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Drones Come Home: Foreign Intervention and the Use of Drones in the United States

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  • Abigail R. Hall

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This paper analyzes how the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or “drones” in foreign interventions abroad have changed the dynamics of government activities domestically. Facing limited or absent constraints abroad, foreign interventions served as a testing ground for the domestically constrained U.S. government to experiment with drone technologies and other methods of social control over foreign populations. Utilizing the “boomerang effect” framework developed by Coyne and Hall (2014), this paper examines the use of drones abroad and the mechanisms through which the technology has been imported back to the United States. The use of these technologies domestically has substantial implications for the freedom and liberties of U.S. citizens as it lowers the cost of government expanding the scope of its activities.

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  • Christopher J. Coyne & Abigail R. Hall, 2015. "Drones Come Home: Foreign Intervention and the Use of Drones in the United States," Advances in Austrian Economics, in: New Thinking in Austrian Political Economy, volume 19, pages 215-241, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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    DOI: 10.1108/S1529-213420150000019011
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    1. Abigail R. Hall & Christopher J. Coyne, 2014. "The political economy of drones," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(5), pages 445-460, October.
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    Keywords

    Boomerang effect; foreign intervention; drones; scope of government; D74; F52; H11; H56;
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    JEL classification:

    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • F52 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - National Security; Economic Nationalism
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War

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