Preventive force
Subtitle: drones, targeted killing, and the transformation of contemporary warfare
By: edited by Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781479857531; 9781479857654
Subjects: Preemptive attack (Military science); Moral and ethical aspects; Government policy; Terrorism; Military policy; War (International law); Targeted killing; Drone aircraft; Air warfare; Prevention
Other titles: Drones, targeted killing, and the transformation of contemporary warfare
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the preventive force continuum / Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos; title: Preventive force: the logic of costs and benefits / Jennifer Taw; title: Preventive war and its domestic politics / Miroslav Nincic; title: Sovereignty and preventive war in the twenty-first century : a retrospective on eve of destruction : the coming age of preventive war / Thomas M. Nichols; title: Why drones are different / Stephan Sonnenberg; title: The drone : it's in the way that you use it / David Glazier; title: Drones and the law : why we don't need a new legal framework for targeted killing / Daphne Eviatar; title: Studying drones: the low quality information environment of Pakistan's tribal areas / C. Christine Fair; title: The contemporary practice of self-defense : evolving toward the use of preemptive or preventive force? / Avery Plaw and João Franco Reis; title: Restricting the preventive use of force : drones, the struggle against non-state actors, and jus ad vim / John Emery and Daniel R. Brunstetter; title: Drones and dirty hands / Ben Jones and John M. Parrish; title: Beyond preventive force : just peace as preventive non-intervention / Deen Chatterjee; title: Conclusions / Jennifer M. Ramos and Kerstin Fisk.