Precision Strike Warfare and International Intervention : Strategic, Ethico-Legal and Decisional Implications (Hardcover)

Part I: Strategic and Foreign Policy Drivers and ConsequencesPreface: Precision Strike Capabilities: Political and Strategic Consequences, Jamie Shea Introduction, Precision Strike Warfare and International Intervention: Strategic, Ethico-Legal and Decisional Implications, Mike Aaronson and Tom Dyson 1. Dealing with Risk: Precision Strikes and Interventionism in the Obama Administration, Andre Barrinha and Luis da Vinha 2. European Precision Strike Capabilities: A Neoclassical Realist Perspective, Tom Dyson 3. The Global Diffusion of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or "drones", Ulrike Esther Franke 4. The Political Appropriation of Casualties in Threat Construction: The Case of US Drone Strikes in Pakistan, Wali Aslam Part II: Legal and Moral Implications 5. Covert Drone Strikes and the Fiction of Zero Civilian Casualties, Chris Woods 6. Drones: Degrading Moral Thresholds for the Use of Force and the Calculations of Proportionality, Conway Waddington 7. Terrorising Terrorists: The Jus ad bellum of Drone Operations in Pakistan, Tobias Ruettershof 8. UAV for R2P? Exploring the Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Drones, Ina Wiesner Part III:Strategic and Foreign Policy Drivers and Consequences 9. Psychological Perspectives on Military Decisions to Deploy Precision Strike Capabilities, Adrian Banks and Mandeep Dhami 10. Unmanned Weapons Systems and Just Wars: The Psychological Dimensions, Nicola Power, Laurence Alison and Jason Ralph 11. Keeping the Human "in the loop": A Qualified Defence of Autonomous Weapons Systems, Alex Leveringhaus and Tjerk de Greef Conclusion: Precision Strikes - the Way Forward,Wali Aslam and Regina Rauxloh