A. State Practice and Legal Doctrine 1
Ⅰ. The Notion of'Targeted Killing' 3
Ⅱ. Current Trend towards Legitimization 9
Ⅲ. Targeted Killing in Contemporary Legal Doctrine 44
Ⅳ. The Analysis 71
B. Law Enforcement 83
Ⅴ. The Paradigm of Law Enforcement 85
Ⅵ. Law Enforcement and the Conventional Human Right to Life 91
Ⅶ. Law Enforcement and the Protection of Life under International Humanitarian Law 140
Ⅷ. Law Enforcement and the Non-Conventional Human Right to Life 177
Ⅸ. Permissibility of Targeted Killing as a Method of Law Enforcement 222
C. Hostilities 241
Ⅹ. The Paradigm of Hostilities 243
Ⅺ. The Principle of Distinction under International Humanitarian Law 300
Ⅻ. Means and Methods in the Conduct of Hostilities 367
ⅩⅢ. Human Rights Law and the Paradigm of Hostilities 382
ⅩⅣ. Permissibility of Targeted Killing as a Method of Conducting Hostilities 394
D. Conclusions 421
ⅩⅤ. Comparative Conclusions 423
ⅩⅥ. Epliogue: Targeted Killing and the Rule of Law 430
APPENDIX: Selected Case Descriptions 436
Bibliography 445
Index 459