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A game of drones

Sarah Kreps (Cornell): Flying under the Radar: A Study of Public Attitudes towards Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (and more). Justin Desautels-Stein (Colorado): The Judge and the Drone. K. Benson (UCLA): “Kill 'em and Sort it Out Later”: Signature Drone Strikes and International Humanitarian Law. Simon Frankel Pratt (Toronto): A Game of Drones: Institutional Infighting, Innovation, and the Development of the US's Targeted Killing Programme. Andrea Gilli (EUI) and Mauro Gilli (Northwestern): The Diffusion of Drone Warfare: Industrial, Infrastructural and Organizational Constraints. John Bernard Quigley (OSU): Drone Strike Blowback. Shane R. Reeves (USMA) and William J. Johnson (JAGC): Autonomous Weapons: Are You Sure These are Killer Robots? Can We Talk About It? Thomas Donnelly on drones and the next war. Noah Smith on how drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years. John Haltiwanger on the the use of drones and drone strikes by the United States: The new American way of war? Richard A. Clarke on drones: “I’m not even sure 20 years from now we’ll have fighter pilots”. Arthur Holland Michel interviews Richard Clarke, author of Sting of the Drone, on drone warfare. Use of drones for killings risks a war without end, panel concludes in report. Zack Beauchamp on how the drone war may be over in Pakistan. Why is the U.S. so stingy with its drones? Jessica Schulberg on why it's time to reexamine laws about selling UAVs to other countries. From The Washington Post, a series of articles on drones by Craig Whitlock: When drones fall from the sky; crashes mount as military flies more drones in U.S.; and close encounters with small drones on rise. Aaron Sankin on everything you ever wanted to know about drones (but were too afraid to ask).