This book addresses issues of legal and moral governance arising in
the development, deployment, and eventual uses of emerging
technologies in military operations. Proverbial wisdom has it that law
and morality always lag behind technological innovation. Hence, the
book aims to identify, enumerate, and constructively address the
problems of adequate governance for the development, deployment, and
eventual uses of military technologies that have been newly introduced
into military operations or which will be available in the near
future. Proposals for modifications in governance, the book argues,
closely track the anxieties of many critics of these technologies to
the extent that they will proliferate, prove destructive in
unanticipated ways, and partially or wholly escape regulation under
current treaties and regulatory regimes. In addition to such concerns
in domestic and especially in international law, the book addresses
ethical norms in the professions involved in the design and eventual
use of specific technologies, principally involving the professional
norms of practice in engineering and the military (as well as
biomedical and health care practice), which impose moral obligations
on their members to avoid reckless endangerment or criminal negligence
in the course of their activities. Thus, in addition to exploring the
application of existing legal regimes and moral norms, the book
examines how these professions might develop or improve the voluntary
constraints on forms of malfeasance that are enshrined in their
histories and codes of best practices. This book should prove of great
interest to students of ethics, military studies, philosophy of war
and peace, law, and international relations.
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Confronting Disruptive Innovation
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000806199
Publisert
2022
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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