Targeted Killing in International Law

Targeted Killing in International Law
Title Targeted Killing in International Law PDF eBook
Author Nils Melzer
Publisher Oxford University Press on Demand
Pages 523
Release 2008-05-29
Genre Law
ISBN 0199533164

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This title examines the international lawfulness of state-sponsored targeted killings in military and police operations. Analysing recent state practice and jurisprudence, it establishes when targeted killing may be considered lawful, and what legal restraints are imposed on the practice in times of war and peace.

Targeted Killing

Targeted Killing
Title Targeted Killing PDF eBook
Author Markus Gunneflo
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 289
Release 2016-05-12
Genre History
ISBN 1107114853

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Explores the emergence of targeted killing in Israeli and US statecraft, and in the international law of force.

Targeted Killings

Targeted Killings
Title Targeted Killings PDF eBook
Author Claire Oakes Finkelstein
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 518
Release 2012-03
Genre Law
ISBN 0199646481

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The controversy surrounding targeted killings represents a crisis of conscience for policymakers, lawyers and philosophers grappling with the moral and legal limits of the war on terror. This text examines the legal and philosophical issues raised by government efforts to target suspected terrorists.

Targeted Killings, Law and Counter-Terrorism Effectiveness

Targeted Killings, Law and Counter-Terrorism Effectiveness
Title Targeted Killings, Law and Counter-Terrorism Effectiveness PDF eBook
Author Ophir Falk
Publisher Routledge
Pages 99
Release 2020-06-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1000079848

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This book examines the permissibility and effectiveness of targeted killing in campaigns against terror. Targeted killing has become a primary counterterrorism measure used by several countries in their confrontation with lethal threats. The practice has been extensively used by the US in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza. Several studies have already explored the difficult balance between achieving security while maintaining the liberties and rights of a country’s civilians. This book goes a step further by seeking to examine whether maintaining those liberties by complying with legal standards and minimizing unintended deaths can be more effective for national security. Using targeted killing applied by Israel, in particular, as well as the United States during the first decade of the twenty-first century as case studies, this book explores that question and ultimately assesses whether compliance with legal standards can strengthen a state in its campaign against terrorism and thus provide stronger security. The book focuses on civilian-related criteria, hypothesizing that minimizing civilian casualties will maximize effectiveness in an asymmetric war setting. The conclusions are not limited to a specific tactic or theater, and if adopted might have far-reaching implications for how asymmetric warfare is strategized. This book will be of much interest to students of counter-terrorism, law, Middle Eastern studies, and security studies.

Targeted Killings and International Law

Targeted Killings and International Law
Title Targeted Killings and International Law PDF eBook
Author Roland Otto
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 675
Release 2011-12-01
Genre Law
ISBN 3642248586

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Existing international law is capable to govern the “war on terror” also in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. The standards generally applicable to targeted killings are those of human rights law. Force may be used in order to address immediate threats, preventive killings are permitted under strict preconditions but targeted killings are prohibited. In the context of armed conflicts, these standards are complemented by international humanitarian law as lex specialis. Civilians may only be targeted while directly taking part in hostilities and posing a threat to the adversary. Also in Israel and the Occupied Territory, these standards apply. Contrary to the Israeli Supreme Court’s view, international humanitarian law is not complemented by human rights law, but human rights law is – to some degree – complemented by international humanitarian law. According to these standards, many killings which would be legal according to the Israeli Supreme Court violate international law.

Targeted Killing

Targeted Killing
Title Targeted Killing PDF eBook
Author Thomas B. Hunter
Publisher Thomas Hunter
Pages 55
Release 2009
Genre Assassination
ISBN 143925205X

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This is an objective, strategic assessment of the role, usefulness, and logistical concerns posed by state-sponsored targeted killing and its overall efficiency in the current war on global terrorism.

Drones and Targeted Killing

Drones and Targeted Killing
Title Drones and Targeted Killing PDF eBook
Author Marjorie (ed.) Cohn
Publisher Interlink Publishing
Pages 288
Release 2014-12-14
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1623710650

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EXPERT ANALYSIS OF AN ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL PRACTICE The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected terrorists; the Obama administration assassinates them. Assassination, or targeted killing, off the battlefield not only causes more resentment against the United States, it is also illegal. In this interdisciplinary collection, human rights and political activists, policy analysts, lawyers and legal scholars, a philosopher, a journalist and a sociologist examine different aspects of the U.S. policy of targeted killing with drones and other methods. It explores the legality, morality and geopolitical considerations of targeted killing and resulting civilian casualties, and evaluates the impact on relations between the United States and affected countries. The book includes the documentation of civilian casualties by the leading non-governmental organization in this area; stories of civilians victimized by drones; an analysis of the first U.S. targeted killing lawsuit by the lawyer who brought the case; a discussion of the targeted killing cases in Israel by the director of PCATI which filed one of the lawsuits; the domestic use of drones; and the immorality of drones using Just War principles. Contributors include: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Phyllis Bennis, Medea Benjamin, Marjorie Cohn, Richard Falk, Tom Hayden, Pardiss Kebriaei, Jane Mayer, Ishai Menuchin, Jeanne Mirer, John Quigley, Dr. Tom Reifer, Alice Ross, Jay Stanley, and Harry Van der Linden.