{"product_id":"theorising-future-conflict-9781032113654","title":"Theorising Future Conflict","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the changing tactics, technologies and terrains of twenty-first century war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt argues that the world in 2049 is unlikely to look like the climate change\/artificial intelligence (AI) dystopia depicted in \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner 2049,\u003c\/i\u003e but nor will it be a world where conflict and war has been transformed by a civilising process' that eradicates violence and conflict from the human condition. 2049 is also the year that the US Department of Defense has suggested China will become a world-shaping military power. All states will be engaged in arms races' across a variety of new tools and technologiesfrom drones, robotics, AI and quantum computingthat will transform politics, economy, society and war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on thinkers such as Zygmunt Bauman and Paul Virilio, the book suggests that future war will be shaped by three broad tendencies that include a broad range of tactics, technologies and trends; the impure, the granular and the machinic. Through discussions of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eTheorising Future Conflict\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on a thrilling journey into the cyberpunk politics of war and security that the near future may well have in store. Weaving a path amid sci-fi dystopias, liberal theory, and war studies, Mark Lacy offers us a sobering assessment of how global security (and society) may be transformed this side of 2049. Exactly the kind of free and clear thinking we need in a moment too often in hock to glib optimism or dark dystopias.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuben Andersson,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Oxford, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Lacy takes us to a future of ‘shimmers’, ‘hybrids’ and ‘cyborgs’ that speaks to our present. How did we reach it? What alternative futures were discarded on the way? Instead of ready-made answers, this book proposes materials, tools and spaces to speculate, face and form our futures.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnna Leander,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eGeneva Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Drawing inspiration from science fiction, Mark Lacy's \u003ci\u003eTheorising Future Conflict\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative and theoretically sophisticated mediation on the possible trajectories of armed conflict.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDuncan Bell,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Cambridge, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: A Mug’s Game \u003cb\u003ePart I: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century \u003c\/b\u003e2. The Liberal Way of Future Warfare 3. The Lethal State of Modernity \u003cb\u003ePart II: The Tactics, Terrains and Technologies of Future Warfare \u003c\/b\u003e4. The Impure 1: On the Sub-Threshold of Modernity and War 5. The Impure 2: Glitches in the Digital War Machine—The (Hu)Man, the State and (Cyber)War 6. The Granular 1: The Changing Scale in Conflict 7. The Granular 2: The Granularity of Future War 8. The Machinic 1: The Battle Angels of Our Better Nature 9. The Machinic 2: The Great Accelerator? AI and the Future of Warfare 10. Cyberpunk International Politics? Enter the Shimmer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018844275031,"sku":"9781032113654","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032113654.jpg?v=1750778367","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/theorising-future-conflict-9781032113654","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}