Dehumanization of Warfare
Legal Implications of New Weapon Technologies
Editors: Heintschel von Heinegg, Wolff, Frau, Robert, Singer, Tassilo (Eds.)
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- Offers a new approach that considers different new weapon technologies under the same legal rules
- Includes ethical and philosophical reasoning on new weapon technologies – a central part of the current discussions
- Offers insights into the status quo in robotics and digital forensics, fostering a common understanding of the challenges of new weapon technologies
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- About this book
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This book addresses the technological evolution of modern warfare due to unmanned systems and the growing capacity for cyberwarfare. The increasing involvement of unmanned means and methods of warfare can lead to a total removal of humans from the navigation, command and decision-making processes in the control of unmanned systems, and as such away from participation in hostilities – the “dehumanization of warfare.” This raises the question of whether and how today’s law is suitable for governing the dehumanization of warfare effectively. Which rules are relevant? Do interpretations of relevant rules need to be reviewed or is further and adapted regulation necessary? Moreover, ethical reasoning and computer science developments also have to be taken into account in identifying problems. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach the book focuses primarily on international humanitarian law, with related ethics and computer science aspects included in the discussion and the analysis.
- About the authors
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Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
Robert Frau, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
Tassilo Singer, University of Passau, Germany
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-11
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Autonomous Weapons and International Humanitarian Law
Pages 15-20
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Dehumanization: Is There a Legal Problem Under Article 36?
Pages 21-52
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Dehumanization: The Ethical Perspective
Pages 55-73
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Autonomy of Mobile Robots
Pages 77-98
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Dehumanization of Warfare
- Book Subtitle
- Legal Implications of New Weapon Technologies
- Editors
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- Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
- Robert Frau
- Tassilo Singer
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-67266-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-67266-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-67264-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-88402-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 233
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
- Topics
