Armed Drones and Globalization in the Asymmetric War on Terror: Challenges for the Law of Armed Conflict and Global Political Economy

ISBN-13: 9780367593650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 342 str.

Fred Aja Agwu

Opis

ithin the context of IHL this book appraises the drone as a weapon of engagement, discussing such issues as "personality" and "signature" strikes as well as the implications of the deployment of spies as drone strikers rather the Defence Department, the members of the U.S armed forces.

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Contents

　

Dedication

Contents

List of Acronyms

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Insurgency and Terrorism as forms of Asymmetric Warfare

Chapter 3: The War on Terrorism (WoT)

Chapter 4: Dirty/nightmarish weapon platforms in WoT

Chapter 5: The jurisprudence of new and "unregulated" weapons

Chapter 6: The armed drone weapon platform

Chapter 7: Drones in self-defence against terrorists

Chapter 8: Drones, vanishing frontlines and the emergence of "battlespace"

Chapter 9: Drones in International Humanitarian Law, IHL

Chapter 10: Drones and ethics in WoT

Chapter 11: Drones, WoT and the principle of chivalry

Chapter 12: Drones, miniaturization, automation and accountability in WoT

Chapter 13: Globalization, postmodernism and the WoT

Chapter 14: To achieve a successful WoT

Select bibliography

Index

　

O autorze

Professor Fred Aja Agwu is the Head of the Division of International Law and Organization at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, Nigeria