CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Simic, Jovana |
|---|---|
| Title | Does This Drone Match My Outfit? Challenges To United States Self-Identity In The Age Of Autonomous Weapons |
| Summary | In the age of ever bigger dominance of the robotics over the realm of human activities, one of the most problematic aspects of it is visible in warfare. In order to keep it humane and in the line with the law of war, politics, civil society and academia participate in the debate which delineates the limits and conditions of the use of autonomous weapon systems (AWS). United States’ army is one of the most active when it comes to usage of autonomous weapons, still manned by distant operators. US often uses it in counterterrorist endeavors, but criticisms and debates over the legality and the morality of the use do not stop. As the US is a country which claims to hold itself to the highest standards of lawfulness and morality, this research aims to look at how use of autonomous weapons has been accommodated into this narrative and whether autonomous weapons are a threat to the US vision of the Self. This will be done through the lens of ontological security theory, while employing the literature on military ethics and AWS. Preliminary, thesis shows that the AWS narrative is well accommodated into the US narrative of the Self, but it also show that it is challenged from the aspect of evolution of military ethics under AWS. |
| Supervisor | Roe Paul Richard |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/simic_jovana.pdf |
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