Introduction&Andrew Altman 1
Ⅰ THE CHANGING FACE OF WAR:TARGETING NON-COMBATANTS 31
1. Rebutting the Civilian Presumption: Playing Whack-A-Mole Without a Mallet?&Colonel Mark “Max”Maxwell 31
2. Targeting Co-belligerents&Jens David Ohlin 60
3. Can Just War Theory Justify Targeted Killing? Three Possible Models&Daniel Statman 90
4. Justifying Targeted Killing With a Neutral Principle?&Jeremy Waldron 112
Ⅱ NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS: LAW ENFORCEMENT OR WAR? 135
5. Targeted Killing: Murder, Combat or Law Enforcement?&Jeff McMahan 135
6. Targeted Killing as Preemptive Action&Claire Finkelstein 156
7. The Privilege of Belligerency and Formal Declarations of War&Richard V. Meyer 183
Ⅲ TARGETED KILLING AND SELF-DEFENSE 223
8. Going Medieval: Targeted Killing, Self-Defense and the Jus ad Bellum Regime&Craig Martin 223
9. Imminence in Justified Targeted Killing&Russell Christopher 253
10. Defending Defensive Targeted Killings&Phillip Montague 285
Ⅳ EXERCISING JUDGMENT IN TARGETED KILLING DECISIONS 303
11. The Importance of Criteria-based Reasoning in Targeted Killing Decisions&Amos N. Guiora 303
12. Are Targeted Killings Unlawful? A Case Study in Empirical Claims Without Empirical Evidence&Gregory S. McNeal 326
13. Operation Neptune Spear: Was Killing Bin Laden a Legitimate Military Objective?&Kevin H. Govern 347
14. Efficiency in Bello and ad Bellum: Making the Use of Force Too Easy?&Kenneth Anderson 374
Ⅴ UTILITARIAN TRADE-OFFS AND DEONTOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS 403
15. Targeted Killing in War and Peace: A Philosophical Analysis&Fernando R. Teson 403
16. Targeted Killings and the Morality of Hard Choices&Michael S. Moore 434
17. Targeted Killing and the Strategic Use of Self-Defense&Leo Katz 467
Index 481