Targeted Killing: A Legal and Political History

International Law

Targeted Killing: A Legal and Political History

By Markus Gunneflo
Cambridge University Press May 2016

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ISBN-13
9781107114852
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
May 2016
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Looking beyond the events of the second intifada and 9/11, this book reveals how targeted killing is intimately embedded in both Israeli and US statecraft and in the problematic relationship between sovereign authority and lawful violence underpinning the modern state system.

It details the legal and political issues raised in targeted killing as it has emerged in practice, including questions of domestic constitutional authority, the norms on the use of force in international law, the law of belligerent occupation, the law of targeting and human rights.

The distinctive nature of Israeli and US targeted killing is analysed in terms of the compulsion of legality characteristic of liberal democracies, a compulsion that demands the ability to distinguish between legal 'targeted killing' and extra-legal 'political assassination'.

The effect is a highly legalised framework for the extraterritorial killing of designated terrorists that may significantly affect the international law of force.

Table of Contents

1. Targeted killing in the history of Israel, the United States and international law
2. The emergence of targeted killing in the Israeli-Palestinian Common Entrapment of Enmity Public Committee Against Torture v. the Government of Israel
3. The emergence of targeted killing in an American homeland which is the planet
4. Targeted killing and the struggle over international law's sanctioning of lethal force
5. The law of targeted killing.
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