This is a special issue on just targets. What is a just target? Is it a matter of ethics, of the law or simply something which deserves to be hit? This special issue of "Cultural Politics" examines the rhetoric and performance of targeting and the ways in which these are justified. The essays range across high-tech weaponry, disease management control, Vietnam War policy, international development strategies, citizenship rights, and the banalization of politics. "Cultural Politics" is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. It explores precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture.Publishing across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the journal welcomes articles from different political positions, cultural approaches and geographical locations. "Cultural Politics" publishes work that analyses how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined and resolved. In so doing, the journal supports the innovative study of established, embryonic, marginalised or unexplored regions of cultural politics.