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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "Denise Garcia examines the complexities entailed in creating a global framework to govern the military use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by proposing inclusive and humane ways to forge cooperation. Three novel humanist conceptions are introduced: common good governance, transnational networked cooperation, and humanity's security. This academic volume is the first to survey the threats to peace in the shifting world order by investigating the current patterns and trends in the global use of, and investment in, militarizing AI and the development of autonomous systems."
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Includes chapter: The Legality of ADIZs and Aspects of National Security in International Air Law.
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "It is unclear if U.S. policy makers and military leaders fully realize that we have already been thrust into an artificial intelligence (AI) race with authoritarian powers. Today, the United States' peer adversaries--China and Russia--have made clear their intentions to make major investments in AI and insert this technology into their military systems, sensors and weapons. Their goal is to gain an asymmetric advantage over the U.S. military. The implications for our national security are many and complex. Algorithms of Armageddon examines this most pressing security issue in a clear, insightful delivery by two experts. Authors George Galdorisi and Sam J. Tangredi are national security professionals who deal with AI on a day-to-day basis in their work in both the technical and policy arenas. Opening chapters explain the fundamentals of what constitutes big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. They investigate the convergence of AI with other technologies and how these systems will interact with humans. Critical to the issue is the manner by which AI is being developed and utilized by Russia and China. The central chapters of the work address the weaponizing of AI through interaction with other technologies, man-machine teaming, and autonomous weapons systems. The authors cover in depth debates surrounding the AI 'genie out of the bottle' controversy, AI arms races, and the resulting impact on policy and the laws of war."
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Includes chapters: Artificial Intelligence & Foreign Affairs: Reflection and General Overview on AI, Human Rights, Ethics, and Global Governance + The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence.
Excerpt from this book's description: "An essential and practical guide to navigate the rapidly evolving laws and policies of Artificial Intelligence....Governments and private organizations are grappling with how to develop laws, regulations and rules that will govern the use and functionality of AI systems. In order to address these issues, this book contains reflections and chapters by a group of more than 40 preeminent AI and legal experts from in-house legal departments; private practice; non-profits; academia; government, and the judiciary. The book covers a wide range of important topics concerning AI and the law and provides practical advice to attorneys on how to navigate these complex and rapidly evolving issues. The topics include: ... Specific types of AI risks, including cybersecurity, privacy, and national security."
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Excerpt from this ebook's abstract: "Borders and Belonging is a pathbreaking, comprehensive, and compact analysis of responses to human migration."
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "The book is a comparative study of the national security review of foreign investment laws in China and the US. The author establishes a theoretical framework to explain the dominant role of ideas on national security and foreign investment rooted in China and the US, as well as the oriented role of China-US investment interaction. She concludes that it is difficult for China and the US to reach a consensus on national security review due to their different internal ideas on national security and foreign investment."
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In the preface to this book on security policy and international law, Dr. Hitoshi Nasu stated: "Compiled in this book are the outcomes of my research, reflection and discursive thoughts developed for over a decade."
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Contents: Constitutional ambiguity and presidential power -- Writing a new constitution -- Constitutional ambiguity -- A historical time series -- Obstacles to the interpretation of the constitution in early America -- The sovereign power and constitutional interpretation -- A strict interpretation of the constitution -- A living constitution -- The unitary executive theory -- The constitution and the supreme practical test.
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Excerpt from this book's description: "[P]resents a panoramic view of the American judiciary's handling of domestic terrorism in the last 30 years." Draws from "trial transcripts, witness statements, and judicial opinions."
BLS Library provides 1 print copy of this book (which is now checked out to a participant in the NSLHR course). Feb. 18, 2025: BLS Library ordered a 2nd print copy of this book.
Excerpt from this book's description: "On June 28, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court broke with a long-standing tradition of deference to the executive in wartime national security cases and became an important actor in an armed conflict. By declining to rubber-stamp the executive branch’s actions, the judiciary would henceforth play a major role in shaping national security policies in the war on terror....Burnep innovatively applies an interbranch perspective to persuasively argue that litigation and judicial involvement have important implications for changing patterns of policy development in a wide range of national security policy areas, including surveillance, interrogation, targeted killings, and President Trump’s travel ban."
This is an open access ebook available through OAPEN Home.
Excerpt from this ebook's description: "This work offers a groundbreaking exploration of the urgent need for creativity and innovation in contemporary military thought." Includes: Ch. 6; Towards New Horizons.
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "The widespread use of AI inside the national security ecosystem renders U.S. national security choices even more opaque to the public, congressional overseers, U.S. allies, and even the officials making the decisions. This “double black box” raises critical challenges for democratic accountability....This book defines and explores the double black box phenomenon and then identifies ways that policymakers, military and intelligence officials, and lawyers in democratic states such as the United States can reap the advantages of advanced technologies without surrendering their public law values."
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "Through an analysis of the use of drones, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi explores the ways in which, in the context of counterterrorism, war, technology and the law interact and reshape one another. She demonstrates that drone programs are techno-legal machineries that facilitate and accelerate the emergence of a new kind of warfare. This new model of warfare is individualized and de-materialized in the sense that it focuses on threat anticipation and thus consists in identifying dangerous figures (individualized warfare) rather than responding to acts of hostilities (material warfare)."
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "[P]rovides a comprehensive view of the ethical challenges around AI and explores real-world examples of how AI can be employed, including intelligence analysis, cyber warfare, and autonomous weapon systems. Centering her argument around the autonomy and learning capabilities of AI technologies, Taddeo creates a coherent ethical framework based in AI ethics and Just War theory to answer the question how can AI in defence be used for good and support policy-makers and practitioners to make informed choices when developing an ethical governance of AI in defence."
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Summary: "Merten Reglitz makes a case for a new human right to free Internet access, arguing it is crucial for protecting and advancing fundamental moral interests. He examines the risks the Internet poses to our most important rights if it is not safeguarded by public institutions."
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Includes: Ch. 5: Speech Related to National Security: Espionage and Official Secrets Laws + Ch. 6.: 6 Speech Related to National Security: Terrorism Laws.
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "This book provides an in-depth examination of the technological, geopolitical and normative pressures driving the world into a new, more complex and potentially more dangerous Third Nuclear Age." "The book draws on dozens of interviews and non-English language sources to provide a global approach and looks at the security politics driving the political debate in 20 different countries across the globe."
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Ebook's description: "What forces drive violent conflicts, and whose interests are protected by military involvement? In those conflicts, how do domestic factors fuse with external dynamics, and what issues spell the difference between successful and failed intervention? Enter Glocalized Security--a concept that argues that this fusion of domestic and external matters produces new war dynamics which require both substantial domestic reforms and realignment of external interests to achieve sustainable peace. In this edited collection, contributors use this concept to examine grievances and interests in and around war-torn countries. Combining a variety of disciplines, from sociology and political science to peace studies and public policy and administration, these case studies draw from over three decades of international military interventions around the world, including Afghanistan, Turkey, Somalia, Iraq, Nigeria, and Nepal. Analyzing the intersectional relationship of the local and global, Glocalized Security provides new insights into the problems of international security and why international military interventions often fail to ensure peace and security in conflict zones where these factors have morphed into terrorism warfare or zones of national interest among major world and regional powers. By focusing on ethnicity, religion, poverty, governance, and the other most common motivators of violent conflicts, Glocalized Security provides a crucial conceptual basis for understanding international relations in the twenty-first century."
BLS Library provides 1 print copy of this book. It was highlighted in the Just Security 2024 Year-End Book Recommendations.
Book summary: "In the decades following the 9/11 attacks, complex webs of anti-terrorism laws have come into play across the world, promising to protect ordinary citizens from bombings, hijackings and other forms of mass violence. But are we really any safer? Has freedom been secured by active deployment of state power, or fatally undermined? In this groundbreaking new book, Conor Gearty unpacks the history of global anti-terrorism law, explaining not only how these regulations came about, but also the untold damage they have wrought upon freedom and human rights. Ranging from the age of colonialism to the Cold War, through the perennial crises in the Middle East to the exponential growth of terrorism discourse compressed into the first two decades of the 21st century, the coercion these laws embody is here to stay. The 'War on Terror' was something that colonial and neo-colonial liberal democracies had always been doing--and something that is not going away. Anti-terrorism law no longer requires terrorism to survive. Wide-ranging, elegant and with a perceptive analytical sting, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the deep origins of terrorism and counter-terrorism, and how these concepts fundamentally shape the world we live in."
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "In 2006, the United Nations urged Member States to ensure that counter terrorism policies guaranteed respect for human rights and the rule of law. This book demonstrates that, in many cases, counter terrorism policies relating to preventive detention, targeted killing and measures relating to returning foreign terrorist fighters have failed to respect human rights, and this encourages vulnerable people to be drawn towards supporting or committing acts of terrorism. Furthermore, in recent years, jurisprudence and public opinion in some countries have shifted from being at one stage more protective of human rights, to an acquiescence that some particularly draconian counter terrorism methods are necessary and acceptable. This book analyzes why this has happened, with a focus on the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel, and offers suggestions to address this issue."
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Excerpt from this book's description: "In this urgent polemic, leading barrister Susie Alegre explores the ways in which artificial intelligence threatens our fundamental human rights - including the rights to life, liberty and fair trial; the right to private and family life; and the right to free expression - and how we protect those rights."
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Includes chapters: Hybrid Warfare and International Counterterrorism Law -- Hybrid Warfare, Cognitive Warfare, and International Human Rights Law -- State Responsibility for Hybrid Warfare.
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Tip: When browsing the table of contents: under a Part of this ebook, click: "Show Subsections" to view/access this book's chapters. Part III. Deterrence includes: Ch. 13. Guantánamo (by Yolande Jean). Part IV. Where We Are, Where We're Going includes: Ch. 14. Law and Torture (Fernando Arredondo).
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Contents: Defining Terrorism in International Law -- The Key Components of International Counterterrorism Law -- National Terrorism Legislation Worldwide -- Prosecution of Terrorism Suspects in Domestic Courts -- Counterterrorism Action Under International Law -- Prosecution of Terrorism as an International Crime -- State Responsibility for Terrorism -- The Outlook for International Counterterrorism Law.
BLS Library provides 1 print copy of this book. Contents: Introducing Autonomous Systems of War: The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence -- AWS: The Current State of the AWS Debate and of State Policy -- Autonomous Weapons Systems and 'Autonomy': Weapons or Killer Robots? -- AWS and the IHL Requirements -- Accountability and Liability for the Deployment of Autonomous Weapon Systems -- Final Conclusion.
This is a recent open access ebook provided by vendor Cambridge University Press.
Excerpt from this ebook's description: "In the coming decades, climate change, forced migration, and violent extremism will exacerbate such disputes in places that are ill equipped to handle them. Local Peace, International Builders examines the conditions under which international interventions mitigate communal violence. The book argues that civilian perceptions of impartiality, driven primarily by the legacies of colonialism, shape interveners' ability to manage local disputes. Drawing on georeferenced data on the deployment of over 100,000 UN peacekeepers to fragile settings in the 21st century as well as a multimethod study of intervention in Mali – where widespread violence is managed by the international community – this book highlights a critical pathway through which interventions can maintain order in the international system."
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BLS Library now provides "unlimited" access to this ebook. The Feb. 5, 2025 "Just Security Podcast" featured author/Prof./former Dean/former Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department Harold Hongju Koh discussing this book, which "argues for structural reforms to realign the balance of power among Congress, the courts, and the president." Chapters 10 ("A Strategy for Reform") & 11 ("Rethinking Foreign Affairs Law") provide specific policy proposals.
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Westlaw's description: "National Security Investigations and Prosecutions presents the law governing investigations conducted by the United States government to acquire information about foreign threats to national security, e.g., international terrorism. National security law is often inaccessible, and can be particularly hard to follow when divorced from the context of historical tradition, governmental structures, and operational reality in which it functions. This treatise explores the full background of NSIs, both from a pre-911 and a post-911 perspective, providing a powerful tool for any attorney handling a case involving a national security investigation or prosecution."
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "A compelling examination of how secondary states are preserving their strategic autonomy and are resisting spheres of influence. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the deteriorating United States-China relationship signify the onset of the New Cold War. Unlike the original Cold War, this competition is multipolar and 'multiplex,' with secondary powers, small states, and even nonstate actors pragmatically selecting which of their interests intersect with those of the great powers. The New Cold War and the Remaking of Regions contends that multiplexity and multipolarity have important repercussions for the world's regional orders. Contributors to the book address the New Cold War and regional ordering processes from realist, liberal, and constructivist perspectives.
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "This book maps out the moral, legal and societal issues brought forth by the use of autonomous systems such as AI and smart robots in outer space."
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Excerpt from book's description: "[E]xplores the nuances of the shift in the organization, strategy, and operation of terrorist groups into smaller and more robust terror groups in both the United States and international levels....In this edited collection, authoritative scholars use relevant theories of sociology and psychology, as well as evidence from leading counterterrorism agencies such as the FBI, to support analysis, examples, and explanations of the landscape of terrorism around the world."
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "Drawing on thousands of pages of declassified FBI documents, Daniel S. Chard shows how America's war with domestic guerrillas prompted a host of new policing measures as the FBI revived illegal spy techniques previously used against communists in the name of fighting terrorism. These efforts did little to stop the guerrillas—instead, they led to a bureaucratic struggle between the Nixon administration and the FBI that fueled the Watergate Scandal and brought down Nixon. Yet despite their internal conflicts, FBI and White House officials developed preemptive surveillance practices that would inform U.S. counterterrorism strategies into the twenty-first century, entrenching mass surveillance as a cornerstone of the national security state. Connecting the dots between political violence and'law and order'politics, Chard reveals how American counterterrorism emerged in the 1970s from violent conflicts over racism, imperialism, and policing that remain unresolved today."
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "Pratt investigates the potential erosion of prohibiting assassination, torture, and mercenarism during the US's War on Terrorism. In examining the emergence and history of the US's targeted killing programme, detention and interrogation programme, and employment of armed contractors in warzones, he proposes that a 'normative transformation' has occurred, which has changed the meaning and content of these prohibitions, even though they still exist. Drawing on pragmatist philosophy, practice theory, and relational sociology, this book develops a new theory of normativity and institutional change, and offers new data about the decisions and activities of security practitioners."
BLS Library provides these two vols. in print. Excerpt from this work's description: [P]rovides a comprehensive analysis of the lawfulness of the use of nuclear weapons, based on existing international law, established facts as to nuclear weapons and their effects, and nuclear weapons policies and plans of the United States. Based on detailed analysis of the facts and law, Professor Moxley shows that the United States’ arguments that uses of nuclear weapons, including low-yield nuclear weapons, could be lawful do not withstand analysis."
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "This book analyzes questions of platform bias, algorithmic filtering and ranking of Internet speech, and declining perceptions of online freedom."
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "Political systems across much of the West are now subject to populist disruption, which often takes an anti-Constitutional form. This interdisciplinary book argues that the current analysis of anti-Constitutional populism, while often astute, is focused far too narrowly. It is held here that due to an obscured complex of dynamics that has shaped the history of the West since its inception and which remains active today, we do not understand the present. This complex not only explains the current disruptions across the fields of contemporary religion, politics, economics and emerging artificial intelligence but also how these disruptions derive each from originary sources. This work thereby explains not only the manner in which this complex has functioned across historical time but also why it is that its inherent, unresolvable flaws have triggered the shifts between these key fields as well as the intractability of these present disruptions....Presenting a forensic examination of the root causes of all these disruptions, the study provides a toolbox of ideas with which to confront these challenges."
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "The Private is Political explores the failure of existing legal systems and institutions to protect our online presence and identities. Examining the ways in which the digital space is under threat from both governments and private actors, Ray Brescia reveals how the rise of private surveillance prevents individuals from organizing with others who might help to catalyze change in their lives. Brescia argues that we are not far from a world where surveillance chills not just our speech, but our very identities. This will ultimately stifle our ability to live full lives, realize democracy, and even shape the laws that affect our privacy itself. Beyond merely identifying the harms to individuals from privacy violations, Brescia furthers our understanding of privacy by identifying and naming political privacy and the integrity of identity as central to democracy. The Private is Political empowers consumers by outlining a roadmap for a comprehensive privacy regime, leveraging various institutions to collectively safeguard privacy rights."
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Contents: Why Race & National Security? -- Race & the Scope of National Security -- Race & the Boomerang Effect of National and Transnational Security -- Comparative and International Perspectives on Race & National Security.
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Excerpt from this ebook's description: "Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, [former] chairman of the bipartisan Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, here presents an eloquent and fascinating account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American government since World War I - how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it has adversely affected momentous political decisions and events, and how it has eluded efforts to curtail or end it. "
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This ebook includes: Ch. 1: Shaping Surveillance Futures and Ch. 8: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Counterterrorism: The “Realities” of Security Practitioners and Technologists ("The chapter explores trends in counterterrorism training of special forces in the UK, France, Ireland, and Kenya.")
Open access ebook available from University of Michigan Press.
Excerpt from this ebook's description: "The Terrorism News Beat engages thinking about terrorism and the news media from the fields of political science, communication, criminology, economics, and sociology using multimethod research involving more than 2,500 newspaper articles published between 1997 and 2018. Chapters analyze the terrorism news beat's subject matter, language, and coverage of the Oklahoma City Bombing, Olympic Park bombing, 9/11 attacks, DC Sniper case, and Dallas Police shooting."
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Excerpt from this book's description: "Reassessing the role of torture in the context of police violence, mass incarceration, and racial capitalism."
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This ebook's description: "This book begins with an examination of the powers of the UN General Assembly and the legal character of its resolutions, analyzing the UN Charter and related documents, as well as the interpretation of relevant provisions by the International Court of Justice, the General Assembly itself, and international legal doctrine. The author analyzes the UN General Assembly resolutions from 2014 through 2023 on the territorial integrity of Ukraine, condemnation of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, war crimes committed by its political and military leadership and Russian citizens, the legal responsibility of the Russian Federation and its citizens, as well as the parameters of a future just and lasting peace."