التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
The evolution of targeted killing practices: Autonomous weapons, future conflict, and the international order. |
| المؤلفون: |
Haas, Michael Carl1, Fischer, Sophie-Charlotte1 |
| المصدر: |
Contemporary Security Policy. Aug2017, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p281-306. 26p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*INTERNATIONAL relations, AERIAL weapons |
| مستخلص: |
This article examines the potential use of autonomous aerial weapons for targeted killing purposes and, in doing so, looks beyond the now-familiar “global war on terror.” We argue that the combination of novel capabilities with the pre-existing military-theoretical frameworks of advanced Western states, within which autonomous weapons will be embedded, may be conducive to an expansion of targeted killings to scenarios other than military counter-terrorism. The confluence of autonomous weapons and targeted killing practices may therefore lead to a further weakening of long-standing norms regulating the use of force, including in interstate scenarios. We also find that international regulation is unlikely to forestall this outcome, and that political-military insistence on centralized operational control may mitigate—but not negate—the disruptive potential of these developments. As a result, the possible consequences for the international order of an evolution of targeted killing practices along these lines should not be underestimated. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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