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This book examines the military characteristics and potential of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the new global revolution in
military affairs. Offering an original perspective on the
utilization, imagination, and politics of AI in the context of
military development and weapons regulation, the work provides a
comprehensive response to the question of how we might reflect on
the AI revolution in warfare and what can be said about the ways in
which this has been handled. In the first part of the book, AI is
accommodated, both theoretically and empirically, in the strategic
context of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA). The book
offers a novel understanding of autonomous weapons as multi-layered
composite systems, pointing to a complex, non-linear interplay
between evolutionary and revolutionary dynamics. In the second
section, the book provides an impartial analysis of the related
politics and operations of power, whereby increases in military
budgets and R&D of the great powers are met and countered by
advocacy networks and scientists campaigning for a ban on lethal
autonomous weapons. As such, it moves beyond popular caricatures of
'killer robots' and points out some of the problems which result
from over-reliance on such imagery. This book will be of much
interest to students of strategic studies, critical security
studies, arms control and disarmament, science and technology
studies and general International Relations.
This novel and original book examines and disaggregates,
theoretically and empirically, operations of power in international
security regimes. These regimes, varying in degree from regulatory
to prohibitory, are understood as sets of normative discourses,
political structures and dependencies (anarchies, hierarchies, and
heterarchies), and agencies through which power operates within a
given security issue area with a regulatory effect. In
International Relations, regime analysis has been dominated by
several generations of regime theory/theorization. As this book
makes clear, not only has the IR Regime Theory been of limited
utility for security domain due to its heavy focus on economic and
environmental regimes, but it, too, heuristically suffered from its
rigid pegging to general IR Theory. It is not surprising then that
the evolution of IR Regime Theory has largely been mirroring the
evolution of IR Theory in general: from the neo-realist/neo-liberal
institutionalist convergence regime theory; through cognitivism; to
constructivist regime theory. The commitment of this book is to
remedy this situation by bringing together robust power analysis
and international security regimes. It provides the reader with a
theoretically and empirically uncompromising and comprehensive
analysis of the selected international security regimes, which goes
beyond one or another school of IR Regime Theory. In doing so, it
completely abandons existing, and piecemeal, analysis of regimes
within the intellectual field of IR based on conventional
grand/mid-range theorization.
This novel and original book examines and disaggregates,
theoretically and empirically, operations of power in international
security regimes. These regimes, varying in degree from regulatory
to prohibitory, are understood as sets of normative discourses,
political structures and dependencies (anarchies, hierarchies, and
heterarchies), and agencies through which power operates within a
given security issue area with a regulatory effect. In
International Relations, regime analysis has been dominated by
several generations of regime theory/theorization. As this book
makes clear, not only has the IR Regime Theory been of limited
utility for security domain due to its heavy focus on economic and
environmental regimes, but it, too, heuristically suffered from its
rigid pegging to general IR Theory. It is not surprising then that
the evolution of IR Regime Theory has largely been mirroring the
evolution of IR Theory in general: from the neo-realist/neo-liberal
institutionalist convergence regime theory; through cognitivism; to
constructivist regime theory. The commitment of this book is to
remedy this situation by bringing together robust power analysis
and international security regimes. It provides the reader with a
theoretically and empirically uncompromising and comprehensive
analysis of the selected international security regimes, which goes
beyond one or another school of IR Regime Theory. In doing so, it
completely abandons existing, and piecemeal, analysis of regimes
within the intellectual field of IR based on conventional
grand/mid-range theorization.
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