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Does the lethal use of drones pose any new or difficult moral problems? Or is the controversy over these weapons merely a distraction from deeper questions regarding the justice of war and the United States' bellicose foreign policy? Opposing Perspectives on the Drone Debate pulls no punches in answering these questions as five scholars square off in a lively debate over the ethics of drones and their contentious use in a point-counterpoint debate. The contributing authors are some of the foremost thinkers in international affairs today, spanning the disciplines of philosophy, sociology, political science, and law. Topics debated range from the US's contested policy of so-called "targeted killing" in Pakistan's tribal regions to fears over the damaging effects such weaponry has on our democratic institutions to the more abstract moral questions raised by killing via remote control such as the duty to capture over kill.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Opening Argument
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First Round of Responses
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Strawser’s Response
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Second Round of Responses
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Concluding Response
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About the authors
Bradley J. Strawser is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Naval Postgraduate School , USA, and Research Associate at Oxford University's Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Opposing Perspectives on the Drone Debate
Authors: Bradley Jay Strawser, Lisa Hajjar, Steven Levine, Feisal H. Naqvi, John Fabian Witt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137432636
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political Science Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43261-2Published: 18 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49249-7Published: 19 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-43263-6Published: 17 June 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 199
Topics: International Relations, Political Science, Military and Defence Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence