Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: For, Tamar Meisels
Chapter 3: Against, Jeremy Waldron
Chapter 4: A Reply to Jeremy Waldron, Tamar Meisels
Chapter 5: A Reply to Tamar Meisels, Jeremy Waldron
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Tamar Meisels is a political theorist, associate professor at The
School of Political Science, Government and IR, Tel-Aviv
University. She is the author of Territorial Rights (Springer, 2005
and 2009), The Trouble with Terror: Liberty, Security and the
Response to Terrorism (Cambridge University Press, 2008),
Contemporary Just War: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2017), and
co-editor (with Michael L. Gross) of Soft
War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict (Cambridge University Press,
2017).
Jeremy Waldron is University Professor and Professor of Law at New
York University. His recent books include Torture, Terror and
Trade-offs: Philosophy for the White House (Oxford, 2010), The Harm
in Hate Speech (Harvard University Press, 2012), Political Theory
(Harvard University Press, 2016), and One Another's Equals: The
Basis of Human Equality (Harvard University Press, 2017). Professor
Waldron was elected to the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences in 1998 and, in 2015, to the American
Philosophical Society (which also awarded him its Phillips Prize
for Lifetime Achievement in Jurisprudence). He has been a Fellow of
the British Academy since 2011.
"In this important volume in the Oxford series 'Debating Ethics,'
Meisels (School of Political Science, Government, and International
Relations, Tel Aviv Univ.) and Waldron (New York Univ.) have done
an admirable job of foregrounding the practical and moral
conundrums associated with the practice known as 'targeted
killing.' Although both authors draw on examples from history, much
of their discussion focuses on recent instances in the context of
ongoing Middle
East conflicts and the 'war on terror.' Both authors provide
well-documented evidence and extensive, clearly presented
argumentation in support of their positions, presented in the form
of a
debateâClearly, the debate about this controversial practice of
powerful states remains important and unresolved. Consequently, the
book will certainly be a useful jumping-off point to stimulate
discussion, not only in the classroom but elsewhere as
well...Summing Up: Recommended. All readers." -- CHOICE
"Targeted killings, as illustrated by President Trump's decision to
assassinate Iran's most senior military official, are an
increasingly common phenomenon. When apparently carried out by
Russia on UK territory, they generate widespread outrage. But when
the American and Israeli governments set precedents that risk
dramatically weakening the constraints on official murder, many
commentators approve. While avoiding a slugfest, Meisels and
Waldron succeed in
articulating the strongest possible cases for and against this
lamentable practice. Sadly, it seems likely that their
sophisticated, illuminating and highly readable exchange will need
to be widely read
in the years ahead." -- Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on
extreme poverty and human rights, and John Norton Pomeroy Professor
of Law, New York University
"The action of targeted killing brings forth many difficult
questions. My personal perspective is both legal and judicial. I
wrote one of the few opinions which dealt with the practice of
targeted killings. I am convinced that if this book had been
available to me while writing that opinion, I would have written a
deeper, more conscious opinion. Would I have changed the analysis
of my opinion, or the result I had arrived at? The answer to that
must be deduced
by the reader of this important and in-depth volume, themselves."
-- Justice Aharon Barak, Professor of Law, Interdisciplinary Center
Herzliya
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