Ethics of Drone Strikes: Restraining Remote-Control Killing

Christian Enemark

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

Ethics of Drone Strikes

Restraining Remote-Control Killing

Christian Enemark

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474483599

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About this book

Explores a variety of ways of thinking ethically about drone violence

Explores how drone violence works in different circumstances, its complexities and various effects, and ways of judging it morally
9 substantive chapters demonstrate different ways of thinking ethically about the current and future use of lethal drone technology
Presents ethical assessments based on ideas within and beyond traditional Just War theory
Addresses the ongoing policy concern that state use of drone violence is sometimes poorly understood and inadequately governed
Incorporates disciplinary perspectives from military ethics, critical military studies, international law, international relations, gender studies, and history
Contributors include established and emerging scholars from a diversity of backgrounds

The violent use of armed, unmanned aircraft (‘drones’) is increasing worldwide, but uncertainty persists about the moral status of remote-control killing and why it should be restrained. Practitioners, observers and potential victims of such violence often struggle to reconcile it with traditional expectations about the nature of war and the risk to combatants. Addressing the ongoing policy concern that state use of drone violence is sometimes poorly understood and inadequately governed, the book’s ethical assessments are not restricted to the application of traditional Just War principles, but also consider the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), virtue ethics, and guiding principles for forceful law-enforcement.

This edited collection brings together nine original contributions by established and emerging scholars, incorporating expertise in military ethics, critical military studies, gender, history, international law and international relations, in order to better assess the multi-faceted relationship between drone violence and justice.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	x
INTRODUCTION Thinking Ethically about Drone Violence Christian Enemark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
ONE Riskless Warfare Revisited: Drones, Asymmetry and the Just Use of Force Robert Sparrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
TWO Jus ad Vim and Drone Warfare: A Classical Just War Perspective Christian Nikolaus Braun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
THREE The Complicated Reality of Drone Strikes for Law Enforcement Max Brookman-Byrne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
FOUR Drone Violence as Wild Justice: Administrative Executions on the Terror Frontier Christian Enemark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
FIVE ‘A New Departure’: Britain’s Lethal Drone Policy and the Range of Justice Christopher J. Fuller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
SIX Ethics for Drone Operators: Rules versus Virtues Peter Olsthoorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
SEVEN Drone Warriors, Revealed Humanity and a Feminist Ethics of Care Lindsay C. Clark and Christian Enemark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
EIGHT Armed Drone Systems: The Ethical Challenge of Replacing Human Control with Increasingly Autonomous Elements Peter Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
NINE Autonomous Armed Drones and the Challenges to Multilateral Consensus on Value-Based Regulation Thompson Chengeta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
CONCLUSION Christian Enemark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 244
Illustrations
- Other: 2 B/W tables
Keywords: Politics

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474483599