Political Minefields

The Struggle against Automated Killing

AvMatthew Breay Bolton

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Thousands of people around the world are maimed and killed by landmines and unexploded ammunition every year. International law classifies landmines as 'evil in themselves', but minefields are expressions of 'political minefields' that create them and allow them to persist. In this travelogue through Iraq, Laos, Cambodia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Sudan, South Sudan and New York City, we follow Matthew Bolton's quest for solutions to the landmine crisis and emerging autonomous weapons. Throughout his journey we meet deminers, paramilitaries, journalists, mercenaries, diplomats, aid workers, and campaigners working in and around the minefields. It is a must-read for those working to alleviate the devastation of war.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-20
Mått:140 x 214 x 20 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781780761596

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Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Matthew Breay Bolton is associate professor of political science at Pace University in New York City. He has participated in the global campaigns on landmines, cluster munitions, killer robots and the arms trade. Since 2014, Bolton has worked on the UN and New York City advocacy of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Matthew Bolton documents his experience working in humanitarian fieldwork, diplomatic settings, and academia. He approaches efforts to eradicate landmines and tackle other problematic weapons through the inclusive lens of human security as opposed to more narrowly focused national security concerns. Bolton examines the “depersonalization of killing” that has accompanied the use of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones and flags the need to tackle the multiple challenges posed by fully autonomous armed robots. Throughout Bolton emphasizes the role of civil society to show how when ordinary people work together they can achieve extraordinary impact.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword, Jody Williams, Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize co-Laureate 1. Explosive Traps: An Introduction 2. Bombies: Automated Air War, Laos3. Perfect Soldiers: Proxy War, Cambodia4. Fragmentation: New War, Bosnia5. Detritus: War on Terror, Afghanistan6. Red Roads: Everywhere War, Sudan and South Sudan7. Killer Robots: Digital War, USASurvivorhood: Epilogue, United NationsAcknowledgementsAcronymsNotesIndex