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Summary:

Modern technological development has been both rapid and fundamentally transformative of the means and methods of warfare, and of the broader environment in which warfare is conducted. In many cases, technological development has been stimulated by, and dedicated to, addressing military requirements. On other occasions, technological developments outside the military sphere affect or inform the conduct of warfare and military expectations. The introduction of new technologies such as information technology, space technologies, nanotechnology and robotic technologies into our civil life, and into warfare, is expected to influence the application and interpretation of the existing rules of the law of armed conflict.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Conundrum of New Technologies in the Law of Armed Conflict / Robert McLaughlin and Hitoshi Nasu
• Part I. General Issues
• The Legal Challenges of New Technologies: An Overview / William H. Boothby
• Ethical Challenges of New Military Technologies / Stephen Coleman
• Legal Review of New Technology Weapons / Damian P. Copeland
• Part II. Cyber Technology
• Where Do Cyber Hostilities Fit in the International Law Maze? / William H. Boothby
• Geography, Territory and Sovereignty in Cyber Warfare / David Midson
• Part III. Outer Space Technology
• Military Strategic Use of Outer Space / Duncan Blake
• The Law Applicable to Military Strategic Use of Outer Space / Duncan Blake
• Part IV. Nanotechnology
• Nanotechnology and the Law of Armed Conflict
• Anticipating the Biological Proliferation Threat of Nanotechnology: Challenges for International Arms Control Regimes / Margaret E. Kosal
• Nanotechnology and Military Attacks on Photosynthesis / Thomas Faunce
• Part V. Unmanned Technologies
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Do They Pose Legal Challenges? / Ian Henderson and Bryan Cavanagh
• Examining Autonomous Weapon Systems from a Law of Armed Conflict Perspective / Jeffrey S. Thurnher
• Unmanned Naval Vehicles and the Law of Naval Warfare / Robert McLaughlin
• Conclusion: Challenges of New Technologies for the Law of Armed Conflict / Hitoshi Nasu and Robert McLaughlin.

Contributors:

Nasu, Hitoshi , editor

McLaughlin, Rob , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: New technologies and the law of armed conflict (The Hague : Asser Press ; Berlin : Springer, 2014 — ISBN 9789067049320; LCCN 2013948368; OCLC Number 869209890)

Subjects:

Military weapons (International law)

War (International law)

Military art and science — Technological innovations

Military art and science

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 3, 2014).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 259 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

KZ5645 .N498 2014eb

ISBNs:

9789067049337 (electronic bk.)
9067049336 (electronic bk.)
9789067049320 (print) [Invalid]
9067049328 (print) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-90-6704-933-7
[Unknown Type]: 10.1007/978-90-6704-

OCLC Numbers:

867851363