Legitimacy and drones : investigating the legality, morality and efficacy of UCAVs / ed. by Steven J. Barela

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Document type:

Book

Subtype of document:

Recueil

Title:

Legitimacy and drones : investigating the legality, morality and efficacy of UCAVs

Author zone:

ed. by Steven J. Barela

Editor:

Farnham ; Burlington : Ashgate, 2015

Physical description:

XVIII, 414 p. : graph., ill., tabl. ; 24 cm

Series:

Emerging technologies, ethics and international affairs

ISBN:

978-1-4724-4687-9

Languages:

English

General Note:

Index

Abstract:

Unmanned combat air vehicles, or in common parlance “drones”, have become a prominent instrument in US efforts to counter an objective (and subjective) cross-border terrorist threat with lethal force. As a result, critical questions abound on the legitimacy of their use. In a series of multidisciplinary essays by scholars with an extensive knowledge of international norms, this book explores the question of legitimacy through the conceptual lenses of legality, morality and efficacy; it then closes with the consideration of a policy proposal aimed at incorporating all three indispensable elements.

Authors:

Barela, Steven J. (editor)

Keyword in English:

MEANS OF COMBAT

IHL (INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW)

ETHICS

Keyword in French: