Book contents
- Drones and International Law
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 180
- Drones and International Law
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Drone Programs Reconfiguring War, Law, and Societies around Threat Anticipation
- 2 Contexts
- 3 The Institutionalization of Drone Programs
- 4 Targeting Hostile Individuals
- 5 Endless Wars
- 6 Anywhere Wars
- 7 Rituals of Sovereignty
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
1 - Drone Programs Reconfiguring War, Law, and Societies around Threat Anticipation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2023
- Drones and International Law
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 180
- Drones and International Law
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Drone Programs Reconfiguring War, Law, and Societies around Threat Anticipation
- 2 Contexts
- 3 The Institutionalization of Drone Programs
- 4 Targeting Hostile Individuals
- 5 Endless Wars
- 6 Anywhere Wars
- 7 Rituals of Sovereignty
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Summary
Describing drone programs as a network of interacting and interdependent factors including the contemporary technological capacities of drones, law and military strategy is one of the main aspects of this study. All chapters identify where and how these factors converge or diverge and examine the result of this interaction. This description shows that combat drone technology facilitates anticipatory warfare – the scope of which is indefinite in time and space – and that the law is rearranged around anticipation. Further examining the socio-techno-legal phenomena produced by drone programs, the book explores the long-term effects produced by drone programs over populations living under drones as well as the international legal order. This book can be thought of as an act of compiling the textual, bureaucratic, and material traces of these programs in order to lay bare the infrastructure that is extending warfare in time and space and exacerbating state power.
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- Drones and International LawA Techno-Legal Machinery, pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023