Full Description
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.
Contents
Notes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Thinking Ethically about Drone Violence - Christian Enemark1. Riskless Warfare Revisited: Drones, Asymmetry, and the Just Use of Force - Robert Sparrow2. Jus ad Vim and Drone Warfare: A Classical Just War Perspective - Christian Nikolaus Braun3. The Complicated Reality of Drone Strikes for Law Enforcement - Max Brookman-Byrne4. OPEN ACCESS Drone Violence as Wild Justice: Administrative Executions on the Terror Frontier - Christian Enemark 5. 'A new departure': Britain's Lethal Drone Policy and the Range of Justice - Christopher J. Fuller6. Ethics for Drone Operators: Rules versus Virtues - Peter Olsthoorn7. OPEN ACCESS Drone Warriors, Revealed Humanity, and a Feminist Ethics of Care - Lindsay C. Clark and Christian Enemark 8. Armed Drone Systems: the Ethical Challenge of Replacing Human Control with Increasingly Autonomous Elements - Peter Lee 9. OPEN ACCESS Autonomous Armed Drones and the Challenges to Multilateral Consensus on Value-Based Regulation - Thompson Chengeta Conclusion - Christian EnemarkIndex
