1st Edition
Emerging Technologies and International Security Machines, the State, and War
Introduction: Machines, the State and War
Reuben Steff, Joe Burton and Simona R. Soare
1. Histories of Technologies: Society, the State and the Emergence of Postmodern Warfare
Joe Burton
Section I: The Machine and the International System
2. Emerging Technologies and the Chinese Challenge to US Innovation Leadership
James Johnson
3. Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Small States
Reuben Steff
4. Artificial Intelligence and the Military Balance of Power: Interrogating the US-China Confrontation
Reuben Steff and Khusrow Abbasi
5. Mitigating Accidental War: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and De-Escalation Strategies
Aiden Warren and Alek Hillas
Section II: Emerging Technologies, the State and the Changing Character of Conflict
6. Politics in the Machine: The Political Context of Emerging Technologies, National Security and Great Power Competition
Simona R. Soare
7. Inequitable Internet. Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty through the Blockchain
Andrew Colarik and MAJ Richard Wilson
8. The Evolution of the Russian Way of Informatsionnaya Voyna
Sean Ainsworth
9. US Grand Strategy and the Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles during the George W. Bush Administration
Francis Okpaleke and Joe Burton
Section III: The State, Society and Non-State Actors
10. Cyber Autonomy: Automating the Hacker – Self-healing, Self-adaptive, Automatic Cyber Defense Systems and their Impact to the Industry, Society and National Security
Ryan K. L. Ko
11. The International Security Implications of 3D Printed Firearms
Pete Cook
12. Deepfakes and Synthetic Media
Curtis Barnes and Tom Barraclough
13. Cyber Threat Attribution, Trust and Confidence, and the Contestability of National Security Policy
William Hoverd
14. Disrupting Paradigms through New Technologies: Assessing the Potential of ‘Smart’ Water Points to Improve Water Security for Marginalized Communities
Nathan John Cooper
15. "Just wrong", "disgusting", "grotesque": How to Deal with Public Rejection of New Potentially Life-saving Technologies
Dan Weijers
Conclusion: Society, Security & Technology: Mapping a Fluid Relationship
Simona R. Soare
Biography
Reuben Steff is Senior Lecturer at the New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science and Political Science Programme, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Joe Burton is Senior Lecturer at the New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato, and a Marie Curie fellow (MSCA-IF) at Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Simona R. Soare is Senior Associate Analyst at European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), working on transatlantic defence.
