Emerging Technologies and International Security: Machines, the State, and War

ISBN-13: 9780367407391 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 296 str.

Reuben Steff; Joe Burton; Simona R. Soare

Opis

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

Spis treści

Introduction: Machines, the State and War Reuben Steff, Joe Burton and Simona R. Soare  1. Histories of Technologies: Society, the State and the Emergence of Postmodern Warfare Joe Burton  Section I: The Machine and the International System  2. Emerging Technologies and the Chinese Challenge to US Innovation Leadership James Johnson  3. Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Small States Reuben Steff  4. Artificial Intelligence and the Military Balance of Power: Interrogating the US-China Confrontation Reuben Steff and Khusrow Abbasi  5. Mitigating Accidental War: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and De-Escalation Strategies Aiden Warren and Alek Hillas  Section II: Emerging Technologies, the State and the Changing Character of Conflict  6. Politics in the Machine: The Political Context of Emerging Technologies, National Security and Great Power Competition Simona R. Soare  7. Inequitable Internet. Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty through the Blockchain Andrew Colarik and MAJ Richard Wilson  8. The Evolution of the Russian Way of Informatsionnaya Voyna Sean Ainsworth  9. US Grand Strategy and the Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles during the George W. Bush Administration Francis Okpaleke and Joe Burton  Section III: The State, Society and Non-State Actors  10. Cyber Autonomy: Automating the Hacker – Self-healing, Self-adaptive, Automatic Cyber Defense Systems and their Impact to the Industry, Society and National Security Ryan K. L. Ko  11. The International Security Implications of 3D Printed Firearms Pete Cook  12. Deepfakes and Synthetic Media Curtis Barnes and Tom Barraclough  13. Cyber Threat Attribution, Trust and Confidence, and the Contestability of National Security Policy William Hoverd  14. Disrupting Paradigms through New Technologies: Assessing the Potential of ‘Smart’ Water Points to Improve Water Security for Marginalized Communities Nathan John Cooper  15. "Just wrong", "disgusting", "grotesque": How to Deal with Public Rejection of New Potentially Life-saving Technologies Dan Weijers  Conclusion: Society, Security & Technology: Mapping a Fluid Relationship Simona R. Soare