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

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Legitimacy as a Target -- SECTION I THROUGH THE LENS OF LEGALITY-FORMAL VALIDITY -- 1 Jus ad Bellum: Crossing Borders to Wage War against Individuals -- 2 Who Can Be Killed?: Legal Targets in Non-International Armed Conflicts -- 3 Boundaries of the Battlefield: The Geographical Scope of the Laws of War -- 4 Lethal Force and Drones: The Human Rights Question -- SECTION II   THROUGH THE LENS OF MORALITY-AXIOLOGICAL VALIDITY -- 5 Old Ideas in New Skins: The Sixteenth Century Debate on Artillery -- 6 The Question of "Imminence": A Historical View on Anticipatory Attacks -- 7 Correcting the Record: Civilians, Proportionality, and the Jus ad Vim -- 8 From Just War to Clean War: The Impact of Modern Technology on Military Ethics -- SECTION III THROUGH THE LENS OF EFFICACY-EMPIRICAL VALIDITY -- 9 Data on Leadership Targeting and Potential Impacts for Communal Support -- 10 Tactical Efficacy: "Notorious" UCAVs and Lawfare -- 11 Strategic Efficacy: The Opinion of Security and a Dearth of Data -- 12 Systemic Efficacy: "Potentially Shattering Consequences for International Law" -- SECTION IV CREATING A DRONE COURT-INTEGRATION VIA A POLICY PROPOSAL -- 13 Establishment of a Drone Court: A Necessary Restraint on Executive Power -- 14 Can UCAVs be Reconciled with Liberal Governance?: The Substantive Law of a Drone Court -- Conclusion: Defending Legitimacy -- Index

Unmanned combat air vehicles--i.e. 'drones'--have become a prominent instrument in US efforts to counter objective (and subjective) cross-border terrorist threats with lethal force. As a result, critical questions abound on the legitimacy of their use. In a series of multidisciplinary essays by scholars with extensive knowledge of international norms, this book explores the question of legitimacy through the conceptual lenses of legality, morality and efficacy, and then closes with the consideration of a policy proposal aimed at incorporating all three indispensable elements. This book seeks to come to grips with the new reality of drone warfare by exploring if it can be used to preserve, rather than eat away at, legitimacy. -- Back cover.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction Legitimacy as a Target -- Section I Through the Lens of Legality -Formal Validity -- 1 Jus ad Bellum: Crossing Borders to Wage War against Individuals -- 2 Who Can Be Killed?: Legal Targets in Non-International Armed Conflicts -- 3 Boundaries of the Battlefield: The Geographical Scope of the Laws of War -- 4 Lethal Force and Drones: The Human Rights Question -- Section II Through the Lens of Morality -Axiological Validity