Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2021

Re-Ordering the World from the Skies? The Emergence and Justification of Aerial Warfare

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[...] Moving from a broad historical approach to the invention and evolution of air war-fare in the early twentieth century, Thomas Hippler's contribution is dedicated to the justification of aerial warfare especially, but not exclusively, in the realm of strategic thinking. His main aim is to point out the conceptions of international order behind the different justifications of aerial warfare and air strikes, in particular with regard to the strategic choice to target civil populations first implemented as colonial 'police bombing. With a view to the non-discriminatory violence of air strikes, Hippler again underlines the self-contradictions of the universe of the Western international legal order. This observation is of particular importance for Part IV. [...]

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Thomas Hippler’s contribution focuses on the justifications of aerial bombing in the context of the inception of air warfare in the early twentieth century, especially, but not exclusively, in the realm of strategic thinking. The main purpose of the chapter is to point out the conceptions of international order behind the different justifications of aerial warfare and air strikes, in particular with regard to the strategic choice to target civil populations, which was first implemented through the concept of colonial ‘police bombing’ before being employed in strategic bombing campaigns. Hippler’s short genealogy of aerial bombings and their justifications interestingly reminds one of the local practices of declaring war and peace by early modern conquistadores (Arnulf Becker Lorca’s chapter) and nineteenth-century imperial agents (Lauren Benton’s chapter): as Thomas Hippler argues, with aerial warfare a new form of governance emerged, which (not least in its justification) points to a disturbing link to democracy.

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hal-04128050 , version 1 (14-06-2023)

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Thomas Hippler. Re-Ordering the World from the Skies? The Emergence and Justification of Aerial Warfare. Lothar Brock; Hendrik Simon. The Justification of War and International Order. From Past to Present, Oxford University PressOxford, pp.259-273, 2021, (The history and theory of international law), 978-0-19-886530-8. ⟨10.1093/oso/9780198865308.003.0014⟩. ⟨hal-04128050⟩
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