Política dos drones dos Estados Unidos e o direito internacional humanitário

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the legality or not of the drones program used by the United States in relation to International Humanitarian Law (IHL) that carries out attacks in the fight against terrorism in countries located in the Middle East. In order to do this we explain what the drones are and how they were incorporated into US foreign policy, we discuss the definitions of international terrorism and the context in which the jihadist organizations in the Middle East emerged, as well as discussing what is international humanitarian law and the importance the UN in defending these rights. The concept of constructivism through Wendt (2013) was used as its theoretical basis, and its main concepts as the formation of identities and interests through practices carried out among themselves, the different configurations of security system that a sovereign state can obtain and the definition of sovereignty. At the end of the work a conclusion is made on all the research carried out in order to answer about the legality of these operations.