Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs: Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs
About the Book Series
This series examines the crucial ethical, legal and public policy questions arising from or exacerbated by the design, development and eventual adoption of new technologies across all related fields, from education and engineering to medicine and military affairs. The books revolve around two key themes: ¢ Moral issues in research, engineering and design ¢ Ethical, legal and political/policy issues in the use and regulation of Technology This series encourages submission of cutting-edge research monographs and edited collections with a particular focus on forward-looking ideas concerning innovative or as yet undeveloped technologies. Whilst there is an expectation that authors will be well grounded in philosophy, law or political science, consideration will be given to future-orientated works that cross these disciplinary boundaries. The interdisciplinary nature of the series editorial team offers the best possible examination of works that address the ’ethical, legal and social’ implications of emerging technologies.
Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design and Implementation
1st Edition
By Aimee van Wynsberghe
June 30, 2021
This study deals with an underexplored area of the emerging technologies debate: robotics in the healthcare setting. The author explores the role of care and develops a value-sensitive ethical framework for the eventual employment of care robots. Highlighting the range of positive and negative ...
Social Robots: Boundaries, Potential, Challenges
1st Edition
By Marco Nørskov
June 30, 2021
Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations. The transformational potential that these machines, in the form of, for example, caregiving, entertainment or partner robots, pose to our societies and to us as ...
Technology and Agency in International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Marijn Hoijtink, Matthias Leese
June 30, 2021
This book responds to a gap in the literature in International Relations (IR) by integrating technology more systematically into analyses of global politics.Technology facilitates, accelerates, automates, and exercises capabilities that are greater than human abilities. And yet, within IR, the role...
Technology, Ethics and the Protocols of Modern War
1st Edition
Edited
By Artur Gruszczak, Pawel Frankowski
June 30, 2021
Contemporary security has expanded its meaning, content and structure in response to globalisation and the emergence of greatly improved world-wide communication. The protocols of modern warfare, including targeted killing, enhanced interrogations, mass electronic surveillance and the ...
Cyber Attacks and International Law on the Use of Force: The Turn to Information Ethics
1st Edition
By Samuli Haataja
December 18, 2020
Examining the thematic intersection of law, technology and violence, this book explores cyber attacks against states and current international law on the use of force. The theory of information ethics is used to critique the law’s conception of violence and to develop an informational approach as ...
Drones and Responsibility: Legal, Philosophical and Socio-Technical Perspectives on Remotely Controlled Weapons
1st Edition
By Ezio Di Nucci, Filippo Santoni de Sio
July 29, 2019
How does the use of military drones affect the legal, political, and moral responsibility of different actors involved in their deployment and design? This volume offers a fresh contribution to the ethics of drone warfare by providing, for the first time, a systematic interdisciplinary discussion ...
Surveillance Futures: Social and Ethical Implications of New Technologies for Children and Young People
1st Edition
By Emmeline Taylor, Tonya Rooney
July 29, 2019
From birth to adulthood, children now find themselves navigating a network of surveillance devices that attempt to identify, quantify, sort and track their thoughts, movements and actions. This book is the first collection to focus exclusively on technological surveillance and young people. ...
Military Neuroscience and the Coming Age of Neurowarfare
1st Edition
By Armin Krishnan
August 14, 2018
Krishnan describes military applications of neuroscience research and emerging neurotechnology with relevance to the conduct of armed conflict and law enforcement. This work builds upon literature by scholars such as Moreno and Giordano and fills an existing gap, not only in terms of reviewing ...
The Good Drone
1st Edition
By Kristin Sandvik, Maria Jumbert
July 27, 2018
While the military use of drones has been the subject of much scrutiny, the use of drones for humanitarian purposes has so far received little attention. As the starting point for this study, it is argued that the prospect of using drones for humanitarian and other life-saving activities has ...
Super Soldiers: The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
1st Edition
By Jai Galliott, Mianna Lotz
October 12, 2017
The Spartan City State produced what is probably one of the most iconic and ruthless military forces in recorded history. They believed that military training and education began at birth. Post-World War II saw a shift to army tanks, fighter jets and missiles that would go on to fight the next huge...
Legitimacy and Drones: Investigating the Legality, Morality and Efficacy of UCAVs
1st Edition
By Steven J. Barela
June 16, 2017
Unmanned combat air vehicles, or in common parlance 'drones', have become a prominent instrument in US efforts to counter an objective (and subjective) cross-border terrorist threat with lethal force. As a result, critical questions abound on the legitimacy of their use. In a series of ...