Full Description
In the law of armed conflicts, one of the elements that has changed the most has been the means and methods of warfare. Yet there are few legal answers for the many questions these changes pose. This volume, therefore, seeks to identify the limitations of current international law
on this double plane, the means and methods of combat, and to offer insights about how to address them. Topics include the use of nuclear energy, which without being a weapon, can have the same effect as one, chemical and biological weapons, autonomous artificial intelligence weapons, and biobots.
Similarly, fake news, the hostile use of cyberspace, lawfare, the use of big data, terrorism as a combat method, premeditated poisoning, sexual humiliation, the impact of such news on the armed forces and the reorganization needed to face the new scenarios are all situations not contemplated in classical law and which require new legal and operational responses.
Contents
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Biographical Note: Professor Rosario Domínguez Matés
Nuria Arenas Hidalgo and Rosa Giles Carnero
part 1
New Means of Warfare, More Problems Added to the Classical Problems
1 Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Energy in New Armed Conflicts Unfinished Regulation
Pablo Antonio Fernández-Sánchez
2 The Use of Chemical Weapons and Toxic Substances in Contemporary Conflictual Framework
Fernando Villena
3 Biological Weapons and Their Incompatibility with ihl
Ana Cristina Gallego-Hernández
4 Autonomous Weapons and International Responsibility
Borja Montes Toscano
5 Armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in New Armed Conflicts
Pilar Pozo Serrano
6 The New Weapons in Naval Warfare Unmanned Maritime Systems
Noelia Arjona Hernández
7 Artificial Intelligence in Modern War Beyond Killer Robots
Ángel Gómez de Ágreda
8 The European Union before the Regulation of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (Between Utopia and Necessity)
Victoriano Gallego Arce
9 The Use of Biobots as a Means of Warfare in the New Armed Conflicts
Miguel Ángel Martín López
part 2
New Methods of Warfare, New International Legal Lagoons
10 The Limits of Fake News as Methods of Warfare
Chema Suárez-Serrano
11 The Hostile Use of Cyberspace and Its Implications as Means of Warfare A 'Stuxnetization' of Global Relations?
Rafael Rodríguez Prieto
12 Lawfare as a New Method of Warfare
Jonatán Cruz Ángeles
13 Big Data and the New Armed Conflicts
Víctor Luis Gutiérrez Castillo
14 Terrorism and Counterterrorism in New Asymmetric and Hybrid Warfare Lessons after Afghanistan
Consuelo Ramón Chornet
15 Poisoning of Food as a Method of Warfare
Adriana Fillol Mazo
16 Sexual Violence Against Men as a Method of Warfare in Contemporary Conflicts Some Lessons Learned
Magdalena M. Martín Martínez
17 New Methods (and Means) of Warfare and Their Impact on the Structure of the Armed Forces
Pedro Sánchez Herráez
18 Armies towards the 2035 Horizon Concerning New Threats, Technology and Urban Scenarios (The Example of the Actions of the Spanish Army)
Miguel Ballenilla García de Gamarra
Index
