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Highlights
- Moral uncertainty surrounding the use of armed drones has been a persistent problem for more than two decades.
- About the Author: Christian Enemark is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton, UK.
- 256 Pages
- Freedom + Security / Law Enforcement, International
Description
About the Book
An ethical assessment of violent drone use considering military ethics, law enforcement ethics, moral injury and ethical human-machine interaction
Book Synopsis
Moral uncertainty surrounding the use of armed drones has been a persistent problem for more than two decades. In response, Moralities of Drone Violence aims to provide greater clarity by exploring and ordering a variety of ways in which violent drone use can be judged as just or unjust in various circumstances. The book organises moral ideas around a series of concepts of 'drone violence' warfare, violent law enforcement, tele-intimate violence, and violence devolved from humans to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. In contrast to the way armed drones tend to be debated narrowly in terms of war and law, this broad-based approach to normative inquiry affords more scope to discern and address the potential for these weapon systems to support moral progress or to generate injustice.
From the Back Cover
Explores how we should think ethically about drone violence Moral uncertainty surrounding the use of armed drones has been a persistent problem for more than two decades. In response, Moralities of Drone Violence provides greater clarity by investigating the ways in which violent drone use is seen as just or unjust in a variety of circumstances. Adopting a broad-based approach to normative inquiry, this book organises moral ideas around a series of concepts of drone violence, including warfare, violent law enforcement, tele-intimate violence and violence devolved from humans to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Christian Enemark assesses these concepts to discern and address the potential for armed drone systems to support moral progress or to generate injustice. Christian Enemark is Professor of International Relations in the School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of SouthamptonReview Quotes
Christian Enemark has provided a comprehensive, empirically informed and distinctive set of analyses of the concepts and arguments deployed in the debates on the morality of drone violence in war and in other settings. Moralities of Drone Violence is an important, yet very readable, contribution to the scholarly literature.-- "Seumas Miller, Charles Sturt University"
About the Author
Christian Enemark is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton, UK. His research areas include global health politics, arms control, international security, and the ethics of war.