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This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of emerging
technologies and their impact on the new international security
environment across three levels of analysis. While recent
technological developments, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI),
robotics and automation, have the potential to transform
international relations in positive ways, they also pose challenges
to peace and security and raise new ethical, legal and political
questions about the use of power and the role of humans in war and
conflict. This book makes a contribution to these debates by
considering emerging technologies across three levels of analysis:
(1) the international system (systemic level) including the balance
of power; (2) the state and its role in international affairs and
how these technologies are redefining and challenging the state's
traditional roles; and (3) the relationship between the state and
society, including how these technologies affect individuals and
non-state actors. This provides specific insights at each of these
levels and generates a better understanding of the connections
between the international and the local when it comes to
technological advance across time and space The chapters examine
the implications of these technologies for the balance of power,
examining the strategies of the US, Russia, and China to harness
AI, robotics and automation (and how their militaries and private
corporations are responding); how smaller and less powerful states
and non-state actors are adjusting; the political, ethical and
legal implications of AI and automation; what these technologies
mean for how war and power is understood and utilized in the 21st
century; and how these technologies diffuse power away from the
state to society, individuals and non-state actors. This volume
will be of much interest to students of international security,
science and technology studies, law, philosophy, and international
relations.
This book investigates the drivers, tactics, and strategy that
propel the Trump administration's foreign policy. The key objective
of this book is to look beyond the 'noise' of the Trump presidency
in order to elucidate and make sense of contemporary US foreign
policy. It examines the long-standing convictions of the president
and the brutal worldview that he applies to US foreign policy; and
his hard-line negotiation tactics and employment of
unpredictability to keep America's major foreign interlocutors
off-guard, such as NATO members, China, Mexico, Canada, North
Korea, and Iran - each of which are considered here. In strategy
terms, the book explains that the president is responding to a new
multipolar structure of power by engaging a Kissingerian strategy
that eschews liberal values and seeks to adjust great power
relations in Washington's favor. By drawing upon a range of
evidence and case studies, this book makes a number of compelling
and provocative points to offer a new vector for debate about the
workings, successes and failures, and ultimately the long-term
implications for the world, of the Trump presidency. This book will
be of much interest to students of US foreign policy, security
studies, and IR in general.
This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of emerging
technologies and their impact on the new international security
environment across three levels of analysis. While recent
technological developments, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI),
robotics and automation, have the potential to transform
international relations in positive ways, they also pose challenges
to peace and security and raise new ethical, legal and political
questions about the use of power and the role of humans in war and
conflict. This book makes a contribution to these debates by
considering emerging technologies across three levels of analysis:
(1) the international system (systemic level) including the balance
of power; (2) the state and its role in international affairs and
how these technologies are redefining and challenging the state's
traditional roles; and (3) the relationship between the state and
society, including how these technologies affect individuals and
non-state actors. This provides specific insights at each of these
levels and generates a better understanding of the connections
between the international and the local when it comes to
technological advance across time and space The chapters examine
the implications of these technologies for the balance of power,
examining the strategies of the US, Russia, and China to harness
AI, robotics and automation (and how their militaries and private
corporations are responding); how smaller and less powerful states
and non-state actors are adjusting; the political, ethical and
legal implications of AI and automation; what these technologies
mean for how war and power is understood and utilized in the 21st
century; and how these technologies diffuse power away from the
state to society, individuals and non-state actors. This volume
will be of much interest to students of international security,
science and technology studies, law, philosophy, and international
relations.
This book investigates the drivers, tactics, and strategy that
propel the Trump administration's foreign policy. The key objective
of this book is to look beyond the 'noise' of the Trump presidency
in order to elucidate and make sense of contemporary US foreign
policy. It examines the long-standing convictions of the president
and the brutal worldview that he applies to US foreign policy; and
his hard-line negotiation tactics and employment of
unpredictability to keep America's major foreign interlocutors
off-guard, such as NATO members, China, Mexico, Canada, North
Korea, and Iran - each of which are considered here. In strategy
terms, the book explains that the president is responding to a new
multipolar structure of power by engaging a Kissingerian strategy
that eschews liberal values and seeks to adjust great power
relations in Washington's favor. By drawing upon a range of
evidence and case studies, this book makes a number of compelling
and provocative points to offer a new vector for debate about the
workings, successes and failures, and ultimately the long-term
implications for the world, of the Trump presidency. This book will
be of much interest to students of US foreign policy, security
studies, and IR in general.
A systematic critical survey of American strategic thinking and the
strategic culture in which it is formed. In particular, this book
seeks to interrogate the theory and strategy of nuclear deterrence,
and its relationship to the concept of missile defence. Drawing
widely on the theoretical literature in international relations and
strategic studies, it identifies the key groups that have competed
over America's nuclear policy post-1945 and examines how the
concept of missile defence went through a process of gestation and
intellectual contestation, leading to its eventual legitimization
in the late 1990s. Steff sheds light on the individuals, groups,
institutions and processes that led to the decision by the Bush
administration to deploy a national missile defence shield.
Additionally, Steff systematically examines the impact deployment
had on the calculations of Russia and China. In the process he
explains that their reactions under the Bush administration have
continued into the Obama era, revealing that a new great power
security dilemma has broken out. This, Steff shows, has led to a
decline in great power relations as a consequence.
A systematic critical survey of American strategic thinking and the
strategic culture in which it is formed. In particular, this book
seeks to interrogate the theory and strategy of nuclear deterrence,
and its relationship to the concept of missile defence. Drawing
widely on the theoretical literature in international relations and
strategic studies, it identifies the key groups that have competed
over America's nuclear policy post-1945 and examines how the
concept of missile defence went through a process of gestation and
intellectual contestation, leading to its eventual legitimization
in the late 1990s. Steff sheds light on the individuals, groups,
institutions and processes that led to the decision by the Bush
administration to deploy a national missile defence shield.
Additionally, Steff systematically examines the impact deployment
had on the calculations of Russia and China. In the process he
explains that their reactions under the Bush administration have
continued into the Obama era, revealing that a new great power
security dilemma has broken out. This, Steff shows, has led to a
decline in great power relations as a consequence.
This volume in the Weapons of Mass Destruction series makes the
case that the United States' expansive missile defence policy has
eroded both its own security and that of its allies. These findings
are based on an examination of the response of a number of key
states to U.S. policy, including Russia, China, North Korea and
Iran. Situating their argument in the theoretical debate on
balancing in unipolarity, the authors contrast their view to
influential perspectives that see little evidence of hard balancing
against the U.S. in the post-Cold War era. Adopting a neorealist
perspective, the authors demonstrate the clear presence of this
inter-state practice, providing insight into the international
politics of unipolarity, showing how hard balancing and security
dilemma-related dynamics operate in the contemporary strategic
environment.
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