The Future of Violence
The ability to inflict pain and suffering on large groups of people is no longer limited to the nation-state. New technologies are putting enormous power into the hands of individuals across the worldaa shift that, for all its sunny possibilities, entails enormous risk for all of us, and may even challenge the principles on which the modern nation state is founded. In short, if our national governments can no longer protect us from harm, they will lose their legitimacy. Detailing the challenges that states face in this new world, legal scholars Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum controversially argue in [Title TK] that national governments must expand their security efforts to protect the lives and liberty of their citizens. Wittes and Blum show how advances in cybertechnology, biotechnology, and robotics mean that more people than ever before have access to technologiesafrom drones to computer networks and biological dataathat could possibly be used to extort or attack states and private citizens. Security, too, is no longer only under governmental purview, as private companies or organizations control many of these technologies: internet service providers in the case of cyber terrorism and digital crime, or academic institutions and individual researchers and publishers in the case of potentially harmful biotechnologies. As Wittes and Blum show, these changes could undermine the social contract that binds citizens to their governments. In this brave new world of dispersed threats, Wittes and Blum persuasively argue that the best means for safeguarding our liberty and privacy are strong governmental surveillance and security networks. Indeed, they showathrough engaging looks at political thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to the Founders and beyondathat security and liberty are mutually supportive, rather than existing in a precarious balance in which the increase in one leads to a proportional decrease in the other. And not only must we bolster our domestic security efforts, but we must think internationally. Our best defense is increasingly a transnational one: more multinational forces and greater action to protect (and protect against) the territory of weaker states who do not yet have the capability to police themselves. [Title TK] is at once an exposAc of our emerging worldaone in which students can print guns with 3-D printers and scientistsa manipulations of viruses can be recreated and unleashed by ordinary peopleaand an authoritative blueprint for how government and individuals must adapt to it.Asthma Attack, a Al Arabiya News, April 22, 2012, http://www.alarabiya.net/articles /2012/04/22/209470.html (accessed October 21, 2013). ... For an example of military drones as an intelligence collection platform, see US Army, Field Manual Interim 3-04.155: Army ... Camry sedan but also for several of its luxury Lexus models, its Highlander SUV, and a number of other models across its various brands.
| Title | : | The Future of Violence |
| Author | : | Benjamin Wittes, Gabriella Blum |
| Publisher | : | Basic Books - 2015-03-10 |
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