Chapter

Systemic efficacy : “potentially shattering consequences for international law”

Robert Kolb

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

Farnham ; Burlington : Ashgate, 2015

p. 299-320

English

International jurist Antonio Cassese identified “potentially shattering consequences for international law” in the UNSC Resolutions passed in the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11. His concern was that they introduced a disruption of crucial legal categories, and this disquiet becomes amplified with the use of drones employing lethal force across international borders. This chapter will address what this strain means to the global structure as we know it. In other words, even if the use of drones were shown to be tactically and strategically efficacious, the resulting damage to the international system could negate such theoretical gains. Under discussion in this chapter is the history of the contemporary global system and the disturbance caused between the bodies of international law that come into play with such action.

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