The Disruptive Impact of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems Diffusion

Challenging the focus on great powers in the international debate, this book explores how rising middle power states are engaging with emerging major military innovations and analyses how this will affect the stability and security of the Indo Pacific.

Autorentext

Austin Wyatt is a Research Associate at UNSW, Canberra. His research focuses on autonomous weapons, with a particular emphasis on their disruptive effects in Asia. He was awarded his PhD summa cum laude in 2020 from the Australian Catholic University. Dr Wyatt was a New Colombo Plan Scholar and completed a research internship at KAIST. Dr Wyatt's latest published research includes "Charting Great Power Progress Toward a Lethal Autonomous Weapon System Demonstration Point", Defence Studies, 20(1), 2020 and "The revolution of autonomous systems and its implications for the arms trade". In Research Handbook on the Arms Trade.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2 - Literature Review and Theoretical Framework Chapter 3: Research Design, Methodology and Theoretical Framework Chapter 4: Development and Diffusion of Unmanned Combat Vehicles Chapter 5: The Rise of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Chapter 6: Evaluating Indonesia's Adoption Capacity Chapter 7: Evaluating Singapore's Adoption Capacity Chapter 8: Discussing the Impact of AWS Diffusion on Relations of Power and Strategic Stability in Southeast Asia Chapter 9: Proposing a Regional 'Soft' Normative Framework for the Safer Deployment of AI-Enabled Autonomous Weapon Systems in Southeast Asia. Chapter 10: Conclusion and Directions for Future Research