Drones and international law : a techno-legal machinery / Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mignot-Mahdavi, Rebecca, 1992- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 180.

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 180

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law).

Drone aircraft--Law and legislation.

Drone aircraft.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

With the use of drones in a stable manner by some states active in the war on terror, we are witnessing the pursuit of anywhere and endless wars. This book will catch the attention of readers interested in deciphering key contemporary phenomena, as well as the role of technology and the law in facilitating them.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1 Drone Programs Reconfiguring War, Law, and Societies around Threat Anticipation

1.1 Drone Programs as a Network of Interacting Factors: Law x Technology x Military Strategy x Enemy

1.2 Compiling the Textual, Bureaucratic, and Material Traces of Drone Programs as Techno-Legal Machineries

1.3 A Techno-Legal Machinery

2 Contexts

2.1 Afghanistan: US Drone Operations

2.2 Yemen: US Drone Operations

2.3 Pakistan: US Drone Operations

2.4 Somalia: US Drone Operations

2.5 Iraq and Syria: US and UK Drone Operations

2.6 Libya: US Drone Operations

2.7 G5 Sahel: French Drone Operations

2.8 Common Patterns of Legal Rationale

3 The Institutionalization of Drone Programs

3.1 Transnational Terrorist Networks: Calling for a Systemic Individualization of War

3.2 Drones: The raison d'être and the Stabilizing Force of a Bureaucratic Machinery

3.3 The Normalizing Power of Legal Rationales

3.4 Testing the Institutionalization Hypothesis: The Interchangeability of Bureaucrats

3.5 Concluding Remarks

4 Targeting Hostile Individuals

4.1 The Extension of the Right of Self-Defense Conditions in a Cascade

4.2 Drones: Tailor-Made Machines for Individualized Warfare

4.3 Concluding Remarks

5 Endless Wars

5.1 Infinite Affiliation? The Uncertain Reevaluation of the Conflict Characterization and End of Conflicts

5.2 Infinite Action? Direct Participants in Hostilities Outside Areas and Moments of Ongoing Hostilities

5.3 Infinite Knowledge or Infinite Enmity?

5.4 Concluding Remarks

6 Anywhere Wars

6.1 The Absence of a Geographical Limitation of Conflicts in the Law

6.2 Drone Programs' Targeted and Anywhere Wars: First Encounter with the Perils of Precision.

6.3 The Failed Attempts to Establish a Legal Constraint to the Geography of Drone Wars

6.4 Concluding Remarks

7 Rituals of Sovereignty

7.1 Infiltrating the Bodies of Populations Living under Drones: Extension of the Operating State's Power

7.2 The Law as an Instrument to Tame the ''Other Inside'': States

7.3 The Law as an Instrument to Annihilate the ''Other Outside'': Jihadist Groups

7.4 Concluding Remarks

Epilogue

Bibliography

Scholarly Literature

Official Statements and Discourses

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Russia

France

Netherlands

Official Governmental Documents

War Powers Resolution

Other

Parliamentary Investigations

Parliamentary Debates

Reports and Databases

Databases

Reports and Resolutions

Online Media Sources

Documents and Media of Jihadist Groups

Case Law

International Court of Justice

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

European Court of Human Rights

United States Courts

UK Courts

Norms and Legislation

International

Commentaries of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols

Domestic

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 6, 2023).

ISBN:

1-009-34656-3

1-009-34657-1

1-009-34660-1