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The American way of bombing : changing ethical and legal norms, from flying fortresses to drones / edited by Matthew Evangelista and Henry Shue.

Other author/creatorEvangelista, Matthew, 1958- editor.
Other author/creatorShue, Henry editor.
Included WorkBiddle, Tami Davis. Strategic bombardment Contains (work)
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Copyright Notice ©2014
Descriptionvii, 315 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Historical and theoretical perspectives -- Strategic bombardment: expectation, theory, and practice in the early 20th century / Tami Davis Biddle -- Bombing civilians after World War II: the persistence of norms against targeting civilians in the Korean war / Sahr Conway-Lanz -- Targeting civilians and US strategic bombing norms: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? / Neta C. Crawford -- The law applies, but which law? a consumer guide to the laws of war / Charles Garraway -- Interpreting, criticizing, and creating legal restrictions -- Clever or clueless? observations about bombing norm debates / Charles J. Dunlap, Jr -- The American way of bombing and international law: two logics of warfare in tension / Janina Dill -- Force protection, military advantage, and constant care for civilians: the 1991 bombing of Iraq / Henry Shue -- Civilian deaths and American power: three lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan / Richard W. Miller -- Constructing new norms -- Proportionality and restraint on the use of force: the role of nongovernmental organizations / Margarita H. Petrova -- Toward an anthropology of drones: remaking space, time, and valor in combat / Hugh Gusterson -- What's wrong with drones? the battlefield in international humanitarian law / Klem Ryan -- Banning autonomous killing: the legal and ethical requirement that humans make near-time lethal decisions / Mary Ellen O'Connell.
General note"The papers commissioned for this project were first intensively discussed at a workshop at Cornell University in April 2011"--Acknowledgements.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-299) and index.
LCCN 2014006282
ISBN9780801452802 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0801452805 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780801479342 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0801479347 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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