Preventive force : drones, targeted killing, and the transformation of contemporary warfare /

Preventive force : drones, targeted killing, and the transformation of contemporary warfare / Drones, targeted killing, and the transformation of contemporary warfare edited by Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos. - New York : New York University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: the preventive force continuum / Preventive force: the logic of costs and benefits / Preventive war and its domestic politics / Sovereignty and preventive war in the twenty-first century : a retrospective on eve of destruction : the coming age of preventive war / Why drones are different / The drone : it's in the way that you use it / Drones and the law : why we don't need a new legal framework for targeted killing / Studying drones: the low quality information environment of Pakistan's tribal areas / The contemporary practice of self-defense : evolving toward the use of preemptive or preventive force? / Restricting the preventive use of force : drones, the struggle against non-state actors, and jus ad vim / Drones and dirty hands / Beyond preventive force : just peace as preventive non-intervention / Conclusions / Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos -- Jennifer Taw -- Miroslav Nincic -- Thomas M. Nichols -- Stephan Sonnenberg -- David Glazier -- Daphne Eviatar -- C. Christine Fair -- Avery Plaw and João Franco Reis -- John Emery and Daniel R. Brunstetter -- Ben Jones and John M. Parrish -- Deen Chatterjee -- Jennifer M. Ramos and Kerstin Fisk.



9781479880997


Drone aircraft--Moral and ethical aspects.
Drone aircraft--Government policy--United States.
Preemptive attack (Military science)
Targeted killing--Government policy.
Terrorism--Prevention.
Air warfare--Government policy--Western countries.
War (International law)


Electronic Books.

UG1242 / .P748 2016