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In recent years State-sponsored assassination, reframed as “targeted killing” in the context of the war on terrorism, is undergoing a normalisation process due to the hybrid and asymmetrical threat of international terrorism. A more recent concern is the extension of the practice to the realm of inter-state relations, as exemplified by the assassination of the Iranian General Soleimani in January 2020. This paper argues that normative transformations in our understanding of concepts such as state sovereignty, alongside the persistence of inclusion/exclusion criteria in international relations, have facilitated the application of techniques and practices developed in response to non-state military threats in inter-state relations.

Targeted killings and the erosion of international norm against assassination