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      Machines, the state, and war

      Emerging technologies and international security

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      Emerging technologies and international security book

      Machines, the state, and war
      ByReuben Steff, Joe Burton, Simona R. Soare
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      eBook Published 26 November 2020
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367808846
      Pages 312
      eBook ISBN 9780367808846
      Subjects Politics & International Relations
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      Steff, R., Burton, J., & Soare, S.R. (2020). Emerging technologies and international security: Machines, the state, and war (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367808846

      ABSTRACT

      This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of emerging technologies and their impact on the new international security environment across three levels of analysis.

      While recent technological developments, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and automation, have the potential to transform international relations in positive ways, they also pose challenges to peace and security and raise new ethical, legal and political questions about the use of power and the role of humans in war and conflict. This book makes a contribution to these debates by considering emerging technologies across three levels of analysis: (1) the international system (systemic level) including the balance of power; (2) the state and its role in international affairs and how these technologies are redefining and challenging the state’s traditional roles; and (3) the relationship between the state and society, including how these technologies affect individuals and non-state actors. This provides specific insights at each of these levels and generates a better understanding of the connections between the international and the local when it comes to technological advance across time and space

      The chapters examine the implications of these technologies for the balance of power, examining the strategies of the US, Russia, and China to harness AI, robotics and automation (and how their militaries and private corporations are responding); how smaller and less powerful states and non-state actors are adjusting; the political, ethical and legal implications of AI and automation; what these technologies mean for how war and power is understood and utilized in the 21st century; and how these technologies diffuse power away from the state to society, individuals and non-state actors.

      This volume will be of much interest to students of international security, science and technology studies, law, philosophy, and international relations.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |11 pages

      Introduction

      Machines, the state, and war
      ByReuben Steff, Joe Burton, Simona R. Soare

      chapter 1|15 pages

      Histories of technologies

      Society, the state, and the emergence of postmodern warfare
      ByJoe Burton

      part Part I|74 pages

      The machine and the international system

      chapter 2|20 pages

      Emerging technologies and the Chinese challenge to US innovation leadership *

      ByJames Johnson

      chapter 3|16 pages

      Artificial intelligence

      Implications for small states
      ByReuben Steff

      chapter 4|18 pages

      Artificial intelligence and the military balance of power

      Interrogating the US–China confrontation
      ByReuben Steff, Khusrow Abbasi

      chapter 5|18 pages

      Mitigating accidental war

      Risk-based strategies for governing lethal autonomous weapons systems
      ByAiden Warren, Alek Hillas

      part Part II|70 pages

      Emerging technologies, the state, and the changing character of conflict

      chapter 6|20 pages

      Politics in the machine

      The political context of emerging technologies, national security, and great power competition
      BySimona R. Soare

      chapter 7|14 pages

      Inequitable Internet

      Reclaiming digital sovereignty through the blockchain
      ByRichard Wilson, Andrew Colarik

      chapter 8|16 pages

      The evolution of the Russian way of informatsionnaya voyna

      BySean Ainsworth

      chapter 9|18 pages

      US grand strategy and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles during the George W. Bush administration

      ByFrancis Okpaleke, Joe Burton

      part Part III|112 pages

      The state, society, and non-state actors

      chapter 10|19 pages

      Cyber autonomy

      Automating the hacker – self-healing, self-adaptive, automatic cyber defense systems and their impact on industry, society, and national security
      ByRyan K.L. Ko

      chapter 11|14 pages

      The international security implications of 3D printed firearms

      ByPeter Cook

      chapter 12|15 pages

      Deepfakes and synthetic media

      ByCurtis Barnes, Tom Barraclough

      chapter 13|19 pages

      Cyber threat attribution, trust and confidence, and the contestability of national security policy

      ByWilliam Hoverd

      chapter 14|14 pages

      Disrupting paradigms through new technologies

      Assessing the potential of smart water points to improve water security for marginalized communities
      ByNathan John Cooper

      chapter 15|19 pages

      “Just wrong”, “disgusting”, “grotesque”

      How to deal with public rejection of new potentially life-saving technologies
      ByDan Weijers

      chapter |10 pages

      Conclusion

      Society, security, and technology: Mapping a fluid relationship
      BySimona R. Soare
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