Recent Articles
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
Toward a Drone Accountability Regime
The key principle of a Drone Accountability Regime should be transparency, and its central agent should be an Ombudsperson with broad authority to investigate situations ...
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post-9/11 Wars by Neta C. Crawford
For Crawford, we ought not to regard instances in which civilians are mistakenly targeted or instances in which more civilians are killed collaterally than had ...
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
The Informal Regulation of Drones and the Formal Legal Regulation of War
How does the proposed drone accountability regime relate to existing international treaty and customary law governing the use of force, including the use of lethal ...
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
Targeted Killing: Accountability and Oversight via a Drone Accountability Regime
Using a drone as a component of a military operation does not automatically make that action a “targeted killing.” Much of the public concern about ...
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
Toward a Drone Accountability Regime: A Rejoinder
We appreciate the fact that our proposal initiated a lively discussion of the characteristics of a Drone Accountability Regime, and of the international political and ...
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
Accountability for Targeted Drone Strikes Against Terrorists?
The problem of terrorism can and probably ought to be approached from both war and law enforcement paradigms, not merely the former one, as Buchanan ...
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
From Moral to Political Responsibility in a Globalized Age
In a world beset by empirical global problems and global collective inaction, we need less to speak of the moral responsibility of political agents than ...
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
The Endtimes of Human Rights by Stephen Hopgood
Is the Human Rights “project” coming to an end? Hopgood believes it has sold its moral clarity for an alliance with interventionist liberal states.
MAR 5, 2015 • Journal
Distant Intimacy: Space, Drones, and Just War
Critical engagement with the concept of space, rooted in political geography, augments established ethical critiques of drone strikes. As drone use grows, it is crucial ...