Routledge Handbook of War Law and Technology

<p>This volume provides an authoritative cutting-edge resource on the characteristics of both technological and social change in warfare in the twenty-first century and the challenges such change presents to international law.</p><p></p><p>The character of contemporary warfare has recently undergone significant transformation in several important respects: the nature of the actors the changing technological capabilities available to them and the sites and spaces in which war is fought. These changes have augmented the phenomenon of non-obvious warfare making understanding warfare one of the key challenges. Such developments have been accompanied by significant flux and uncertainty in the international legal sphere. This handbook brings together a unique blend of expertise combining scholars and practitioners in science and technology international law strategy and policy in order properly to understand and identify the chief characteristics and features of a range of innovative developments means and processes in the context of obvious and non-obvious warfare. The handbook has six thematic sections:</p><p></p><ul> <br><br><p></p> <li>Law war and technology</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Cyber warfare</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Autonomy robotics and drones</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Synthetic biology</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>New frontiers</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>International perspectives.</li> <br><br> </ul><p></p><p>This interdisciplinary blend and the novel rich and insightful contribution that it makes across various fields will make this volume a crucial research tool and guide for practitioners scholars and students of war studies security studies technology and design ethics international relations and international law.</p>