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Human Security as Statecraft

Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences

By: Nik Hynek

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Human Security as Statecraft

Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences

By: Nik Hynek

This book critically investigates the discourses and practices of human security and aims to delve below the stereotypical imageries representing them. Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, the author approaches human security from a new perspective, with the aim of ascertaining what has been behind and underneath a certain spatio-temporal articulation of human security, and with what political implications and consequences. Each human security assemblage is composed of messy discourses and practices which are loosely related and sometimes even disconnected. This book examines the Canadian and Japanese articulations of human security and establishes the kinds of structural terrains have enabled, shaped, or blocked the unfolding of these versions of human security. The pivotal contention of the book is that Canadian and Japanese articulations of human security have been different because they have grown from completely different domestic economies of power governing the relationship between the state apparatus and the non-profit and voluntary sector. While the Canadian human security assemblage has been shaped by transformations in the country’s advanced liberal model of government, the Japanese has been shaped by the continuities of Japan’s bureaucratic authoritarianism. A novel approach is employed for the related process-tracing: a general series linking structural conditions with actual articulations of the human security projects, and their further development, including analysis of their unintended consequences. This book will be of much interest to students of Critical Security Studies, human security, global governance, foreign policy and IR/Security studies.

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1136460721

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The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament

A Power-Analytical Approach

By: Nik Hynek,Anzhelika Solovyeva

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The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament

A Power-Analytical Approach

By: Nik Hynek,Anzhelika Solovyeva

This novel and original book examines and disaggregates, theoretically and empirically, operations of power in international security regimes. These regimes, varying in degree from regulatory to prohibitory, are understood as sets of normative discourses, political structures and dependencies (anarchies, hierarchies, and heterarchies), and agencies through which power operates within a given security issue area with a regulatory effect. In International Relations, regime analysis has been dominated by several generations of regime theory/theorization. As this book makes clear, not only has the IR Regime Theory been of limited utility for security domain due to its heavy focus on economic and environmental regimes, but it, too, heuristically suffered from its rigid pegging to general IR Theory. It is not surprising then that the evolution of IR Regime Theory has largely been mirroring the evolution of IR Theory in general: from the neo-realist/neo-liberal institutionalist convergence regime theory; through cognitivism; to constructivist regime theory. The commitment of this book is to remedy this situation by bringing together robust power analysis and international security regimes. It provides the reader with a theoretically and empirically uncompromising and comprehensive analysis of the selected international security regimes, which goes beyond one or another school of IR Regime Theory. In doing so, it completely abandons existing, and piecemeal, analysis of regimes within the intellectual field of IR based on conventional grand/mid-range theorization.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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178661166X

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Militarizing Artificial Intelligence

Theory, Technology, and Regulation

By: Nik Hynek,Anzhelika Solovyeva

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Militarizing Artificial Intelligence

Theory, Technology, and Regulation

By: Nik Hynek,Anzhelika Solovyeva

This book examines the military characteristics and potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the new global revolution in military affairs. Offering an original perspective on the utilization, imagination, and politics of AI in the context of military development and weapons regulation, the work provides a comprehensive response to the question of how we might reflect on the AI revolution in warfare and what can be said about the ways in which this has been handled. In the first part of the book, AI is accommodated, both theoretically and empirically, in the strategic context of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA). The book offers a novel understanding of autonomous weapons as multi-layered composite systems, pointing to a complex, non-linear interplay between evolutionary and revolutionary dynamics. In the second section, the book provides an impartial analysis of the related politics and operations of power, whereby increases in military budgets and R&D of the great powers are met and countered by advocacy networks and scientists campaigning for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons. As such, it moves beyond popular caricatures of ‘killer robots’ and points out some of the problems which result from over-reliance on such imagery. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, critical security studies, arms control and disarmament, science and technology studies and general International Relations.

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The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament

A Power-Analytical Approach

By: Nik Hynek,Anzhelika Solovyeva

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Human Security as Statecraft

Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences

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Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences

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Militarizing Artificial Intelligence

Theory, Technology, and Regulation

By: Nik Hynek,Anzhelika Solovyeva

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Theory, Technology, and Regulation

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Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order

The 'New' Heteronomy

By: Jozef Bátora

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Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order

The 'New' Heteronomy

By: Jozef Bátora

This book analyzes ways how three fringe players of the modern diplomatic order - the Holy See, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and the EU – have been accommodated within that order, revealing that the modern diplomatic order is less state-centric than conventionally assumed and is instead better conceived of as a heteronomy.

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1137314699

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Human Security as Statecraft

Human Security as Statecraft

The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament

The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament

Militarizing Artificial Intelligence

Militarizing Artificial Intelligence

The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament

The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament

Human Security as Statecraft

Human Security as Statecraft

Militarizing Artificial Intelligence

Militarizing Artificial Intelligence

Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order

Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order

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