Drones and Targeted Killing
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Drones and Targeted Killing

Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Drones and Targeted Killing

Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues

About this book

EXPERT ANALYSIS OF AN ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL PRACTICE The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected terrorists; the Obama administration assassinates them. Assassination, or targeted killing, off the battlefield not only causes more resentment against the United States, it is also illegal. In this interdisciplinary collection, human rights and political activists, policy analysts, lawyers and legal scholars, a philosopher, a journalist and a sociologist examine different aspects of the U.S. policy of targeted killing with drones and other methods. It explores the legality, morality and geopolitical considerations of targeted killing and resulting civilian casualties, and evaluates the impact on relations between the United States and affected countries. The book includes the documentation of civilian casualties by the leading non-governmental organization in this area; stories of civilians victimized by drones; an analysis of the first U.S. targeted killing lawsuit by the lawyer who brought the case; a discussion of the targeted killing cases in Israel by the director of PCATI which filed one of the lawsuits; the domestic use of drones; and the immorality of drones using Just War principles. Contributors include: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Phyllis Bennis, Medea Benjamin, Marjorie Cohn, Richard Falk, Tom Hayden, Pardiss Kebriaei, Jane Mayer, Ishai Menuchin, Jeanne Mirer, John Quigley, Dr. Tom Reifer, Alice Ross, Jay Stanley, and Harry Van der Linden.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the author
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Foreword
  9. chap1 Introduction
  10. Part I The uniTed sTATes And drone WArfAre
  11. 2 Why Drones Are More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons
  12. 3 Drones and Assassination in the US’s Permanent War
  13. 4 The Predator War
  14. Part II Targeted Killing And “Collateral Damage”
  15. 5 A Global Assassination Program
  16. 6 The Grim Toll Drones Take on Innocent Lives
  17. 7 Documenting Civilian Casualties
  18. Part III Illegal And Immoral
  19. 8 US Policy of Targeted Killing With Drones: Illegal
  20. 9 Drone Warfare and Just War Theory
  21. 10 Al-Aulaqi v. Obama: Targeted Killing Goes to Court
  22. 11 The Case of Israel: A Covert Policy of Political
  23. Part IV The Future Of Targeted Killing
  24. 12 Drone Strike Blowback
  25. 13 Surveillance Drones in America
  26. 14 To Stop the Drones?
  27. Appendix A
  28. Appendix B
  29. About the contributors