This book offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of emerging technologies and their impact on the new international security environment across three levels of analysis.

Reuben Steff is Senior Lecturer at the New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science and Political Science Programme, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Joe Burton is Senior Lecturer at the New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato, and a Marie Curie fellow (MSCA-IF) at Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Simona R. Soare is Senior Associate Analyst at European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), working on transatlantic defence.

Introduction: Machines, the State and War Reuben Steff, Joe Burton and Simona R. Soare 1. Histories of Technologies: Society, the State and the Emergence of Postmodern Warfare Joe Burton Section I: The Machine and the International System 2. Emerging Technologies and the Chinese Challenge to US Innovation Leadership James Johnson 3. Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Small States Reuben Steff 4. Artificial Intelligence and the Military Balance of Power: Interrogating the US-China Confrontation Reuben Steff and Khusrow Abbasi 5. Mitigating Accidental War: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and De-Escalation Strategies Aiden Warren and Alek Hillas Section II: Emerging Technologies, the State and the Changing Character of Conflict 6. Politics in the Machine: The Political Context of Emerging Technologies, National Security and Great Power Competition Simona R. Soare 7. Inequitable Internet. Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty through the Blockchain Andrew Colarik and MAJ Richard Wilson 8. The Evolution of the Russian Way of Informatsionnaya Voyna Sean Ainsworth 9. US Grand Strategy and the Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles during the George W. Bush Administration Francis Okpaleke and Joe Burton Section III: The State, Society and Non-State Actors 10. Cyber Autonomy: Automating the Hacker - Self-healing, Self-adaptive, Automatic Cyber Defense Systems and their Impact to the Industry, Society and National Security Ryan K. L. Ko 11. The International Security Implications of 3D Printed Firearms Pete Cook 12. Deepfakes and Synthetic Media Curtis Barnes and Tom Barraclough 13. Cyber Threat Attribution, Trust and Confidence, and the Contestability of National Security Policy William Hoverd 14. Disrupting Paradigms through New Technologies: Assessing the Potential of 'Smart' Water Points to Improve Water Security for Marginalized Communities Nathan John Cooper 15. "Just wrong", "disgusting", "grotesque": How to Deal with Public Rejection of New Potentially Life-saving Technologies Dan Weijers Conclusion: Society, Security & Technology: Mapping a Fluid Relationship Simona R. Soare