Precision Strike Warfare and International Intervention

Strategic, Ethico-Legal and Decisional Implications
Herausgeber: Aaronson, Mike; Rauxloh, Regina; Dyson, Tom; Aslam, Wali

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores whether the new capabilities made possible by precision-strike technologies are reshaping approaches to international intervention.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780415730204
• ISBN-10: 0415730201
• Artikelnr.: 39595253

Autorenporträt

Mike Aaronson is the Executive Director of cii - the Centre for International Intervention - at the University of Surrey. He is a former chief executive of Save the Children UK and was previously a British diplomat. Wali Aslam is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bath. He is the author of The United States and Great Power Responsibility in International Society: Drones, rendition and invasion (Routledge, 2013). Tom Dyson is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is the author of European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and IR Theory (2013, with Theodore Konstadinides). Regina E. Rauxloh is Senior Lecturer at the Southampton School of Law, Southampton University. She is the author of Plea Bargaining in National and International Law (Routledge, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Strategic and Foreign Policy Drivers and Consequences Preface:
Precision Strike Capabilities: Political and Strategic Consequences, Jamie
Shea Introduction, Precision Strike Warfare and International Intervention:
Strategic, Ethico-Legal and Decisional Implications, Mike Aaronson and Tom
Dyson 1. Dealing with Risk: Precision Strikes and Interventionism in the
Obama Administration, Andre Barrinha and Luis da Vinha 2. European
Precision Strike Capabilities: A Neoclassical Realist Perspective, Tom
Dyson 3. The Global Diffusion of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or "drones",
Ulrike Esther Franke 4. The Political Appropriation of Casualties in Threat
Construction: The Case of US Drone Strikes in Pakistan, Wali Aslam Part II:
Legal and Moral Implications 5. Covert Drone Strikes and the Fiction of
Zero Civilian Casualties, Chris Woods 6. Drones: Degrading Moral Thresholds
for the Use of Force and the Calculations of Proportionality, Conway
Waddington 7. Terrorising Terrorists: The Jus ad bellum of Drone Operations
in Pakistan, Tobias Ruettershof 8. UAV for R2P? Exploring the Legitimacy
and Effectiveness of Drones, Ina Wiesner Part III: Strategic and Foreign
Policy Drivers and Consequences 9. Psychological Perspectives on Military
Decisions to Deploy Precision Strike Capabilities, Adrian Banks and Mandeep
Dhami 10. Unmanned Weapons Systems and Just Wars: The Psychological
Dimensions, Nicola Power, Laurence Alison and Jason Ralph 11. Keeping the
Human "in the loop": A Qualified Defence of Autonomous Weapons Systems,
Alex Leveringhaus and Tjerk de Greef Conclusion: Precision Strikes - the
Way Forward, Wali Aslam and Regina Rauxloh