{"product_id":"emerging-technologies-and-international-security-9780367636845","title":"Emerging Technologies and International Security","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of emerging technologies and their impact on the new international security environment across three levels of analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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 \u003ci\u003einternational system\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003esystemic level\u003c\/i\u003e) including the balance of power; (2) \u003ci\u003ethe state\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003estate and society\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eincluding how these technologies affect individual\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Machines, the State and War \u003ci\u003eReuben Steff, Joe Burton and Simona R. Soare \u003c\/i\u003e1. Histories of Technologies: Society, the State and the Emergence of Postmodern Warfare \u003ci\u003eJoe Burton \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection I: The Machine and the International System \u003c\/b\u003e2. Emerging Technologies and the Chinese Challenge to US Innovation Leadership \u003ci\u003eJames Johnson \u003c\/i\u003e3. Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Small States \u003ci\u003eReuben Steff \u003c\/i\u003e4. Artificial Intelligence and the Military Balance of Power: Interrogating the US-China Confrontation \u003ci\u003eReuben Steff and Khusrow Abbasi \u003c\/i\u003e5. Mitigating Accidental War: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and De-Escalation Strategies \u003ci\u003eAiden Warren and Alek Hillas \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection II: Emerging Technologies, the State and the Changing Character of Conflict \u003c\/b\u003e6. Politics in the Machine: The Political Context of Emerging Technologies, National Security and Great Power Competition \u003ci\u003eSimona R. Soare \u003c\/i\u003e7. Inequitable Internet. Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty through the Blockchain \u003ci\u003eAndrew Colarik and MAJ Richard Wilson \u003c\/i\u003e8. The Evolution of the Russian Way of Informatsionnaya Voyna \u003ci\u003eSean Ainsworth \u003c\/i\u003e9. US Grand Strategy and the Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles during the George W. Bush Administration \u003ci\u003eFrancis Okpaleke and Joe Burton \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection III: The State, Society and Non-State Actors \u003c\/b\u003e10. Cyber Autonomy: Automating the Hacker – Self-healing, Self-adaptive, Automatic Cyber Defense Systems and their Impact to the Industry, Society and National Security \u003ci\u003eRyan K. L. Ko \u003c\/i\u003e11. The International Security Implications of 3D Printed Firearms \u003ci\u003ePete Cook \u003c\/i\u003e12. Deepfakes and Synthetic Media \u003ci\u003eCurtis Barnes and Tom Barraclough \u003c\/i\u003e13. Cyber Threat Attribution, Trust and Confidence, and the Contestability of National Security Policy \u003ci\u003eWilliam Hoverd \u003c\/i\u003e14. Disrupting Paradigms through New Technologies: Assessing the Potential of ‘Smart’ Water Points to Improve Water Security for Marginalized Communities \u003ci\u003eNathan John Cooper \u003c\/i\u003e15. \"Just wrong\", \"disgusting\", \"grotesque\": How to Deal with Public Rejection of New Potentially Life-saving Technologies \u003ci\u003eDan Weijers \u003c\/i\u003eConclusion: Society, Security \u0026amp; Technology: Mapping a Fluid Relationship \u003ci\u003eSimona R. Soare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017994076503,"sku":"9780367636845","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367636845.jpg?v=1750775298","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/emerging-technologies-and-international-security-9780367636845","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}