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Debating Targeted Killing - Counter-Terrorism or Extrajudicial Execution? (Hardcover)
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Debating Targeted Killing - Counter-Terrorism or Extrajudicial Execution? (Hardcover)
Series: Debating Ethics
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Known terrorists are often targeted for death by the governments of
Israel and the United States. Several thousand have been killed by
drones or by operatives on the ground in the last twenty years. Is
this form of killing justified, when hundreds or thousands of lives
are possibly at risk at the hands of a known terrorist? Is there
anything about it that should disturb us? Ethically-sound and
practical answers to these questions are more difficult to come by
than it might seem. Renowned political theorists Jeremy Waldron and
Tamar Meisels here defend two competing positions on the legitimacy
of targeted killing as used in counterterrorism strategy in this
riveting and essential for-and-against book. The volume begins with
a joint introduction, briefly setting out the terms of discussion,
and presenting a short historical overview of the practice: what
targeted killing is, and how it has been used in which conflicts
and by whom. It then hones in on killings themselves and the
element of targeting. The authors tackle difficult and infinitely
complex subjects, for example the similarities and differences
between targeted killing of terrorists and ordinary killings in
combat, and they ask whether targeted killing can be regarded as a
law enforcement strategy, or as a hybrid between combat and law
enforcement. They compare the practice of targeted killing with
assassination and the use of death squads. And they consider the
likelihood that targeted killing has been or will be abused against
insurgents, criminals, or political opponents. Meisels analyzes the
assassination by Israeli operatives of nuclear scientists working
for regimes hostile to Israel. Meisels and Waldron carefully
consider whether this sort of killing can ever be justified in
terms of the danger it, in theory, averts. The conclusions drawn
are at once as surprising as they are insightful, cautioning us
against a world in which targeted killing is the norm as it
proliferates rapidly. This is essential reading not only for
students of political and war theory and military personnel, but
for anyone interested in or concerned by the future of targeted
killing.
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