Drone warfare and lawfare in a post-heroic age / Marouf Hasian Jr.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hasian, Marouf Arif, Jr
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, AL : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]
Series:Rhetoric, law, and the humanities.
Subjects:
Drone aircraft > Political aspects > United States.
Drone aircraft > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law)
Drönare (luftfarkost)
Krigföring > etiska aspekter.
Luftkrigföring.
Försvarspolitik.
Förenta staterna.
Lawfare (Transnational litigation for political purposes)
Physical Description:269 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • An argumentation approach to the study of drone warfare and lawfare
  • The genealogical origins of heroic anxieties over asymmetrical warfare, aerial bombing, and the "drone syndrome"
  • The George W. Bush administration and America's adoption of the drones, 2001-2008
  • Preserving one's honor and one's humanity: mediascapes and Pakistani countervisual critiques of the drone wars
  • Humanizing drone pilots, the politics of verticality, and the public legitimation of US drone policies
  • The Obama administration's immunization rhetorics, the "dispositional matrix," and the biopolitical expansion of the drone wars
  • Futuristic drone fantasies, the responsibility to protect (R2P), and drone proliferation.