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  • Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing

    On Drones, Counter-Insurgency, and Violence

    door Kyle Grayson ...
    Serie series Interventions
    The deployment of remotely piloted air platforms (RPAs) - or drones - has become a defining feature of contemporary counter-insurgency operations. Scholarly analysis and public debate has primarily focused on two issues: the legality of targeted killing and whether the practice is effective at disrupting insurgency networks, and the intensive media and activist scrutiny of the policy processes ... Meer lezen

    57,08 €

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  • Drone Warfare

    Serie series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015One of the most significant and controversial developments in contemporary warfare is the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as drones. In the last decade, US drone strikes have more than doubled and their deployment is transforming the way wars are fought across the globe. But how did drones claim such an important role in modern ... Meer lezen

    17,99 €

  • The Media and Political Process

    door Eric Louw ...
    How have professional communicators transformed the business of politics? How do political bodies use the media to sell domestic and foreign policies to the public? This fully revised new edition of The Media and Political Process assesses the impact of spin doctoring and media activity in liberal democracies that are just as concerned with impression management and public relations as with policy ... Meer lezen

    80,19 €

  • Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    Bewerkt door Bradley Jay Strawser ...
    The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges. Many of these have not yet received the serious scholarly examination such worries rightly demand. This volume attempts to fill that gap through sustained analysis of a wide range of specific moral issues that arise from ... Meer lezen

    71,08 €

  • War and Media

    The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a "new media ecology" that has ushered in new asymmetries in the waging of war and terror. To help us understand these new relationships, Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin here provide a timely, comprehensive and highly readable survey of the field of war and media.War is ... Meer lezen

    23,99 €

  • Bring 'Em On

    Media and Politics in the Iraq War

    Serie series Communication, Media, and Politics
    How were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the first preventive war of the modern age? Bring 'Em On highlights the complex links between media and politics, analyzing how communication practices are modified in times of crisis to protect political interests or implement political goals. ... Meer lezen

    48,54 €

  • The Changing Faces of Journalism

    Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness

    door Barbie Zelizer ...
    Serie series Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies
    The collection is introduced with an essay by Barbie Zelizer and organized into three sections: how tabloidization affects the journalistic landscape; how technology changes what we think we know about journalism; and how ‘truthiness’ tweaks our understanding of the journalistic tradition. Short section introductions contextualise the essays and highlight the issues that they raise, creating a ... Meer lezen

    58,30 €

  • Cyberterrorism

    Understanding, Assessment, and Response

    Serie series Computer Science (R0)
    This is the first book to present a multidisciplinary approach to cyberterrorism. It traces the threat posed by cyberterrorism today, with chapters discussing possible technological vulnerabilities, potential motivations to engage in cyberterrorism, and the challenges of distinguishing this from other cyber threats. The book also addresses the range of potential responses to this threat by ... Meer lezen

    68,89 €

  • Weaponizing Anthropology

    Social Science in Service of the Militarized State

    door David H. Price ...
    Serie series Counterpunch
    The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. David H. ... Meer lezen

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  • Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age

    door Marouf Hasian ...
    Serie series Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities
    In the past decade, the United States has rapidly deployed militarized drones in theaters of war for surveillance as well as targeted killing. The swiftness with which drones were created and put into service has outstripped the development of an associated framework for discussing them, with the result that basic conversations about these lethal weapons have been stymied for a lack of a shared ... Meer lezen

    34,33 €

  • Making Things International 2

    Catalysts and Reactions

    Bewerkt door Mark B. Salter ...
    Drawing widely from contemporary social and critical thought, Making Things International 2 offers provocative interventions into debates about causality, connection, and politics through the notion of assemblage. Political assemblages, especially those that cross national borders, can be catalyzed by a host of surprising sparks. Present-day global systems are complex and interdependent, but the ... Meer lezen

    22,67 €

  • Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency

    Global events of the early twenty-first century have placed new stress on the relationship among anthropology, governance, and war. Facing prolonged insurgency, segments of the U.S. military have taken a new interest in anthropology, prompting intense ethical and scholarly debate. Inspired by these issues, the essays in Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency consider how anthropologists can, ... Meer lezen

    29,03 €