Drones, Targeted Killings and the Politics of Law

Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 44 (2):95-99 (2015)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Drones, Targeted Killings and the Politics of Law In this article I discuss one of the latest reports on the practice of drone warfare, the UN SRCT Drone Inquiry. I use the report to illustrate some of the specific forms of legal politics that surround drone warfare today. In the first place, I focus on the tension between the capacity of drones to target more precisely and the never-ending critique that drone warfare victimizes civilian populations. Secondly, I focus on the call for more objective legal rules that can be found in many debates on drone warfare.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.5553/njlp/221307132015044009001

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive

    This entry is not archived by us. If you are the author and have permission from the publisher, we recommend that you archive it. Many publishers automatically grant permission to authors to archive pre-prints. By uploading a copy of your work, you will enable us to better index it, making it easier to find.

    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 106,314

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Arguments against Drone Warfare with a Focus on the Immorality of Remote Control Killing and "Deadly Surveillance".Harry van der Linden - 2016 - Radical Philosophy Review 19 (2):331-358.
Drone culture: perspectives on autonomy and anonymity.Garfield Benjamin - 2022 - AI and Society 37 (2):635-645.
Armed Drone Warfare.Robert Paul Churchill - 2016 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 23 (2):71-81.
Moralities of drone violence.Christian Enemark - 2023 - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
The Use of Lethal Drones in the War on Terror.David K. Chan - 2018 - In David Boonin, Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 135-145.
The Future of Drone Use: Opportunities and Threats from Ethical and Legal Perspectives.Bart Custers (ed.) - 2016 - T.M.C. Asser Press.
Naked Soldiers, Naked Terrorists, and the Justifiability of Drone Warfare.Daniel Restrepo - 2019 - Social Theory and Practice 45 (1):103-126.
From Threat to Walking Corpse: Spatial Disruption and the Phenomenology of ‘Living Under Drones.Sabeen Ahmed - 2018 - Theory and Event 21 (2):382-410.
The Ethics of Current Drone Policy.Steven P. Lee - 2016 - International Journal of Applied Philosophy 30 (1):115-132.
Drones, Bodies, Necropolitics.Fahim Amir - 2023 - Filozofski Vestnik 44 (2):343-66.

Analytics

Added to PP
2016-06-30

Downloads
17 (#1,253,405)

6 months
1 (#1,595,537)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Wouter Werner
VU University Amsterdam

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references