Targeted Killing
A Legal and Political History
Seiten
2018
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-53533-6 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-53533-6 (ISBN)
This critical historical account of the emergence of the fiercely contested practice of targeted killing will be of great interest to students, graduates and researchers who take an interest in targeted killing, be it primarily from the perspective of politics, domestic or international law.
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 use of force in international law, the law of belligerent occupation, the law of targeting and human rights law. The distinctive nature of Israeli and US targeted killing is analysed in terms of the compulsion of legality characteristic of the liberal constitutional state, a compulsion that demands the ability to distinguish between legal 'targeted killing' and extra-legal 'political assassination'. The effect is a highly legalized framework for the extraterritorial killing of designated terrorists that may significantly affect the international law of force.
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 use of force in international law, the law of belligerent occupation, the law of targeting and human rights law. The distinctive nature of Israeli and US targeted killing is analysed in terms of the compulsion of legality characteristic of the liberal constitutional state, a compulsion that demands the ability to distinguish between legal 'targeted killing' and extra-legal 'political assassination'. The effect is a highly legalized framework for the extraterritorial killing of designated terrorists that may significantly affect the international law of force.
Markus Gunneflo is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in public international law at Lunds Universitet, Sweden, where he researches the theory and history of international law, particularly in the areas of the use of force, humanitarian law, human rights and migration.
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; 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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.10.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 470 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-107-53533-6 / 1107535336 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-107-53533-6 / 9781107535336 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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