Debating targeted killing : counter-terrorism or extrajudicial execution? / Tamar Meisels and Jeremy Waldron.

Debating targeted killing : counter-terrorism or extrajudicial execution? / Tamar Meisels and Jeremy Waldron.

9780190906955 (electronic book)

New York : Oxford university press, 2020.

English

1 online resource (320 pages).

HV6431 .M4345 2020

172.4

In this "for and against" book, Jeremy Waldron and Tamar Meisels defend competing positions on the legitimacy of targeted killing. The volume begins with a joint introduction, briefly setting out the terms of discussion, and presenting a short historical overview of the practice - i.e. what is targeted killing, and how has it been used in which conflicts and by whom. The debate opens with Meisels' defense of targeted killing as a legitimate and desirable defensive anti-terrorism strategy, in keeping with both just war theory and international law. Meisels unreservedly defends the named killing of irregular combatants, most notably terrorists, during armed conflict.

In this "for and against" book, Jeremy Waldron and Tamar Meisels defend competing positions on the legitimacy of targeted killing. The volume begins with a joint introduction, briefly setting out the terms of discussion, and presenting a short historical overview of the practice - i.e. what is targeted killing, and how has it been used in which conflicts and by whom. The debate opens with Meisels' defense of targeted killing as a legitimate and desirable defensive anti-terrorism strategy, in keeping with both just war theory and international law. Meisels unreservedly defends the named killing of irregular combatants, most notably terrorists, during armed conflict.

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