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050 00 $aUG703$b.A74 2014
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245 04 $aThe American way of bombing :$bchanging ethical and legal norms, from flying fortresses to drones /$cedited by Matthew Evangelista and Henry Shue.
264 1 $aIthaca ;$aLondon :$bCornell University Press,$c2014.
264 4 $c©2014
300 $avii, 315 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-299) and index.
505 0 $aHistorical 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.
500 $a"The papers commissioned for this project were first intensively discussed at a workshop at Cornell University in April 2011"--Acknowledgements.
650 0 $aBombing, Aerial$zUnited States.
650 0 $aBombing, Aerial$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aDrone aircraft$xGovernment policy$zUnited States.
700 1 $aEvangelista, Matthew,$d1958-$eeditor.
700 1 $aShue, Henry,$eeditor.
700 12 $iContains (work):$aBiddle, Tami Davis,$d1959-$tStrategic bombardment