Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hasian, Marouf Arif, Jr (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa, AL : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law)
LAW > Military.
Avions de combat sans pilote (Droit international)
Drones > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
Drones > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Drone aircraft > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Drone aircraft > Political aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An argumentation approach to the study of drone warfare and lawfare
  • The genealogical origins of heroic anxieties over asymmetrical warfare, aerial bombing, and the "drone syndrome"
  • The George W. Bush administration and America's adoption of the drones, 2001-2008
  • Preserving one's honor and one's humanity: mediascapes and Pakistani countervisual critiques of the drone wars
  • Humanizing drone pilots, the politics of verticality, and the public legitimation of US drone policies
  • The Obama administration's immunization rhetorics, the "dispositional matrix," and the biopolitical expansion of the drone wars
  • Futuristic drone fantasies, the responsibility to protect (R2P), and drone proliferation.

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