Goppel Killing Terrorists

A Moral and Legal Analysis
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-027727-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 356 Seiten

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Targeted killing of terrorists has become an established practice in the fight against terrorism. The disturbing consequences of the practice and its increasing political and societal acceptance raise questions as to its justifiability and its place in counter-terrorism.

Anna Goppel explores whether targeted killing of terrorists can be justified, both from a moral and an international legal perspective. She discusses moral and international legal limits to state use of lethal force and argues that the moral principles and the international legal regulations allow for the practice only in very specific, very rare, and rather hypothetical cases. The analysis is based on a thorough discussion of the human right to life, the laws and ethics of war, and the relevant moral and legal arguments. This makes it of particular interest to philosophers and legal theorists interested in terrorism, counter-terrorism, human rights, and the legitimacy of defensive state measures.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries, Legal and Political Experts and Decision-makers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goppel, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgments;5
2;List of abbreviations;11
3;Table of cases;13
4;Table of treaties;17
5;Table of UN documents;20
6;Table of other materials;24
7;Introduction;29
8;Part I: Groundwork;35
8.1;1 Defining ‘targeted killing of terrorists’;37
8.1.1;1.1 Defining ‘targeted killing’;37
8.1.2;1.2 Defining ‘terrorist’;45
8.1.3;1.3 Distinguishable forms and cases;54
8.2;2 Case studies and aspects relevant for the assessment;57
8.2.1;2.1 Case studies;57
8.2.2;2.2 Aspects relevant for the assessment;79
9;Part II: International Legal Justification;83
9.1;3 Human rights;85
9.1.1;3.1 Peacetime;86
9.1.2;3.2 Armed conflicts;97
9.2;4 Legal acts of war;104
9.2.1;4.1 The (in)dependence of jus ad bellum and jus in bello arguments;105
9.2.2;4.2 Lines of argument;107
9.2.3;4.3 International armed conflicts;112
9.2.3.1;4.3.1 Conflicts with terrorists as international armed conflicts: Preconditions;113
9.2.3.2;4.3.2 Imputability of non-state terrorist acts to states;119
9.2.3.3;4.3.3 Conflicts with terrorists as international armed conflicts: Conclusions;135
9.2.3.4;4.3.4 The legality of targeted killing in international armed conflicts;136
9.2.3.5;4.3.5 The status of terrorists and conclusions regarding the legality of targeting and killing them;156
9.2.4;4.4 Non-international armed conflicts;172
9.2.4.1;4.4.1 The legality of targeted killing in non-international armed conflicts;172
9.2.4.2;4.4.2 Conflicts with terrorists as non-international armed conflicts and conclusions regarding the legality of targeted killing of terrorists;176
9.2.5;4.5 Occupied territories and a ‘new’ type of armed conflict;189
9.2.5.1;4.5.1 Occupied territories;190
9.2.5.2;4.5.2 A ‘new’ type of armed conflict;193
9.3;5 National self-defence;195
9.3.1;5.1 Preconditions of the right of national self-defence;197
9.3.2;5.2 Armed attack;198
9.3.3;5.3 Preventive and reactive national self-defence;209
9.3.4;5.4 Proportionality and necessity;223
9.3.5;5.5 Legality of targeted killing in terms of the right of national self-defence;225
9.3.6;5.6 Applicable international law and limits to the use of targeted killing in self-defence;227
10;Part III: Moral Justification;231
10.1;6 The rationale for killing in war;235
10.1.1;6.1 Morally accepted means of warfare;235
10.1.2;6.2 Analogous application of the wartime rationale for killing;250
10.2;7 Revenge and punishment;256
10.2.1;7.1 Revenge;256
10.2.2;7.2 Punishment;258
10.3;8 Consequences (i): Consequentialism as a general moral theory;265
10.4;9 Feindstrafrecht: Forfeiture of the right to life;277
10.5;10 Self-Defence: Limited forfeiture of the right to life;286
10.6;11 Consequences (ii): The situation-dependent justifying force of consequences;316
10.6.1;11.1 ‘Counter-terrorism principles’;317
10.6.2;11.2 Consequences ‘regain’ normative force;324
11;Concluding remarks;336
12;References;340
13;Index;354

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Goppel, University of Zurich, Switzerland.