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Loitering Munitions and Unpredictability

Loitering Munitions and Unpredictability: Autonomy in Weapon Systems and Challenges to Human Control

By: Ingvild Bode and Tom Watts Published by: Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark Date: May 2023 Type: Report Summary Loitering munitions – expendable uncrewed aircraft which can integrate sensorbased analysis to hover over, detect and explode into targets – are an increasingly prominent feature of modern battlefields. Existing studies have examined whether […]

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Meaning-less Human Control

Meaning-less Human Control: Lessons from Air Defence Systems for the Debate on Autonomous Weapons

By: Ingvild Bode and Tom Watts Published by: Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark Date: May 2021 Type: Report Summary Autonomous weapons systems (AWS) are the subject of growing debate. At the heart of this debate is whether such systems reduce meaningful humancontrol over the use of force. Much of the current debate

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Kseniya Oksamytna and John Karlsrud (eds) United Nations Peace Operations and International Relations Theory

Practice Theories

By: Ingvild Bode Published in: Kseniya Oksamytna and John Karlsrud (eds) United Nations Peace Operations and International Relations Theory (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp. 129-148. [peer-reviewed] Date: 2020 Type: Chapter in book About the book United Nations peace operations have undergone multiple transformations over the more than seventy years of their existence. Multidimensional peace operations

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Christian Henrich-Franke, Christian Lahusen, Robert Kaiser, and Andrea Schneiker (eds) Transnational Expertise

Expertise as Social Practice: The Individual Construction of Experts

By: Ingvild Bode Published in: Christian Henrich-Franke, Christian Lahusen, Robert Kaiser, and Andrea Schneiker (eds) Transnational Expertise (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp. 101-126. Date: 2018 Type: Chapter in book About the book This edited volume is devoted to analysing transnational expertise, a topic that has received considerable attention in the social sciences and history, especially in research

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