Security and Defence: Ethical and Legal Challenges in the Face of Current Conflicts

This book aspires to face the challenge of analyzing with due academic rigor, always in the paradigm of security and advanced sciences, but without forgetting the ethical questions that our world raises every day. The work is divided into two main sections: the first section is focused on the cyber world, with not only technical but also legal derivations given the expansion of vulnerabilities and our technological dependence. The second section, with a more interdisciplinary nature, runs through undeniably topical issues such as territorial problems and the potential decline of the traditional States, the communicational impact of information management and false news, or the commitment to essential freedoms for the West.

This book connects advanced technologies and ethical issues and includes discussions on recent crises such as COVID-19. It also provides an interdisciplinary view on the ethical issues for security technologies.

Interdisciplinary and international focus from a public and private approach Offers the newest points of view by a unique mix of international experts from military, diplomacy and academia Offers insight in a relevant topic from an ethical perspective

Autorentext

Dr. Juan Cayón Peña was born in 1968, in Madrid. He has done French Language and Civilization (Sorbonne, Paris, 1988), Law Degree (UPCO, Madrid 1991), Diploma in Legal Practice (UPCO, Madrid) 1992, Law Ph. D. Law Philosophy, Morals, and Politics (UPCO, Madrid 1998) and was Rector of Nebrija University from 2014 to 2020.

Dr. Cayón is a corresponding academic at the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, the Puerto Rico Academy of Arts and Sciences, the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Academy of Military Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the Spanish chapter of the Pugwash Movement (Nobel Peace Prize 1995).

Throughout his teaching career, which began in 1993, he has taught in a panoply of subjects and courses that cover all his specialty areas. Dr. Cayón has been appointed as a visiting professor at different foreign universities. During this time. he has been a collaborating professor in the Management of the Ministry of Justice and of the Training and Improvement Division of the National Police, as well as a lecturer at other prestigious Universities such as the Sorbonne University in Paris, the University of Buenos Aires, the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), the Pontificia Universidad Catoìlica de Chile (Chile), and the Higher Center for National Defense Studies CESEDEN (Spain). He has directed several doctoral works and published 17 book chapters in indexed publishers such as Aranzadi Thompson-Reuters, Cambridge Scholar Publishing or Springer, as well as quite a few research articles in different journals.

Inhalt

1. Outer space's legal framework, challenges, and policies.- 2. Arms Control in Outer Space New Challenges for space security and sustainability.- 3. Cybersecurity in the second decade of the 21st century.- 4. Cybercompliance: A legal but also ethical concept that allows to reduce the current high risks of corporations.- 5. Criminal law in the face of internet risks: cybercrime.- 6. Human rights, big data and artificial intelligence: elements of a complex algorithm.- 7. The challenge of disinformation for national security.- 8. Why do ethical and legal problems occur in conflict situations a perspective of socio- developmental psychology.- 9. Conflict and territory: a legal and metalegal approach. The case of Spain.- 10. Ethical considerations in the area of operations.- 11. Challenges facing the resolution of the pandemic and the global response capacity. EU countries/China/USA.- 12. Axiological, economic and legal challenges for the functioning of the energy union in the context of energy security of the European Union.- 13. Freedom of Speech in Times of Crisis.