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Rapid technological advances in the field of robotics and
autonomous systems (RAS) are transforming the international
security environment and the conduct of contemporary conflict.
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. Technologically driven
change in the international security environment can come about
through the development of one significant technology, such as the
atomic bomb. At other times, it results from several technologies
maturing at roughly the same pace. This second image better
reflects the rapid technological change that is taking us into the
robotics age. Many of the chapters in this edited volume explore
unresolved ethical, legal, and operational challenges that are only
likely to become more complex as RAS technology matures. Though the
precise ways in which the impact of autonomous systems – both
physical and non-physical – will be felt in the long-run is
hidden from us, attempting to anticipate the direction of travel
remains an important undertaking and one that this book makes a
critical effort to contend with. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal Small Wars
& Insurgencies.
This book explores the most important strategic questions about the
emerging Indo-Pacific region by offering an incisive analysis on
the current and future patterns of competition and cooperation of
key nations in the region. Examining emerging policies of
cooperation and conflict adopted by Indo-Pacific states in response
to a rising China, the book offers insights into the evolving
Indo-Pacific visions and strategies being developed in Japan,
India, Australia and the US in reaction to shifting geopolitical
realities. The book provides evidence of geopolitical advances in
what some see as a spatially coherent maritime zone stretching from
the eastern Pacific to the western Indian Ocean, including small
island states and countries that line its littoral. It also
analyzes the development and operationalization of Indo-Pacific
policies and strategies of various key nations. Contributors
provide both macro and micro perspectives to this critically
significant topic, offering insights into the grand strategies of
great powers as well as case studies ranging from the Philippines
to the Maldives to Kenya. The book suggests that new rivalries,
shifting alliances and economic ebbs and flows in the Indo-Pacific
will generate new geopolitical realities and shape much else beyond
in the twenty-first century. A timely contribution to the rapidly
expanding policy and scholarly discussions about what is likely to
be the defining region for international politics for coming
generations, the book will be of interest to policymakers as well
as students and academics in the fields of International Relations,
Foreign Policy, Security Studies, Diplomacy and International Law,
East and South Asian Studies, East African Studies, Middle East
Studies, and Australian Studies.
Rapid technological advances in the field of robotics and
autonomous systems (RAS) are transforming the international
security environment and the conduct of contemporary conflict.
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. Technologically driven
change in the international security environment can come about
through the development of one significant technology, such as the
atomic bomb. At other times, it results from several technologies
maturing at roughly the same pace. This second image better
reflects the rapid technological change that is taking us into the
robotics age. Many of the chapters in this edited volume explore
unresolved ethical, legal, and operational challenges that are only
likely to become more complex as RAS technology matures. Though the
precise ways in which the impact of autonomous systems - both
physical and non-physical - will be felt in the long-run is hidden
from us, attempting to anticipate the direction of travel remains
an important undertaking and one that this book makes a critical
effort to contend with. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of the journal Small Wars &
Insurgencies.
This book explores the most important strategic questions about the
emerging Indo-Pacific region by offering an incisive analysis on
the current and future patterns of competition and cooperation of
key nations in the region. Examining emerging policies of
cooperation and conflict adopted by Indo-Pacific states in response
to a rising China, the book offers insights into the evolving
Indo-Pacific visions and strategies being developed in Japan,
India, Australia and the US in reaction to shifting geopolitical
realities. The book provides evidence of geopolitical advances in
what some see as a spatially coherent maritime zone stretching from
the eastern Pacific to the western Indian Ocean, including small
island states and countries that line its littoral. It also
analyzes the development and operationalization of Indo-Pacific
policies and strategies of various key nations. Contributors
provide both macro and micro perspectives to this critically
significant topic, offering insights into the grand strategies of
great powers as well as case studies ranging from the Philippines
to the Maldives to Kenya. The book suggests that new rivalries,
shifting alliances and economic ebbs and flows in the Indo-Pacific
will generate new geopolitical realities and shape much else beyond
in the twenty-first century. A timely contribution to the rapidly
expanding policy and scholarly discussions about what is likely to
be the defining region for international politics for coming
generations, the book will be of interest to policymakers as well
as students and academics in the fields of International Relations,
Foreign Policy, Security Studies, Diplomacy and International Law,
East and South Asian Studies, East African Studies, Middle East
Studies, and Australian Studies.
The British Empire employed a diverse range of strategies to
establish and then maintain control over its overseas territories
in the Middle East. This new interpretation of how Britain
maintained order, protected its interests and carried out its
defence obligations in the Gulf in the decades before its
withdrawal from the region in 1971 looks at how the British
government increasingly sought to achieve security with great
economy of force by building up local militaries instead of
deploying costly military forces from the home country. Benefitting
from the extensive use of recently declassified British Government
archival documents and India Office records, this highly original
narrative weighs the successes and failures of Britain's use of
'indirect rule' among the small states of Eastern Arabia, including
Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the seven Trucial States and Oman. Drawing
important lessons for scholars and policymakers about the
limitations of trying to outsource security to local partners,
Security in the Gulf is a remarkable study of the deployment of
British colonial policy in the Middle East before 1971.
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