Routledge Handbook of War, Law and Technology
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.
關於作者
James Gow is Professor of International Peace and Security and Co-Director of the War Crimes Research Group at King’s College London, UK.
Ernst Dijxhoorn
is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Rachel Kerr
is Reader in International Relations and Contemporary War and Co-Director of the War Crimes Research Group at King’s College London, UK.Guglielmo Verdirame
is Professor of International Law at the Department of War Studies and the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, UK.