BIBFRAME Work

Title

De Gruyter Handbook of drone warfare

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Patton Rogers, James (editor )

Subject

• Drone aircraft--Moral and ethical aspects (LCSH)
• Drone aircraft--Government policy (LCSH)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• portraits
• charts
• illustrations

Classification

LCC: UG1242.D7 D47 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"In 2010, 60 states had a military drone program. Today at least 113 countries and 65 non-state actors now have access to weaponized drone technologies. Alongside this, established 'drone powers' - the U.S., China, Turkey, and Iran - have expanded their own use of military drones, increasing the sale and deployment of drones around the world. In the De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare, drone expert, policy adviser, and historian, Dr James Patton Rogers, brings together 37 of the world's leading voices on the growing issues of commercial and military drone technologies. From the origins of military drones in the early 1900s and the resurgence of drone use during the War on Terror, through to the global proliferation of drones across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, this handbook explores the moral, ethical, technological, legal, military, geopolitical, social, and strategic issues at the heart of drone warfare. The first handbook of its kind, the volume also addresses Russia's offensive war against Ukraine, the rise of Iranian and Houthi drones, and provides a focused analysis of the future of drone warfare and the opportunities and perils of AI, autonomy, and swarming technologies in the coming Third Drone Age"-- Publisher's description.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Why Study Drones? -- Part 1: Approaches to the Study of Drone Warfare -- 2 What Is Drone Warfare? -- 3 Defining Drones -- 4 Drones and International Law -- 5 Drone Imaginaries -- 6 A Gendering of Drones -- 7 Critiquing Drone Warfare -- Part 2: The First Drone Age -- 8 What Is 'The First Drone Age'? -- 9 Drone Pilots: The Struggles of War by Remote Control -- 10 The Post-9/11 Era: Drones and Just War Theory -- 11 The CIA Drone Program -- 12 Drones and Civilian Harm -- 13 Drone Warfare and Public Opinion -- 14 Living Under Drones -- 15 The Media and Drone Warfare -- Part 3: The Second Drone Age -- 16 What is 'The Second Drone Age'? -- 17 The Islamic State Drone Program -- 18 The Use of Drones in West Africa and the Sahel -- 19 China's Drone Diplomacy -- 20 Russian Military Drones: Established and Emerging Technologies in Ukraine -- 21 Europe's Military Drone Problem -- 22 Violent Nonstate Exploitation of Commercial Drones -- 23 Game-Changing Drones? The Record from Libya to Ukraine -- Part 4: A Third Drone Age? Concerns and Visions for the Future -- Concerns -- 24 Domestic Drones and Domestic Threat: Urban Life in the Drone Age -- 25 Autonomous Drones -- 26 Swarming Drones -- 27 Countering Unmanned Aircraft Systems -- Visions -- 28 The Diffusion of Drone Warfare -- A Ten Year Review -- 29 Drones: A Unique Danger to International Law -- 30 Drone Proliferation and IR Theory: Visions for the Future -- Contributors to this Volume -- Index.

Authorized Access Point

De Gruyter Handbook of drone warfare

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• Date: 2026-09-11T20:23:08.138948+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23506884

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