Killing Terrorists a Moral and Legal Analysis - Goppel, Anna 1976- (De Gruyter, 2013)
Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Table of cases; Table of treaties; Table of UN documents; Table of other materials; Introduction; Part I: Groundwork; 1 Defining 'targeted killing of terrorists'; 1.1 Defining 'targeted killing'; 1.2 Defining 'terrorist'; 1.3 Distinguishable forms and cases; 2 Case studies and aspects relevant for the assessment; 2.1 Case studies; 2.2 Aspects relevant for the assessment; Part II: International Legal Justification; 3 Human rights; 3.1 Peacetime; 3.2 Armed conflicts; 4 Legal acts of war; 4.1 The (in)dependence of jus ad bellum and jus in bello arguments
4.2 Lines of argument4.3 International armed conflicts; 4.3.1 Conflicts with terrorists as international armed conflicts: Preconditions; 4.3.2 Imputability of non-state terrorist acts to states; 4.3.3 Conflicts with terrorists as international armed conflicts: Conclusions; 4.3.4 The legality of targeted killing in international armed conflicts; 4.3.5 The status of terrorists and conclusions regarding the legality of targeting and killing them; 4.4 Non-international armed conflicts; 4.4.1 The legality of targeted killing in non-international armed conflicts
4.4.2 Conflicts with terrorists as non-international armed conflicts and conclusions regarding the legality of targeted killing of terrorists4.5 Occupied territories and a 'new' type of armed conflict; 4.5.1 Occupied territories; 4.5.2 A 'new' type of armed conflict; 5 National self-defence; 5.1 Preconditions of the right of national self-defence; 5.2 Armed attack; 5.3 Preventive and reactive national self-defence; 5.4 Proportionality and necessity; 5.5 Legality of targeted killing in terms of the right of national self-defence
5.6 Applicable international law and limits to the use of targeted killing in self-defencePart III: Moral Justification; 6 The rationale for killing in war; 6.1 Morally accepted means of warfare; 6.2 Analogous application of the wartime rationale for killing; 7 Revenge and punishment; 7.1 Revenge; 7.2 Punishment; 8 Consequences (i): Consequentialism as a general moral theory; 9 Feindstrafrecht: Forfeiture of the right to life; 10 Self-Defence: Limited forfeiture of the right to life; 11 Consequences (ii): The situation-dependent justifying force of consequences
11.1 'Counter-terrorism principles'11.2 Consequences 'regain' normative force; Concluding remarks; References; Index