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Terrorism and the US Drone Attacks in Pakistan - Killing First (Paperback)
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Terrorism and the US Drone Attacks in Pakistan - Killing First (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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This book analyses the US drone attacks against terrorists in
Pakistan to assess whether the 'pre-emptive' use of combat drones
to kill terrorists is ever legally justified. Exploring the
doctrinal discourse of pre-emption vis-a-vis the US drone attacks
against terrorists in Pakistan, the book shows that the debate
surrounding this discourse encapsulates crucial tensions between
the permission and limits of the right of self-defence. Drawing
from the long history of God-given and man-made laws of war, this
book employs positivism as a legal frame to explore and explain the
doctrine of pre-emption and analyses the doctrine of the state's
rights to self-defence as it stretches into pre-emptive or
preventive use of force. The book investigates why the US chose the
recourse to pre-emption through the use of combat drones in the
'war on terror' and whether there is a potential future for the
pre-emption of terrorism through combat drones. The author argues
that the policy to 'kill first' is easy to adopt; however, any
disregard for the web of legal requirements surrounding the policy
has the potential to undercut the legal claims of an armed act. The
book enables the framing and analysis of such controversies in
legal terms as opposed to a choice between law and policy. An
examination of the legal dilemma concerning drone warfare, this
book will be of interest to academics in the fields of
international relations, Asian politics, South Asian studies, and
security studies, in particular, global security law, new wars, and
emerging technologies of warfare.
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