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

• Autore: Hasian Marouf Arif, Jr.
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 343.73/0142
• Soggetto topico: Drone aircraft - United States - Political aspects; Drone aircraft - United States - Moral and ethical aspects; Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law) - United States
• Soggetto non controllato: Lawfare (Transnational litigation for political purposes)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Drone warfare and lawfare in a post-heroic age
• ISBN: 0-8173-8911-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808564403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities