The controversy surrounding targeted killings represents a crisis of conscience for policymakers, lawyers and philosophers grappling with the moral and legal li

This title examines the international lawfulness of state-sponsored targeted killings in military and police operations. Analysing recent state practice and jur

This book examines the permissibility and effectiveness of targeted killing in campaigns against terror. Targeted killing has become a primary counterterrorism

Explores the emergence of targeted killing in Israeli and US statecraft, and in the international law of force.

This comprehensive volume addresses the important question of whether and how the current transformation of targeted killing is transforming the global internat