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Policymakers, legislators, scientists, thinkers, military strategists, academics, and all those interested in understanding the future want to know how twenty-first century scientific advance should be regulated in war and peace. This book tries to provide some of the answers. Part I summarises some important elements of the relevant law. In Part II, individual chapters are devoted to cyber capabilities, highly automated and autonomous systems, human enhancement technologies, human degradation techniques, the regulation of nanomaterials, novel naval technologies, outer space, synthetic brain technologies beyond artificial intelligence, and biometrics. The final part of the book notes important synergies that emerge between the different technologies and legal provisions, existing and proposed, assesses notions of convergence and of composition in international law, and provides some concluding remarks. The new technologies, their uses, and their regulation in war and peace are presented to the reader who is invited to draw conclusions.

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William H. Boothby is an associate fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and former Air Commodore. He retired in 2011 as Deputy Director of Legal Services for the Royal Air Force. He is the author of several leading texts on the law of armed conflict, including Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict (2nd Edition, 2016) and The Law of War: A Detailed Assessment of the US Department of Defense 'Law of War Manual' (Cambridge, 2018) with Professor Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg. He has been a member of Groups of Experts that addressed Direct Participation in Hostilities that produced the HPCR Manual of the Law of Air and Missile Warfare, the 2013 Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare and the Leuven Manual on the International Law Applicable to Peace Operations and teaches in Australia, Denmark and Geneva.

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