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Autore |
Hasian Marouf Arif, Jr. |
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Drone warfare and lawfare in a post-heroic age / / Marouf Hasian Jr |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Collana |
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Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Drone aircraft - United States - Political aspects |
Drone aircraft - United States - Moral and ethical aspects |
Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law) - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. An Argumentation Approach to the Study of Drone Warfare and Lawfare; 2. The Genealogical Origins of Heroic Anxieties over Asymmetrical Warfare, Aerial Bombing, and the "Drone Syndrome"; 3. The George W. Bush Administration and America's Adoption of the Drones, 2001-2008; 4. Preserving One's Honor and One's Humanity: Mediascapes and Pakistani Countervisual Critiques of the Drone Wars; 5. Humanizing Drone Pilots, the Politics of Verticality, and the Public Legitimation of US Drone Policies |
6. The Obama Administration's Immunization Rhetorics, the "Dispositional Matrix," and the BiopoliticalExpansion of the Drone Wars7. Futuristic Drone Fantasies, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), and Drone Proliferation; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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