Robotics, Autonomous Systems and Contemporary International Security

ISBN-13: 9780367623760 / Miękka / 2023 / 236 str.

Opis

Bringing together leading experts from across the globe, this book provides timely analysis on the current and future challenges associated with greater utilization of RAS by states, their militaries, and a host of non-state actors.

Spis treści

Introduction: The impact of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) across the conflict spectrum

Ash Rossiter

1. Reluctant innovators? Inter-organizational conflict and the U.S.A.’s route to becoming a drone power

Marc R. DeVore

2. Armed, unmanned, and in high demand: the drivers behind combat drones proliferation in the Middle East

Francisco F. Milan and Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi

3. U.S. drone campaign in Pakistan’s Pashtun ‘tribal’ region: beginning of the end under President Trump?

Farooq Yousaf

4. What’s in it for us? Armed drone strikes and the security of Somalia’s Federal Government

Brendon J. Cannon

5. What’s wrong with drones? Automatization and target selection

Andree-Anne Melancon

6. Friend or frenemy? The role of trust in human-machine teaming and lethal autonomous weapons systems

Aiden Warren and Alek Hillas

7. Bots on the ground: an impending UGV revolution in military affairs?

Ash Rossiter

8. Artificial intelligence, big data and autonomous systems along the belt and road: towards private security companies with Chinese characteristics?

Peter Layton

9. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on hybrid warfare

Guilong Yan

O autorze

Ash Rossiter is Assistant Professor of International Security at Khalifa University, UAE. His research rests at the nexus of technology and international security and he has published widely on this theme in journals such as Parameters and Defence Studies. He is author of the book Security in the Gulf (2020).