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> <p>1. Introduction: Technological Innovation, Non-Obvious Warfare and Challenges to International Law <i>Rachel Kerr </i><strong>Part I: Law, War and Technology </strong>2. Obvious and Non-Obvious: the Changing Character of Warfare <em>Ernst Dijxhoorn and </em><em>James Gow</em><em> </em>3. Weapons Law, Weapon Reviews and New Technologies <i>Bill Boothby </i>4. A Defence Technologist’s View of International Humanitarian Law <i>Tony Gillespie </i>5. Can the Law Regulate the Humanitarian Effects of New Technologies?<i> Brian Rappert </i><strong>Part</strong><em> </em><b>II: Cyber Warfare </b>6. Computer Network Attacks Under the <i>Jus ad Bellum</i> and the <i>Jus in Bello</i>: ‘Armed’ – Effects and Consequences <em>Elaine Korzak and </em><em>James Gow</em><em> </em>7. Computer Network Attacks Under the <i>Jus ad Bellum</i> and the <i>Jus in Bello</i>: Distinction, Proportionality, Ambiguity and Attribution <i>Elaine Korzak and James Gow </i>8. Proportionality in Cyber Targeting <i>Marco Roscini </i>9. Digital Intelligence and Armed Conflict after Snowden<i> Sir David Omand </i>10. The Ambiguities of Cyber Security: Offence and the Human Factor <em>James Gow </em><strong>Part III: Autonomy, Robotics and Drones </strong>11. Autonomy of Humans and Robots <em>Thrishantha Nanayakkara </em>12.<em> </em>Autonomous Agents and Command Responsibility <i>Jack McDonald </i>13. Legal-Policy Challenges of Armed Drones and Autonomous Weapon Systems <i>Matthew C. Waxman and Kenneth Anderson </i>14. The ‘Robots Don’t Rape’ Controversy <em>Maziar Homayounnejad and Richard E. Overill </em>15. Humanity and Lethal Robots: an Engineering Perspective <i>Tony Gillespie </i><b>Part IV: Synthetic Biology </b>16. Biotechnological Innovation, Non-Obvious Warfare and Challenges to International Law <i>Christopher Lowe </i>17.<em> </em>Synthetic Biology and the Biological Weapons Convention <i>Filippa Lentzos and Cecile Hellestveit </i>18.<em> </em>A Threat Assessment of Biological Weapons: Past, Present and Future <em>Matteo Bencic Habian </em>19. The Synthetic Biology Dilemma: Dual-Use and the Limits of Academic Freedom <i>Guglielmo Verdirame and Matteo Bencic Habian </i><strong>Part V: New Frontiers </strong>20.<strong> </strong>Space Oddities: Law, War and the Proliferation of Space Power <i>Bleddyn Bowen </i>21. Outer Space and Private Companies: Consequences for Global Security <i>Pawel Frankowski </i>22. Biometrics and Human Security <i>James Gow and Georg Gassauer </i>23. Future War Crimes and the Military (1): Cyber Warfare <i>James Gow and Ernst Dijxhoorn </i>24. Future War Crimes and the Military (2): Autonomy and Synthetic Biology <i>James Gow and Ernst Dijxhoorn </i>25. Future War Crimes and Prosecution: Gathering Digital Evidence <em>Maziar Homayounnejad, Richard E. Overill and James Gow </em><b>Part VI: International Perspectives </b>26. Russian Information Warfare and its Challenges to International Law <em>Oscar Jonsson </em>27. Unconventional Warfare and Technological Innovation in Islam: Ethics and Legality <i>Ariane Tabatabai </i>28<em>. </em>Cyber Security, Cyber-Deterrence and International Law: the Case of France <em>Anne-Marie Le Gloannec and Fleur Richard-Tixier </em>29. The US, the UK, Russia and China (1): Regulating Cyber Attacks under International Law – Developments at the United Nations<i> Elaine Korzak </i>30. The US, the UK, Russia and China (2): Regulating Cyber Attacks under International Law – the Potential for Dedicated Norms <i>Elaine Korzak</i></p>