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Rule of Law and Sovereignty Outside the State

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  1. The ticking bomb scenario has been characterized as “one of the most vexing issues of the torture debate”; a scenario that has been deployed to justify torture, and the discarding of legal safeguards for suspects and detainees “when the public is in danger” (Lokaneeta 2011, p. 61). With Eye, there is a deft transplantation of the ticking bomb scenario from the torture debate to the uncertainties surrounding the limits on, and scrutiny of, state power in drone warfare. This transplantation is troubling for the way it deploys fear and posits a state omniscience relating to the future. The arc of Eye’s narrative legitimates an expansive, secretive, state power in drone warfare through the compelling need to protect innocent publics by preventing the unfolding suicide bombings.

  2. https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/03/18/a-war-seen-in-unnerving-close-up-from-eye-in-the-sky/.

  3. At 2004: 362 of the Report. Although the language of “planetary jurisdiction” is specific to the 9/11 Commission Report, a US foreign policy twinned to global militarization and technologies of representation dates from (at least) the Cold War (e.g., Virilio 1989, p. 17: Masco 2014).

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Rajah, J. Rule of Law and Sovereignty Outside the State. Hague J Rule Law 11, 493–499 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-019-00106-1

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