Technology, Ethics and the Protocols of Modern War.
"Contemporary security has expanded its meaning, content and structure in response to globalization and the emergence of greatly improved world-wide communication. This book addresses how and why the nature of security has changed and what this means for the security actors involved and the wid...
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| Series: | Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Noters on contributors; 1. Introduction: Protocols of modern war; References; 2. Strategic communication and contemporary European security; Introduction; A civil-military relations theory of strategic communications; The development of NATO's strategic communications concept; The concept of strategic communications; Germany; France; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3. Violence reconsidered: Towards postmodern warfare; Hybrid warfare
- a conceptual chimera.
- Post-asymmetric warfare
- rebalancing the battlefieldsPostmodern warfare
- violence in the multi-layered environment; Conclusions; References; 4. Private security, military companies and foreign fighters: Possible interactions and potential practical implications; Introduction; Conceptual distinctions; Foreign fighters (FFs); Private Security and Military Companies (PSMCs); Possible interactions of PSMCs and FFs; Competition / conflict; Levels of cooperation; Potential practical implications; Conclusions; Notes; References; 5. Uprisings, violence and the securitisation of inequality.
- IntroductionTheory; Method; Costs of the African uprisings; The case for securitisation; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6. Complicating security: The multiple narratives emerging from the Ukraine crisis; Opening observations; Sorting the narratives; The Ukraine crisis and negotiating narratives; Conclusions: Complicating narratives; References; 7. Technology, development, global commons and international security: A global commons and interdisciplinary approach to global security; Introduction; Globalisation and security in an interdisciplinary world; Globalisation: concept and reality.
- Security and the stateIntersection of globalisation and security; Commons
- A basic approach; Security view of the commons; Technology; Space; Cyber world; Conclusion; Note; References; 8. Organisational networks in post-conflict disarmament efforts; Theoretical framework; IGO networks; Disarmament and demobilisation; Case study: Sierra Leone; Conclusion; Notes; References; 9. From MK-Ultra project to Human Terrain System: Militarisation of social sciences
- ethical dilemmas and future prospects; Introduction; From behavioural studies to mind control projects; From Camelot to Baghdad.
- The human terrain systemThe three models of cooperation; Concluding remarks; References; 10. Ethical dimension of post-heroic and autonomous modern armed conflicts; Introduction; De-heroisation; Autonomy; Conclusion; Notes; References; 11. European military and dual-use technology transfers to Russia: The impact on European and Transatlantic security; Introduction; Theoretical background; Military technology transfers: A comparative analysis of European and Russian rationales; European defence matters ... but trade comes first!; Russia's great power ambitions and foreign military transfers.