Drones and International Law(English, Hardcover, Mignot-Mahdavi Rebecca)

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Drones and International Law(English, Hardcover, Mignot-Mahdavi Rebecca) is written by Mignot-Mahdavi Rebecca and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1009346555 (ISBN 10) and 9781009346559 (ISBN 13).

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.