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Conflict in the 21st century : the impact of cyber warfare, social media, and technology
\"This reference work examines how sophisticated cyber-attacks and innovative use of social media have changed conflict in the digital realm, while new military technologies such as drones and robotic weaponry continue to have an impact on modern warfare\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Command and Control: The Sociotechnical Perspective
Military command and control is not merely evolving, it is co-evolving. Technology is creating new opportunities for different types of command and control, and new types of command and control are creating new aspirations for technology. The question is how to manage this process, how to achieve a jointly optimised blend of socio and technical and create the kind of agility and self-synchronisation that modern forms of command and control promise. The answer put forward in this book is to re-visit sociotechnical systems theory. In doing so, the problems of 21st century command and control can be approached from an alternative, multi-disciplinary and above all human-centred perspective.
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Strategic inventions of the Cold War
\"In the years following World War II, a new kind of war gripped the world. This was not a war fought on a battlefield but a war fought in the mind and through willpower and demonstrations of strength. The Cold War, as this conflict became known, lasted from the 1950s to the 1980s. It was a time that saw many new technologies emerge. Among them were ballistic missiles, the M1 Abrams tank, and the television. This book details the events of the Cold War, the need for these technologies, and the impact these advancements had on societies of the past as well as today.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Emerging technologies and international security
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.
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Communication, digital media, and popular culture in Korea
In recent decades, Korean communication and media have substantially grown to become some of the most significant segments of Korean society. Since the early 1990s, Korea has experienced several distinctive changes in its politics, economy, and technology, which are directly related to the development of local media and culture. Korea has greatly developed several cutting-edge technologies, such as smartphones, video games, and mobile instant messengers to become the most networked society throughout the world. As the Korean Wave exemplifies, the once small and peripheral Korea has also created several unique local popular cultures, including television programs, movies, and popular music, known as K-pop, and these products have penetrated many parts of the world. As Korean media and popular culture have rapidly grown, the number of media scholars and topics covering these areas in academic discourses has increased. These scholars’ interests have expanded from traditional media, such as Korean journalism and cinema, to several new cutting-edge areas, like digital technologies, health communication, and LGBT-related issues. In celebrating the Korean American Communication Association’s fortieth anniversary in 2018, this book documents and historicizes the growth of growing scholarship in the realm of Korean media and communication.
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Death Dust
The postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets. Death Dust explores the largely unknown history of the development of radiological weapons (RW)-weapons designed to disperse radioactive material without a nuclear detonation-through a series of comparative case studies across the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Iraq, and Egypt. The authors illuminate the historical drivers of and impediments to radiological weapons innovation. They also examine how new, dire geopolitical events-such as the war in Ukraine-could encourage other states to pursue RW and analyze the impact of the spread of such weapons on nuclear deterrence and the nonproliferation regime. Death Dust presents practical, necessary steps to reduce the likelihood of a resurgence of interest in and pursuit of radiological weapons by state actors.
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Artificial Intelligence and Global Security
Artificial Intelligence and Global Security: Future Trends, Threats and Considerations brings a much-needed perspective on the impact of the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in military affairs. Experts forecast that AI will shape future military operations in ways that will revolutionize warfare.
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Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms
In Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms Ingvild Bode and Hendrik Huelss present an innovative analysis of how testing, developing, and using weapons systems with autonomous features shapes ethical and legal norms, arguing that they have already established standards for what counts as meaningful human control.
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Future Peace
Future Peace urges extreme caution in the
adoption of new weapons technology and is an impassioned plea for
peace from an individual who spent decades preparing for
war.
Today's militaries are increasingly reliant on highly networked
autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced weapons
that were previously the domain of science fiction writers. In a
world where these complex technologies clash with escalating
international tensions, what can we do to decrease the chances of
war? In Future Peace , the eagerly awaited sequel to
Future War , Robert H. Latiff questions our overreliance on
technology and examines the pressure-cooker scenario created by the
growing animosity between the United States and its adversaries,
our globally deployed and thinly stretched military, the capacity
for advanced technology to catalyze violence, and the American
public's lack of familiarity with these topics.
Future Peace describes the many provocations to
violence and how technologies are abetting those urges, and it
explores what can be done to mitigate not only dangerous human
behaviors but also dangerous technical behaviors. Latiff concludes
that peace is possible but will require intense, cooperative
efforts on the part of technologists, military leaders, diplomats,
politicians, and citizens. Future Peace amplifies some
well-known ideas about how to address the issues, and provides
far-, mid-, and short-term recommendations for actions that are
necessary to reverse the apparent headlong rush into conflict. This
compelling and timely book will captivate general readers,
students, and scholars of global affairs, international security,
arms control, and military ethics.
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