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  title info:
    title: Debating targeted killing
    sub title: counter-terrorism or extrajudicial execution?
  name:
    name part: Meisels, Tamar
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Waldron, Jeremy
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Case studies
  genre: Case studies.
  genre: Études de cas.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 volume).
  abstract: "In this "For & Against" book, Jeremy Waldron and Tamar Meisels defend competing positions on the legitimacy of targeted killing. The volume begins with a joint introduction, briefly setting out the terms of discussion, and presenting a short historical overview of the practice --i.e., what is targeted killing, and how has it been used in which conflicts and by whom. The debate opens with Meisels' defense of targeted killing as a legitimate and desirable defensive anti-terrorism strategy, in keeping with both just war theory and international law. Meisels unreservedly defends the named killing of irregular combatants, most notably terrorists, during armed conflict. Additionally, she offers a possible moral justification for rare instances of assassination outside that framework, specifically with reference to recent cases of nuclear scientists developing weapons of mass destruction for the Iranian and Syrian governments The debate continues with Waldron's arguments focusing on the dangers and the inherent wrongness of governments' having the right to maintain death lists-lists of named individuals who are to be hunted down and killed. Waldron notes the many differences between individualized targeting and ordinary combat and he resists the attempt to assimilate targeted killing to killings in combat. Waldron also cautions us to consider carefully what a world of targeted killings will be like, the many abuses it is liable to, and why we should be very cautious, morally and strategically, in our thinking about it"--
  table of contents: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. For -- 3. Against -- 4. Reply to Professor Waldron -- 5. Reply to Professor Meisels -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Tamar Meisels and Jeremy Waldron.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Targeted killing
  subject:
    topic: Targeted killing
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Targeted killing
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    topic: Prevention
  subject:
    topic: Assassinat ciblé
  subject:
    topic: Assassinat ciblé
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Assassinat ciblé
    topic: Aspect moral
  subject:
    topic: Terrorisme
    topic: Prévention
  subject:
    topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Political
  subject:
    topic: Targeted killing
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    topic: Prevention
  classification: HV6431 .M4345 2020
  classification: 172/.4
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200312
    record change date: 20260319182135.0
    record identifier: in00005718581
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng