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Banning Autonomous Killing, Mary O'Connell
Banning Autonomous Killing, Mary O'Connell
Mary Ellen O'Connell
Scientific research on fully autonomous weapons systems is moving rapidly. At the current pace of discovery, such fully autonomous systems will be available to military arsenals within a few decades, if not a few years. These systems operate through computer programs that will both select and attack a target without human involvement after the program is activated. Looking to the law governing resort to military force, to relevant ethical considerations, as well as the practical experience of ten years of killing using unmanned systems (drones), the time is ripe to discuss a major multilateral treaty banning fully autonomous killing. Current …
Superpower Responsibility For State Recognition: Charting A Course For Nagorno-Karabakh, Amit Chhabra
Superpower Responsibility For State Recognition: Charting A Course For Nagorno-Karabakh, Amit Chhabra
Amit Chhabra
Nations routinely refrain from intervening in one another’s domestic affairs out of mutual respect for territorial integrity and international comity. On this basis, the international community has since 1994 determined to not recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh region (NKR) as independent from the Republic of Azerbaijan, with the understanding that this view might change if an OSCE -sponsored negotiation effort determines that NKR should gain de jure independence rather than obtain a semi-autonomous status within Azerbaijan. By contrast, some of the world’s leading powers have quickly recognized or dismissed similar independence struggles, where doing so was guided by their own strategic interests …
Democratization Of The International Law, Timur R. Korotkiy
Democratization Of The International Law, Timur R. Korotkiy
Timur R. Korotkiy
The article deals with the processes of democratization of international law, the establishment of democracy in the international legal system. Aside from that in the article explores the issues embodied in international law principles and norms containing liberal- democratic values, the development of international legal mechanisms for the establishment, maintenance and development of democratic institutions in the states and prevention of emergence and existence of undemocratic regimes, democratization of international rule-making procedures and enforcement of norms.
Functional Democracy: Responding To Failures Of Accountability, Molly K. Land
Functional Democracy: Responding To Failures Of Accountability, Molly K. Land
Molly K. Land
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