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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 Joćo Franco Reis --  John Emery and Daniel R. Brunstetter --  Ben Jones and John M. Parrish --  Deen Chatterjee --  Jennifer M. Ramos and Kerstin Fisk. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781479880997 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Drone aircraft--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Drone aircraft--Government policy--United States.<br/>Preemptive attack (Military science)<br/>Targeted killing--Government policy.<br/>Terrorism--Prevention.<br/>Air warfare--Government policy--Western countries.<br/>War (International law)
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>UG1242  / .P748 2016