Overview
- Makes a major contribution to studies of automation and its implications for global politics and society
- Provides insights into such significant issues as automated war and terrorism
- Offers a well-rounded and interdisciplinary analysis of the impact of robots on the international political economy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace. Focusing on robots, information communication technologies, and other automation technologies, it offers brief interventions that assess how automation may alter extant political, social, and economic institutions, norms, and practices that comprise the global political economy. In doing so, this collection deals directly with such issues as automated production, trade, war, state sanctioned robot violence, financial speculation, transnational crime, and policy decision making. This interdisciplinary volume will appeal to students, scholars and practitioners grappling with political, economic, and social problems that arise from rapid technological change that automates the prospects for human prosperity and peace.
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Keywords
- Automation
- International Relations
- Global politics
- Policy
- Commercial and military drones
- Autonomous robots
- Artificial intelligence
- Internet enabled devices
- Automated war
- Automated production
- Automated governance
- Automated terrorism
- Automated financial speculation
- Automated transnational crime
- Security
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Economy of Robots
Book Subtitle: Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century
Editors: Ryan Kiggins
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51466-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51465-9Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84658-3Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51466-6Published: 16 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 336
Topics: International Political Economy, Robotics and Automation, International Economics, International Organization, Globalization, Conflict Studies