1st Edition
Ethics, Law and Justifying Targeted Killings The Obama Administration at War
By Jack McDonald
Copyright 2017
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the normative debates around the American use of targeted killings.
It questions whether the Obama administration’s defence of its use of targeted killings is cohesive or hypocritical. In doing so, the book departs from the disciplinary purpose of international law, constitutional law and the just war tradition and instead examines discipline-specific defences of targeted... Read more
Preface
1. Justifying Targeted Killings
2. American Targeted Killings
3. War and Law Enforcement
4. International Law
5. Constitutional Protections
6. Normative Principles of War
7. Conclusion
Biography
Jack McDonald is a teaching and research fellow at the Centre for Science & Security Studies, part of the Department of War Studies at King's College London, and has a PhD in War Studies.
