Targeted Killings and International Law With Special Regard to Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law /

• Main Author: Otto, Roland (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, 230
• Subjects: Law.; Human rights.; International humanitarian law.; International criminal law.; International Criminal Law.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.; Human Rights.

Existing international law is capable to govern the “war on terror” also in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. The standards generally applicable to targeted killings are those of human rights law. Force may be used in order to address immediate threats, preventive killings are permitted under str...