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This volume provides an authoritative, cutting-edge resource on the
characteristics of both technological and social change in warfare
in the twenty-first century, and the challenges such change
presents to international law. The character of contemporary
warfare has recently undergone significant transformation in
several important respects: the nature of the actors, the changing
technological capabilities available to them, and the sites and
spaces in which war is fought. These changes have augmented the
phenomenon of non-obvious warfare, making understanding warfare one
of the key challenges. Such developments have been accompanied by
significant flux and uncertainty in the international legal sphere.
This handbook brings together a unique blend of expertise,
combining scholars and practitioners in science and technology,
international law, strategy and policy, in order properly to
understand and identify the chief characteristics and features of a
range of innovative developments, means and processes in the
context of obvious and non-obvious warfare. The handbook has six
thematic sections: Law, war and technology Cyber warfare Autonomy,
robotics and drones Synthetic biology New frontiers International
perspectives. This interdisciplinary blend and the novel, rich and
insightful contribution that it makes across various fields will
make this volume a crucial research tool and guide for
practitioners, scholars and students of war studies, security
studies, technology and design, ethics, international relations and
international law.
This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of
radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa. Concern
about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in
academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to
addressing it questioned. However, the basis for that questioning -
the need to investigate factors such as the historical and
socio-economic roots of militancy - is not developed, nor is it
substantiated in existing studies. The significant impact of
religiously motivated radicalisation and violence in West Africa
upon international security makes it essential to understand the
issues of militancy and violence in the region. In this volume, the
authors draw upon empirical research in West Africa to develop
understanding in these areas. Over the course of several chapters
written by leading experts in the field, the book successfully
blends historical and conceptual analysis with new empirical
research gathered from focus group discussions and research
interviews. Each of these core studies is structured around five
interrelated issues: tracing the antecedents of radicalisation;
monitoring trends; identifying actors; anticipating possibilities;
and analysing the strength of existing preventive mechanisms. This
book will be of much interest to students of African security,
African politics, radicalisation, political Islam, war and conflict
studies and security studies in general.
This book explores the intended and unintended impact of
international criminal justice on the legitimacy of quasi-state
entities (QSEs). In order to do so, the concept of 'quasi-state
entity' is introduced to distinguish actors in statehood conflicts
that aspire to statehood, and fulfil statehood functions to a
greater or lesser degree, including the capacity and willingness to
deploy armed force, but lack the status of sovereign statehood.
This work explores the ability of QSEs to create and maintain
legitimacy for their actions, institutions and statehood projects
in various constituencies simultaneously. It looks at how
legitimacy is a prerequisite for success of QSEs and, using
critical legitimacy theory, assesses the legitimating narratives of
QSEs and their statehood adversaries. The book links international
criminal justice to statehood projects of QSEs and their success
and legitimacy. It looks at the effects of international criminal
justice on the ability to create and maintain legitimacy of QSEs,
an approach that leads to new insights regarding international
courts and tribunals as entities competing with states over
statehood functions that increasingly have to take the legal
implications of their actions into consideration. Most important, a
close assessment of the legitimising narratives of QSEs, counter
narratives, and the messages sent by international criminal justice
with which QSEs have to deal, and their ability to overcome
legitimacy crises, provides insight on QSEs and the complex
processes of legitimation. This book will be of much interest to
students of international criminal justice, political violence,
security studies and IR.
This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of
radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa. Concern
about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in
academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to
addressing it questioned. However, the basis for that questioning -
the need to investigate factors such as the historical and
socio-economic roots of militancy - is not developed, nor is it
substantiated in existing studies. The significant impact of
religiously motivated radicalisation and violence in West Africa
upon international security makes it essential to understand the
issues of militancy and violence in the region. In this volume, the
authors draw upon empirical research in West Africa to develop
understanding in these areas. Over the course of several chapters
written by leading experts in the field, the book successfully
blends historical and conceptual analysis with new empirical
research gathered from focus group discussions and research
interviews. Each of these core studies is structured around five
interrelated issues: tracing the antecedents of radicalisation;
monitoring trends; identifying actors; anticipating possibilities;
and analysing the strength of existing preventive mechanisms. This
book will be of much interest to students of African security,
African politics, radicalisation, political Islam, war and conflict
studies and security studies in general.
This volume provides an authoritative, cutting-edge resource on the
characteristics of both technological and social change in warfare
in the twenty-first century, and the challenges such change
presents to international law. The character of contemporary
warfare has recently undergone significant transformation in
several important respects: the nature of the actors, the changing
technological capabilities available to them, and the sites and
spaces in which war is fought. These changes have augmented the
phenomenon of non-obvious warfare, making understanding warfare one
of the key challenges. Such developments have been accompanied by
significant flux and uncertainty in the international legal sphere.
This handbook brings together a unique blend of expertise,
combining scholars and practitioners in science and technology,
international law, strategy and policy, in order properly to
understand and identify the chief characteristics and features of a
range of innovative developments, means and processes in the
context of obvious and non-obvious warfare. The handbook has six
thematic sections: Law, war and technology Cyber warfare Autonomy,
robotics and drones Synthetic biology New frontiers International
perspectives. This interdisciplinary blend and the novel, rich and
insightful contribution that it makes across various fields will
make this volume a crucial research tool and guide for
practitioners, scholars and students of war studies, security
studies, technology and design, ethics, international relations and
international law.
This book explores the intended and unintended impact of
international criminal justice on the legitimacy of quasi-state
entities (QSEs). In order to do so, the concept of 'quasi-state
entity' is introduced to distinguish actors in statehood conflicts
that aspire to statehood, and fulfil statehood functions to a
greater or lesser degree, including the capacity and willingness to
deploy armed force, but lack the status of sovereign statehood.
This work explores the ability of QSEs to create and maintain
legitimacy for their actions, institutions and statehood projects
in various constituencies simultaneously. It looks at how
legitimacy is a prerequisite for success of QSEs and, using
critical legitimacy theory, assesses the legitimating narratives of
QSEs and their statehood adversaries. The book links international
criminal justice to statehood projects of QSEs and their success
and legitimacy. It looks at the effects of international criminal
justice on the ability to create and maintain legitimacy of QSEs,
an approach that leads to new insights regarding international
courts and tribunals as entities competing with states over
statehood functions that increasingly have to take the legal
implications of their actions into consideration. Most important, a
close assessment of the legitimising narratives of QSEs, counter
narratives, and the messages sent by international criminal justice
with which QSEs have to deal, and their ability to overcome
legitimacy crises, provides insight on QSEs and the complex
processes of legitimation. This book will be of much interest to
students of international criminal justice, political violence,
security studies and IR.
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