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Armed Drones and Globalization in the Asymmetric War on Terror: Challenges for the Law of Armed Conflict and Global Political Economy book cover

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Armed Drones and Globalization in the Asymmetric War on Terror Challenges for the Law of Armed Conflict and Global Political Economy

By Fred Aja Agwu Copyright 2018
358 Pages
by Routledge

358 Pages
by Routledge

358 Pages
by Routledge
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This book is a critical exploration of the war on terror from the prism of armed drones and globalization. It is particularly focused on the United States’ use of the drones, and the systemic dysfunctions that globalization has caused to international political economy and national security, creating backlash in which the desirability of globalization is not only increasingly questioned, but the... Read more

Contents





　



Dedication



Contents



List of Acronyms



Preface





Chapter 1: Introduction



Chapter 2: Insurgency and Terrorism as forms of Asymmetric Warfare



Chapter 3: The War on Terrorism (WoT)



Chapter 4: Dirty/nightmarish weapon platforms in WoT



Chapter 5: The jurisprudence of new and "unregulated" weapons



Chapter 6: The armed drone weapon platform



Chapter 7: Drones in self-defence against terrorists



Chapter 8: Drones, vanishing frontlines and the emergence of "battlespace"



Chapter 9: Drones in International Humanitarian Law, IHL



Chapter 10: Drones and ethics in WoT



Chapter 11: Drones, WoT and the principle of chivalry



Chapter 12: Drones, miniaturization, automation and accountability in WoT



Chapter 13: Globalization, postmodernism and the WoT



Chapter 14: To achieve a successful WoT





Select bibliography



Index





　

Biography

Professor Fred Aja Agwu is the Head of the Division of International Law and Organization at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, Nigeria

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