Weaponised honesty: communication strategy and NATO values
In: Defence Strategic Communications, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 203-213
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In: Defence Strategic Communications, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 203-213
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 606-607
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: U. of Adelaide Law Research Paper No. 2016-43
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In: Global policy: gp, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 179-189
ISSN: 1758-5899
AbstractPublic policy debate around regulating emerging autonomous weapons systems is vital, but in danger of neglecting crucial challenges. Current analysis focuses around efforts to define autonomy and to incorporate 'autonomous' systems within established regulatory systems, particularly international law and arms control treaties and conventions. This emphasises two key decision moments as the focus of regulation: the initiation of hostilities and target engagement, reflecting the just war tradition that provides the intellectual backdrop for much of this debate. This article suggests this underestimates the significance of the potential consequences of such weapons systems, arguing that this consensus disguises the extent to which autonomy can only be meaningfully engaged within the specific context of the circumstances when such systems may be deployed, and that the speed of decision‐making by such systems will outstrip regulatory endeavours focused on the two decision moments. This paper thus argues that only wide‐ranging debate, especially within democracies leading the development of such systems, about the relationship of autonomous systems to the nature and purpose of military violence and underpinning democratic values and principles, can adequately address the challenge presented by the emergence of contextually autonomous weapons.
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 93-110
ISSN: 1747-7093
This article argues that the use of just war theory as the principal framework for ethical assessment of the use of drones for targeted killing is hampered by the absence of a spatial dimension. Drawing on critical political geography, the article develops a concept of "distant intimacy" that explores the spatial characteristics of the relationship between drone deployers and their targets, revealing that the asymmetry of this relationship extends beyond conventional analysis to establish "dronespace" as a place where the autonomy of the target and the possibility of reciprocity are structurally precluded. This extends ethical critique of drone use beyond established concerns and establishes the importance of space and spatiality to the possibility of ethics in a way that just war theory has, to date, been unable to fully appreciate.
In: Asian studies review, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 525-527
ISSN: 1467-8403
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 93-110
ISSN: 0892-6794
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In: Guide to the English School in International Studies, S. 127-142