President Obama was elected on an anti-war platform, yet targeted
killings have increased under his command of the 'War on Terror'.
The US thinks of itself as upholding the rule of international law
and spreading democracy, yet such targeted killings have been
widely decried as extra-judicial violations of human rights. This
book examines these paradoxes, arguing that they are partially
explained by the application of existing legal standards to
transnational wars. Critics argue that the kind of war the US
claims to be waging - transnational armed conflict - doesn't
actually exist. McDonald analyses the concept of transnational war
and the legalinterpretations that underpin it, and argues that the
Obama administration's adherence to therule of law produces a
status quo of violence that is in some ways more disturbing than
the excessesof the Bush administration.America's interpretations of
sovereignty and international law shape and constitute war itself,
with lethal consequences for the named and anonymous persons that
it unilaterally defines as participants.McDonald's analysis helps
us understand the social and legal construction of legitimate
violence in warfare, and the relationship between legal opinions
formed in US government departments and acts of violence half a
world away.
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