Precision in uncertain times: Targeting as a mode of justification for the use of force

Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy: Pitfalls, Possibilities and Paradoxes

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 206-223

  Colonomos, Ariel ^a,b,c  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b SCIENCES PO   (France)

^c Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203968123     Document Type: Chapter

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