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  • Afghanistan and International Relations

    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    This book explores various dimensions of recent international relations scholarship, taking the case of Afghanistan as a point of departure for discussion of these different themes.Contributors investigate a broad range of topics, including international relations theory, the nature of global order, ‘othering’ discourses, diplomacy, international law, the transformation of war, terrorism, gender ... Read more

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  • The Legitimacy of Drone Warfare

    Evaluating Public Perceptions

    This book examines public perceptions of the legitimacy of drones, and how this affects countries’ policies on and the global governance of drone warfare.Scholars recognize that legitimacy is central to countries’ use of drones, and political officials often characterize strikes as legitimate to sustain their use abroad. This book introduces and tests an original middle-range theory that allows ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Drones and Global Order

    Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society

    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This book explores the implications of drone warfare for the legitimacy of global order.The literature on drone warfare has evolved from studying the proliferation of drones, to measuring their effectiveness, to exploring their legal, moral, and ethical impacts. These "three waves" of scholarship do not, however, address the implications of drone warfare for global order. This book fills the gap ... Read more

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    Drone warfare has raised profound ethical and constitutional questions both in the halls of Congress and among the U.S. public. Not since debates over nuclear warfare has American military strategy been the subject of discussion in living rooms, classrooms, and houses of worship. Yet as this groundbreaking new work shows, the full implications of drones have barely been addressed in the media.In a ... Read more

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  • Drone Warfare

    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015One of the most significant and controversial developments in contemporary warfare is the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as drones. In the last decade, US drone strikes have more than doubled and their deployment is transforming the way wars are fought across the globe. But how did drones claim such an important role in modern ... Read more

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  • Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency

    Global events of the early twenty-first century have placed new stress on the relationship among anthropology, governance, and war. Facing prolonged insurgency, segments of the U.S. military have taken a new interest in anthropology, prompting intense ethical and scholarly debate. Inspired by these issues, the essays in Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency consider how anthropologists can, ... Read more

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  • NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020

    Deterrence in the 21st Century—Insights from Theory and Practice

    Edited by Frans Osinga, Tim Sweijs ...
    Series series NL ARMS
    This open access volume surveys the state of the field to examine whether a fifth wave of deterrence theory is emerging. Bringing together insights from world-leading experts from three continents, the volume identifies the most pressing strategic challenges, frames theoretical concepts, and describes new strategies.The use and utility of deterrence in today’s strategic environment is a topic of ... Read more

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  • Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

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    The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges. Many of these have not yet received the serious scholarly examination such worries rightly demand. This volume attempts to fill that gap through sustained analysis of a wide range of specific moral issues that arise from ... Read more

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  • Armed Drones and the Ethics of War

    Military virtue in a post-heroic age

    Series series War, Conflict and Ethics
    This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed unmanned aerial vehicles (‘hunter-killer drones’) in contemporary conflicts.The American way of war is trending away from the heroic and towards the post-heroic, driven by a political preference for air-powered management of strategic risks and the reduction of physical risk to US personnel. The recent use of drones in the War on Terror ... Read more

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  • The Conduct of War in the 21st Century

    Kinetic, Connected and Synthetic

    Series series Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
    This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated.Accelerating societal, economic, political and technological change affects how we prepare, equip and organise for war, as well as how we conduct war – both in its low-tech and high-tech forms, and whether it is with high intensity ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of International Security

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  • The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited

    Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty

    How do we frame decisions to use or abstain from military force? Who should do the killing? Do we need new paradigms to guide the use of force? And what does “victory” mean in contemporary conflict?In many ways, these are timeless questions. But they should be revisited in light of changing circumstances in the twenty-first century. The post–Cold War, post-9/11 world is one of contested and ... Read more

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