Enemies Known and Unknown: Targeted Killings in America's Transnational Wars - Couverture souple

McDonald PH., Jack

 
9780190683078: Enemies Known and Unknown: Targeted Killings in America's Transnational Wars
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0190683074 ISBN 13 : 9780190683078
Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 2017

Synopsis

President Obama was elected on an anti-war platform, yet targeted killings have increased under his command of the 'War on Terror'. The US thinks of itself as upholding the rule of international law and spreading democracy, yet such targeted killings have been widely decried as extra-judicial violations of human rights. This book examines these paradoxes, arguing that they are partially explained by the application of existing legal standards to transnational wars. Critics argue that the kind of war the US claims to be waging - transnational armed conflict - doesn't actually exist. McDonald analyses the concept of transnational war and the legal interpretations that underpin it, and argues that the Obama administration's adherence to the rule of law produces a status quo of violence that is in some ways more disturbing than the excesses of the Bush administration.

America's interpretations of sovereignty and international law shape and constitute war itself, with lethal consequences for the named and anonymous persons that it unilaterally defines as participants. McDonald's analysis helps us understand the social and legal construction of legitimate violence in warfare, and the relationship between legal opinions formed in US government departments and acts of violence half a world away.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jack McDonald is a research associate and teaching fellow at the Centre for Science and Security Studies, in the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press, USA
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0190683074
ISBN 13 
9780190683078
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9781849046442: Enemies Known and Unknown: Targeted Killings in America's Transnational Wars

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ISBN 10 :  1849046441 ISBN 13 :  9781849046442
Editeur : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2017
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