Remote Warfare & Drones: Discourses on Dutch Drones
Tracking and analysing the political rhetoric and narrative of armed drones.
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The Policy and Law of Remote Warfare
Countering threats from a distance and over long periods of time has radically altered our ideas of warfare. Without clearly-demarcated battlefields, explicit declarations of war, or boots on the ground, the rules and expectations surrounding when and how war is fought has become increasingly complex. How, then, is remote warfare politically and legally enabled, legitimised, accounted for and contested, both domestically and internationally?
Here you will find our own research output and a variety of other thematically relevant publications, blogs, events and podcasts we have been inspired by in our investigations into the Intimacies of Remote Warfare.
Holding the powerful to account
Webinar on legal claims involving the military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
How Remote is Remote Warfare?
What does it mean for warfare to be ‘remote’? How can the turn to remote warfare among Western countries be explained? And what effect does this distance have on transparency and accountability? On the 1st of December, The Intimacies of Remote Warfare project leader Prof. Dr. Jolle Demmers will be tackling the big questions surrounding
UN Special Rapporteur casts a new light on enduring issues in remote warfare
New report takes a fresh look at old issues.
The Good War
New podcast on the Netherlands’ use of Remote Warfare.
Perfect War and its Contestations
Chapter from Demmers, Gould and Snetselaar in the book, “Spaces of War, War of Spaces,” published by Bloomsbury
WarPod Ep #16 | The Remote Warfare Paradox
Jolle Demmers and Lauren Gould discuss the Remote Warfare Paradox on the ORG Warpod podcast
The Remote Warfare Paradox
Advance preview from the forthcoming book “Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” on how the democratic desire for zero-risk war lowers the threshold for military engagement.
Perfect War/Truth: Remote warfare and its capacity to ward off inconvenient counter truths
Jolle Demmers, Lauren Gould and David Snetselaar talk on regimes of truth and remote warfare in Brussels.
Ignorance in war is not an excuse
The Dutch Ministry of Defence claim that they cannot know how many civilian casualties occur in their remote wars to evade accountability and public outcry. This is what Lauren Gould en Nora Stel write in their Dutch op-ed for the NRC.
Lawfare and Remote Warfare
Reviewing Craig Jones’ research on the instrumental use of law in justifying and enabling remote warfare.
Law and the Soleimani Strike
The Lawfare Podcast explores the key legal questions surrounding the killing of Qassem Soleimani.
The Remote Warfare Paradox
Jolle Demmers and Lauren Gould talk at the Conflict Research Society’s Annual Conference titled “Conflict Research and Practice in a Post-Liberal World.”
Remote Warfare: Remote Justice?
An assemblage approach is taken to understand how and why the members of European Forum on Drones act in dynamic alliances of states, institutions, organisations, groups, expert individuals, discourses, treaties, laws and regulations to govern the use of armed drones
In een ‘schone oorlog’ vloeit net zo goed bloed
Op-Ed in Trouw by Jolle Demmers and David Snetselaar.
Optimizing Coalition Air Warfare: The Emergence and Ethical Dilemmas of Red Card Holder Teams
Jacobsen and Saugmann examine the operationalisation of international law through Red Card Holders in collaborative military interventions.
Shaping the Borderlands: the spatial and temporal reconfigurations of modern warfare
Talk at the Conceptualising Remote Warfare conference.
Onze Langeafstandsoorlog in Syrië en Irak
Panel discussion on the remote war waged in Iraq and Syria, held 17th December 2018
Onze Langeafstandsoorlog in Syrië en Irak
Panel discussion on the remote war waged in Iraq and Syria, held 17th December 2018
Stop de langeafstandsoorlog in Syrië en Irak
Op-Ed in Trouw by Jolle Demmers and Lauren Gould.
Remote Warfare and its Discontents
Blog post on transparency, accountability and scrutiny in remote warfare.
Lawful but Awful? Legal and Political Challenges of Remote Warfare and Working with Partners
Knowles and Watson explore the legal grey zones of British military partnering.
The Intimacies of Remote Warfare Conference
International seminar on the changing nature of warfare, held 6-7th December 2017
Remote Interventionism
Jolle Demmers and Lauren Gould at the Pan-European Conference of the European International Studies Association.
Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars
This documentary presents an overview of remote warfare’s inconvenient truths: violations of international law, loss of innocent life, psychological and societal trauma, and potential blowback.