Ethics of drone strikes : restraining remote-control killing / edited by Christian Enemark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enemark, Christian, Author.

Contributor:

Enemark, Christian, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drone aircraft--Moral and ethical aspects.

Drone aircraft.

Military ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.) : 2 B/W tables

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION Thinking Ethically about Drone Violence

ONE Riskless Warfare Revisited: Drones, Asymmetry and the Just Use of Force

TWO Jus ad Vim and Drone Warfare: A Classical Just War Perspective

THREE The Complicated Reality of Drone Strikes for Law Enforcement

FOUR Drone Violence as Wild Justice: Administrative Executions on the Terror Frontier

FIVE ‘A New Departure’: Britain’s Lethal Drone Policy and the Range of Justice

SIX Ethics for Drone Operators: Rules versus Virtues

SEVEN Drone Warriors, Revealed Humanity and a Feminist Ethics of Care

EIGHT Armed Drone Systems: The Ethical Challenge of Replacing Human Control with Increasingly Autonomous Elements

NINE Autonomous Armed Drones and the Challenges to Multilateral Consensus on Value-Based Regulation

CONCLUSION

INDEX

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 20, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Ethics of drone strikes.

ISBN:

1-4744-9637-7

1-4744-8359-3

OCLC:

1306539832