8. Studying Drones: The Low Quality Information Environment of Pakistan’s Tribal Areas

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Figures and Tables ix
5. 1. Introduction: The Preventive Force Continuum 1
6. Part I. Understanding Preventive War
7. 2. Preventive Force: The Logic of Costs and Benefits 33
8. 3. Preventive War and Its Domestic Politics 58
9. 4. Sovereignty and Preventive War in the Twenty- First Century: A Retrospective on Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War 88
10. Part II. Perspectives on Preventive Drone Strikes
11. 5. Why Drones Are Different 115
12. 6. The Drone: It’s in the Way That You Use It 142
13. 7. Drones and the Law: Why We Do Not Need a New Legal Framework for Targeted Killing 170
14. 8. Studying Drones: The Low Quality Information Environment of Pakistan’s Tribal Areas 199
15. Part III. The Future of Preventive Force
16. 9. The Contemporary Practice of Self- Defense: Evolving Toward the Use of Preemptive or Preventive Force? 229
17. 10. Restricting the Preventive Use of Force: Drones, the Struggle against Non- State Actors, and Jus ad Vim 257
18. 11. Drones and Dirty Hands 283
19. 12. Beyond Preventive Force: Just Peace as Preventive Non- Intervention 313
20. 13. Conclusions 341
21. About the Contributors 349
22. Index 353