Precarious life
Just back from a wonderful trip to Toronto and York, where (among other things) I gave a new presentation on “Drones and the everywhere war“. It turned out to have been timely: there’s been a flurry...
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Excellent news from Josh Begley that Apple has finally accepted his app tracking US drone strikes: No longer Drones+, it’s now called Metadata+ and advertises ‘real time updates on national security’,...
View ArticleThatcher’s Gift: law and ordering
Following on from my last post… The failure of the anonymous US official to recognise what I called the operative presence of customary law is symptomatic of a structural condition: Pakistan’s...
View ArticleZombie law
Over at ESIL [European Society of International Law] Reflections [5 (7) 2016], Jochen von Bernstorff has a succinct commentary on ‘Drone strikes, terrorism and the zombie: on the construction of an...
View ArticleCounting casualties and making casualties count
In my analysis of CIA-directed drone strikes in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (see ‘Dirty Dancing’: DOWNLOADS tab) I drew upon the tabulations provided by the Bureau of Investigative...
View ArticleDistinction and the ethics of violence
In another lifetime, or so it seems, I wrote a short essay on ‘The death of the civilian’ (DOWNLOADS tab), and I seem to have spent much of the intervening years developing those early ideas. So I’m...
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