Predictors of support for a ban on killer robots: Preventive arms control as an anticipatory response to military innovation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2020.1845935" target="_blank" >10.1080/13523260.2020.1845935</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Predictors of support for a ban on killer robots: Preventive arms control as an anticipatory response to military innovation

Original language description

Many see the advent of lethal autonomous weapon systems as the next revolution in military affairs. Currently, some 30 countries share the view that these weapons should be preemptively banned, but we know relatively little about their motivations. This study contributes to the growing literature on &quot;killer robots&quot; by theorizing preventive arms control as an anticipatory response to military innovation. I suggest that states prefer preventive arms control when they lack capacities or incentives to pursue innovation in the first place. I analyze a cross-sectional dataset on national positions toward the ban on autonomous weapons and demonstrate that the probability of support for preventive prohibition decreases with increasing financial and technological capacities. Both democracies and autocracies are less likely to support the ban than mixed regimes. Conversely, states with strong humanitarian orientation and high socialization within specific arms control regimes are more likely to support the ban.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Contemporary Security Policy

ISSN

1352-3260

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

42

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

30-52

UT code for WoS article

000595476000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85096623183