Drones and International Law: A Techno-Legal Machinery

International Law

Drones and International Law: A Techno-Legal Machinery

By Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi
Cambridge University Press July 2023

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ISBN-13
9781009346559
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
July 2023
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Through an analysis of the use of drones, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi explores the ways in which, in the context of counterterrorism, war, technology and the law interact and reshape one another. She demonstrates that drone programs are techno-legal machineries that facilitate and accelerate the emergence of a new kind of warfare. This new model of warfare is individualized and de-materialized in the sense that it focuses on threat anticipation and thus consists in identifying dangerous figures (individualized warfare) rather than responding to acts of hostilities (material warfare). Revolving around threat anticipation, drone wars endure over an extensive timeframe and geographical area, to the extent that the use of drones may even be seen, as appears to be the case for the United States, as part of the normal functioning of the state, with profound consequences for the international legal order.

Table of Contents

1. Drone Programs Reconfiguring War, Law and Societies Around Threat Anticipation
2. Contexts
3. The Institutionalization of Drone Programs
4. Targeting Hostile Individuals
5. Endless Wars
6. Anywhere Wars
7. Rituals of Sovereignty
8. Epilogue
Index
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