Preventive use of force and preventive killings: moves into a different legal order.

According to the traditional view, preventive uses of force between states and preventive killings of individuals, to be legal, have individual basic requirement in common, namely, the requirement of the immediacy of the threat pos The U National Security Strategy of September 2002 the so-called Bush doctrine, and the so-called Israeli policy of "targeted killing" challenge precisely this core requirement for the preventive use of force against states and against individuals. The author argues that abandonment of the traditional standard is unwarranted, smooth when taking into account the fresh kinds of threats that have arisen in novel times. Such abandonment, ...