Goppel Killing Terrorists

A Moral and Legal Analysis
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-027727-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 356 Seiten

Reihe: Ideen & Argumente

Zielgruppe

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goppel, Anna

Fachgebiete

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

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.