Description
Warfare is changing - and rapidly. New technologies, new geopolitical alignments, new interests and vulnerabilities, and other developments are changing how, why, and by whom conflict will be waged. Just as militaries must plan ahead for an environment in which threats, alliances, capabilities, and even the domains in which they fight will differ from today, they must plan for international legal constraints that may differ, too.This volume considers how law and institutions for creating, interpreting, and enforcing it might look two decades ahead - as well as what opportunities may exist to influence it in that time. Such assessment is important as the U.S. and other governments plan for future warfare. It is also important as they formulate strategies for influencing the development of law to better serve security, humanitarian, and other interests. This volume examines not just specific questions, such as how might a particular technology require adaptive interpretation of existing law, but also grand ones, such as whether law is capable at all of keeping up with these changes.
Table of Contents
ForewordThe Honorable John B. Bellinger IIIIntroduction: The Future Law of Armed ConflictMatthew C. WaxmanChapter 1: Future War, Future Law: A Historical ApproachSir Adam RobertsChapter 2: The jus ad bellum anno 2040: An Essay on Possible Trends and ChallengesTerry D. GillChapter 3: Coding the Law of Armed Conflict: First StepsAshley DeeksChapter 4: Big Data and the Future Law of Armed Conflict in CyberspacePaul B. StephanChapter 5: Being More than You Can Be: Enhancement of Warfighters and the Law of Armed ConflictRain LiivojaChapter 6: The Law of Cyber Conflict: Quo Vadis 2.0?Michael N. SchmittChapter 7: The Laws of Neutrality in the Interconnected World: Mapping the Future ScenariosHitoshi NasuChapter 8: The Future Law of Naval Warfare: Some Vessel Status IssuesRob McLaughlinChapter 9: The Second Space Age: The Regulation of Military Space Operations and the Role of Private ActorsChristopher J. BorgenChapter 10: Coalition Warfare and the Future of the Law of Armed ConflictBlaise Cathcart, QCChapter 11: Transatlantic Legal Cooperation and the Future Law of Armed ConflictSteven HillChapter 12: Who Gets to Make International Humanitarian Law in the Future: A Pluralist VisionAlex MooreheadChapter 13: The Future of Military and Security Privatization: Protecting the Values Underlying the Law of Armed ConflictLaura A. DickinsonChapter 14: A Discursive Analysis of the Chinese Party-State's Potential Impact on the Law of Armed ConflictE. John Gregory
