Special Issue Emerging Technologies And Strategic Stability

Author : Todd S. Sechser,Neil Narang,Caitlin Talmadge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000485561

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Emerging Technologies and International Stability by Todd S. Sechser,Neil Narang,Caitlin Talmadge Pdf

Technology has always played a central role in international politics; it shapes the ways states fight during wartime and compete during peacetime. Today, rapid advancements have contributed to a widespread sense that the world is again on the precipice of a new technological era. Emerging technologies have inspired much speculative commentary, but academic scholarship can improve the discussion with disciplined theory-building and rigorous empirics. This book aims to contribute to the debate by exploring the role of technology – both military and non-military – in shaping international security. Specifically, the contributors to this edited volume aim to generate new theoretical insights into the relationship between technology and strategic stability, test them with sound empirical methods, and derive their implications for the coming technological age. This book is very novel in its approach. It covers a wide range of technologies, both old and new, rather than emphasizing a single technology. Furthermore, this volume looks at how new technologies might affect the broader dynamics of the international system rather than limiting the focus to a stability. The contributions to this volume walk readers through the likely effects of emerging technologies at each phase of the conflict process. The chapters begin with competition in peacetime, move to deterrence and coercion, and then explore the dynamics of crises, the outbreak of conflict, and war escalation in an environment of emerging technologies. The chapters in this book, except for the Introduction and the Conclusion, were originally published in the Journal of Strategic Studies.

Author : James Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526145057

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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Warfare by James Johnson Pdf

Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare sketches a clear picture of the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the digitized battlefield, broadening our understanding of critical questions facing decisions-makers. This book demystifies the hype surrounding AI in the context of nuclear weapons and, more broadly, future warfare. Specifically, it highlights the potential, multifaceted intersections of this disruptive technology with nuclear stability. The inherently destabilizing effects of AI in the military sphere may exacerbate tension between nuclear-armed great powers - especially China and the United States - but not for the reasons you may think.

Author : Michael Raska,Katarzyna Zysk,Ian Bowers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000563795

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Defence Innovation and the 4th Industrial Revolution by Michael Raska,Katarzyna Zysk,Ian Bowers Pdf

This book examines the implications of disruptive technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) on military innovation and the use of force. It provides an in-depth understanding of how both large and small militaries are seeking to leverage 4IR emerging technologies and the effects such technologies may have on future conflicts. The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), the confluence of disruptive changes brought by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnologies, and autonomous systems, has a profound impact on the direction and character of military innovation and use of force. The core themes in this edited volume reflect on the position of emerging technologies in the context of previous Revolutions in Military Affairs; compare how large resource-rich states (US, China, Russia) and small resource-limited states (Israel, Sweden, Norway) are adopting and integrating novel technologies and explore the difference between various innovation and adaptation models. The book also examines the operational implications of emerging technologies in potential flashpoints such as the South China Sea and the Baltic Sea. Written by a group of international scholars, this book uncovers the varying 4IR defence innovation trajectories, enablers, and constraints in pursuing military-technological advantages that will shape the character of future conflicts. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies.

Author : Gregory D. Koblentz
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
ISBN : 9780876096116

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Strategic Stability in the Second Nuclear Age by Gregory D. Koblentz Pdf

The world has entered a second nuclear age shaped by rising nuclear states and military technologies. Gregory Koblentz argues that the United States should work with the other nuclear-armed states to manage threats to nuclear stability in the near term and establish processes for multilateral arms control efforts over the longer term.

Author : Yoram Evron,Richard A. Bitzinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009333313

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Military-Civil Fusion by Yoram Evron,Richard A. Bitzinger Pdf

Advanced commercial technologies offer new opportunities for defense applications that could greatly affect military power and metrics of military advantage. This is relevant when it comes to civilian-based technological innovations found in the emerging 'fourth industrial revolution,' such as artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, 'big data,' and quantum computing. Militaries and governments around the world are increasingly focused on how and where advanced commercial technologies, innovations, and breakthroughs could potentially create new capacities for military power, advantage, and leverage. This process of exploiting civilian-based advanced technologies is referred to as 'military–civil fusion' (MCF). This book addresses MCF not only from a conceptual and practical sense but also comparatively as it explores how four different countries – the United States, China, India, and Israel – are attempting to use MCF to support national military-technological innovation. It will interest scholars, researchers, and advanced students of military, security, and technology studies, as well as analysts and policymakers in military and defense organizations.

Author : Gitanjali Adlakha-Hutcheon,Anthony Masys
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031066368

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Disruption, Ideation and Innovation for Defence and Security by Gitanjali Adlakha-Hutcheon,Anthony Masys Pdf

This book explores types of disruptions in defence and security, ways to assess disruptions triggered by technological advancements or the lack of legal frameworks; the consequent delays or disruptions to making decisions, creative idea generation and finally the innovative pathways to counter such disruptions. What do disruption, ideation and innovation have in common? How do disruptions, ideas and innovation coexist within defence and security? They all influence and impact decision-making. Disruptions drive decision-making. Ideation raises solutions to resolve the disruptions and innovation brings ideas into life. While disruptions may be common place in the business world, where disruptive technologies displace pre-existing ones; they are less prevalent in defence, even less so within the realm of security. For the last 10 years, there has been talk of disruptive technologies and even adoption of terms such as emerging and disruptive technologies by the largest military alliance—NATO, yet the means to assess these remain elusive. It offers researchers opportunities to assess different types of disruptions, ideate and innovate on scientific grounds to counter disruptions, thereby bolstering the defence and security community’s ability to make decisions better.

Author : Lawrence Rubin,Adam N. Stulberg
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626166042

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The End of Strategic Stability? by Lawrence Rubin,Adam N. Stulberg Pdf

During the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would compete for global influence but would be deterred from using nuclear weapons. In actuality, both sides understood strategic stability and deterrence quite differently. Today’s international system is further complicated by more nuclear powers, regional rivalries, and nonstate actors who punch above their weight, but the United States and other nuclear powers still cling to old conceptions of strategic stability. The purpose of this book is to unpack and examine how different states in different regions view strategic stability, the use or non-use of nuclear weapons, and whether or not strategic stability is still a prevailing concept. The contributors to this volume explore policies of current and potential nuclear powers including the United States, Russia, China, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. This volume makes an important contribution toward understanding how nuclear weapons will impact the international system in the twenty-first century and will be useful to students, scholars, and practitioners of nuclear weapons policy.

Author : Reuben Steff,Joe Burton,Simona R. Soare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000284577

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Emerging Technologies and International Security by Reuben Steff,Joe Burton,Simona R. Soare Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : National security
ISBN : MINN:30000010514267

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National Security Issues by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rebecca K.C. Hersman,Reja Younis,Bryce Farabaugh,Bethany Goldblum,Andrew Reddie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442281547

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Under the Nuclear Shadow by Rebecca K.C. Hersman,Reja Younis,Bryce Farabaugh,Bethany Goldblum,Andrew Reddie Pdf

Improvements to strategic situational awareness (SA)—the ability to characterize the operating environment, detect and respond to threats, and discern actual attacks from false alarms across the spectrum of conflict—have long been assumed to reduce the risk of conflict and help manage crises more successfully when they occur. However, with the development of increasingly capable strategic SA-related technology, growing comingling of conventional and nuclear SA requirements and capabilities, and the increasing risk of conventional conflict between nuclear-armed adversaries, this may no longer be the case. The Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the University of California, Berkeley’s Nuclear Policy Working Group undertook a two-year study to examine the implications of emerging situational awareness technologies for managing crises between nuclear-armed adversaries.

Author : Ji Whan Ahn
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039289950

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Emerging Technologies and Solutions for the Sustainable Climate Change Challenges by Ji Whan Ahn Pdf

The Special Issue/book introduces advanced techniques and research that have helped to reduce CO2 emissions and to use CO2 for the manufacturing of valuable products. This book refers the research trends and emerging technologies contributing to the mitigation of current climate change. It covers multidisciplinary research topics such as carbon mineralization, solid waste management, and convergence technologies for sustainable solutions for climate change.

Author : Alexander Kmentt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000393484

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The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons by Alexander Kmentt Pdf

This book chronicles the genesis of the negotiations that led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which challenged the established nuclear order. The work provides readers with an authoritative account of the complex evolution of the ‘Humanitarian Initiative’ (HI) and the negotiation history of the TPNW. It includes a close analysis of internal strategy documents and communications in the author’s possession which trace the tactical and political decisions of a small group of state actors. By demonstrating the unacceptable humanitarian consequences and uncontrollable risks that these weapons pose to everyone’s security, the HI convinced many states to ban nuclear weapons and reject the policy of nuclear deterrence as unsustainable and illegitimate. As such, this book is a case-study of multilateral diplomacy and cooperation between state and civil society actors. It also contains a full discussion of both sides of the nuclear argument and assesses the extent to which the HI and the TPNW have moved the dial and present opportunities for transformational change. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation, diplomacy, global governance, and International Relations in general.

Author : Anthony H. Cordesman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1043 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000230185

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The Gulf And The Search For Strategic Stability by Anthony H. Cordesman Pdf

This book provides an extensive military and strategic analysis of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, assessing the regional military balance, the internal security and stability of each Gulf nation, the evolution of each nation's forces from 1969 into 1983, and the impact of defense spending and Western and Soviet-bloc arms sales in the region. Comprehensive statistics are provided on arms transfers to each country since 1969 and on the forces each nation is capable of deploying in the Gulf.

Author : Russian Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Sciences,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control,Joint Committee on Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309468916

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Regional Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability by Russian Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Sciences,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control,Joint Committee on Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability Pdf

As ballistic missile technology proliferates, and as ballistic missile defenses are deployed by both the Russian Federation and the United States, it is increasingly important for these two countries to seek ways to reap the benefits of systems that can protect their own national security interests against limited missile attacks from third countries without undermining the strategic balance that the two governments maintain to ensure stability. Regional Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability examines both the technical implications of planned missile defense deployments for Russian and U.S. strategic deterrents and the benefits and disadvantages of a range of options for cooperation on missile defense.

Author : Jagannath P. Panda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000030464

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The Korean Peninsula and Indo-Pacific Power Politics by Jagannath P. Panda Pdf

This book assesses the strategic linkages that the Korean Peninsula shares with the Indo-Pacific and provides a succinct picture of issues which will shape the trajectory of the Korean Peninsula in the future. This book analyses how critical actors such as the United States, China, Russia and Japan are caught in a tightly balanced power struggle affecting the Korean Peninsula. It shows how these countries are exerting control over the Korean Peninsula while also holding on to their status as critical actors in the broader Indo-Pacific. The prospects of peace, stability and unity in the Korean Peninsula and the impact of this on Indo-Pacific power politics are explored as well as the contending and competing interests in the region. Chapters present country-specific positions and approaches as case studies and review the impact of power politics on stakeholders’ relationships in the Indo-Pacific. The book also argues that the Korean Peninsula and the issue of denuclearization is of primary importance to any direction an Indo-Pacific Partnership may take. Bringing together scholars, journalists and ex-diplomats, this book will be of interest to academics working in the field of international relations, foreign policy, security studies and Asian studies as well as audiences interested