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The Political Economy of Robots

Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century

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Editors:
  1. Ryan Kiggins

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, USA

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  • 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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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Robots and Political Economy

    • Ryan Kiggins
    Pages 1-16

  3. The Politics of Global Value Chains

    • Ronald W. Cox, Michael Wartenbe
    Pages 17-40

  4. Drug Smuggling and Automated Borders: A Losing Battle of Escalation or State/Non-state Symbiosis

    • Elaine Carey, Andrae Marak
    Pages 41-59

  5. Policy Implications of People Analytics and the Automated Workplace

    • Brett S. Sharp
    Pages 61-80

  6. Automatic Medicine? Technology and the Future of Primary Health Care

    • Daniel Skinner, Berkeley Franz
    Pages 81-100

  7. Repressive Robots and the Radical Possibilities of Emancipated Automation

    • Sean Noah Walsh, Bryant William Sculos
    Pages 101-125

  8. The Political Economy of Bots: Theory and Method in the Study of Social Automation

    • Samuel Woolley
    Pages 127-155

  9. The Safe Hand: Liquidity, Money, and Financial Innovation

    • Loren Gatch
    Pages 157-182

  10. Against Our Better Judgment: Practical Wisdom in an Age of Smart(er) Machines

    • Leslie Paul Thiele
    Pages 183-209

  11. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Policy Decision-Making: A Crisis in International Relations Theory?

    • Ryan David Kiggins
    Pages 211-234

  12. Diplomacy’s Lesson’s Learned: First World War Submarine Warfare and the 21st Century Drone

    • Justin Quinn Olmstead
    Pages 235-247

  13. Conflict, Cohesion, and Comrades in Arms: Social Implications of Robotics in the Military

    • Mary Manjikian
    Pages 249-269

  14. Robots Writing Chinese and Fighting Underwater

    • Gregory Austin
    Pages 271-290

  15. Armed Drones: Automation, Autonomy, and Ethical Decision-Making

    • Peter Lee
    Pages 291-315

  16. Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-combatant

    • Ronald Arkin
    Pages 317-326

  17. Outlook for Prosperity and Peace in the Emergent Global Political Economy of Robots

    • Ryan Kiggins
    Pages 327-332

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 333-336
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About this book

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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, USA

    Ryan Kiggins

About the editor

Ryan Kiggins is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Central Oklahoma, USA. He edited The Political Economy of Rare Earth Elements: Rising Powers and Technological Change, which was published as part of the International Political Economy series in 2015.



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