ABSTRACT
The subject matter of the present volume is the use of armed drones by the US and other countries in the fight against terrorism. As seen in this volume, such practice raises various questions of a political, moral, and legal nature. One of the problems posed by the use of drones lies in the overall effects of their use on the system of public international law. This system is based on a certain number of parameters, general assumptions, and principles. Varying practices can have a lesser or greater impact on a specific subset of rules of international law, which may end up prodding modification. However, such practices can also have important impacts on general parameters and principles upholding the system as a whole. In this short contribution, it is proposed to look squarely into this issue.
