Sian Troath
Biographic Data
| ID | 1194559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sian Troath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sian |
| FAMILY NAME | Troath |
| SIGNATURE | TROATH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0308-8031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Deep sea mining, think tanks, and the politics of expertise
Introduction
What would it mean to put the ethics of war in dialogue with the experience of war? The special section that follows explores this question. Featuring contributions from scholars across a range of disciplinary and academic backgrounds, it asks what we, as scholars of ethics and international affairs, stand to learn about the ethics of war by engaging with the experience of war. What can those who have direct personal experience of armed conflict—…
The Intellectual Inheritance of Machine Learning and the Ethics of Algorithmic War
In this article I am concerned with interrogating the intersection between the Newtonian and Cartesian intellectual inheritances of AI and machine learning, and ideas about the ethics of war. As militaries turn to new and emerging technologies to maintain or achieve a technological edge over their perceived adversaries, they create new imaginaries of future war—alongside the technologists, academics, and defense scientists crafting new terms, ide…
Resistance, power, and the new global ethical order
The ethics panel held for the ANU IR Department’s 75th birthday asked panellists to respond to the theme of resistance, power, and the new global ethical order. Vasuki Nesiah, Lana Tatour, James Blackwell, George Carter and Bina D’Costa painted a rich picture of the very political nature of ethics and the contests for ethical leadership currently energising global politics, as well as our responsibilities as academics. Inspired by their comments,…
Seeking safety, finding fear
Together, with the rise in populist politics and growing polarisation, immigration detention is a salient topic mobilised during elections to generate political support and votes in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), Australia and the United Kingdom (UK). The language used about immigration detention, refugees and asylum seekers has impacts on policy and on lives, including exclusion, criminalisation, detainment, detention and expulsion. Existing scholar…
Trusting technology to wage war
Robotics, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence (RAS-AI) are at the technological edge of militaries trying to achieve 'ethical' war. RAS-AI have been cast as essential technologies for defence forces to develop in order to sustain military advantage. Central to the success of this endeavour is trust: the technologies must be trusted for defence personnel to be willing to use them, for defence to be trusted by the public, and for allies…
The Political Economy of Australian Militarism
Australia is undergoing a process of substantial militarization. This article argues that one of the key forces underpinning Australia’s militarization is an emergent military–industrial–academic complex (MIAC), comprised of increasingly close relationships between universities, defense, and defense industry. The connections between the three have rapidly intensified since 2016 due to changes in defense industry policy, pessimism regarding the st…
The development of robotics and autonomous systems in Australia
Robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) are amongst a plethora of new and emerging technologies states are seeking to develop and use to gain military advantage in an environment of intensifying strategic competition. Australia is a key player when it comes to autonomous systems, with trusted autonomous systems (TAS) being earmarked as a priority area. RAS have taken an increasingly prevalent place in Australian research, discourse, military thinki…
Trusted intermediaries
Studying trust at the international level is one of the greatest challenges for trust studies. In this article I seek to expand on work which has sought to study trust between states in a way which avoids anthropomorphising the state, and retains the salience of interpersonal trust. To do this, I consider trust between states as existing in a web of relationships, from relationships between government figures, to military personnel, to members of…
Virtual sovereignty? Private internet capital, digital platforms and infrastructural power in the United States
Infrastructural power in the United States, which is the capacity to extract and deploy social resources and initiate and harness technological innovation, is increasingly generated by private internet capital and exercised by digital platforms. In this article we argue that while these private actors do not possess legitimacy, this is a form of 'virtual sovereignty' which complicates the capacity of the US state to exercise infrastructural power…
Bonded but not embedded
The aim of this article is to use theories of bonded and embedded trust to explain the ‘roller-coaster’ nature of the Australia-Indonesia relationship. An examination of Prime Minister Keating and President Suharto as a case of bonded trust between leaders reveals the value such a relationship has in building trust in bilateral relations. However, it also reveals that such trust cannot survive changes in leadership if it has not become more broad…
Innovations in teaching Australian foreign policy
More than ever as the uncertainties of a digitalised world are upon us and where power shifts to and within the region disrupt the familiar patterns of engagement, the acquisition of the knowledge and competencies necessary for Australia to be a trusted international partner are pressing matters. So too, in the development of both personal and professional skills, our pedagogic remit to students guides us to assist them in learning more about the…
Virtual sovereignty? Private internet capital, digital platforms and infrastructural power in the United States
Infrastructural power in the United States, which is the capacity to extract and deploy social resources and initiate and harness technological innovation, is increasingly generated by private internet capital and exercised by digital platforms. In this article we argue that while these private actors do not possess legitimacy, this is a form of 'virtual sovereignty' which complicates the capacity of the US state to exercise infrastructural power…
Trusting technology to wage war
Robotics, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence (RAS-AI) are at the technological edge of militaries trying to achieve 'ethical' war. RAS-AI have been cast as essential technologies for defence forces to develop in order to sustain military advantage. Central to the success of this endeavour is trust: the technologies must be trusted for defence personnel to be willing to use them, for defence to be trusted by the public, and for allies…
Resistance, power, and the new global ethical order
The ethics panel held for the ANU IR Department’s 75th birthday asked panellists to respond to the theme of resistance, power, and the new global ethical order. Vasuki Nesiah, Lana Tatour, James Blackwell, George Carter and Bina D’Costa painted a rich picture of the very political nature of ethics and the contests for ethical leadership currently energising global politics, as well as our responsibilities as academics. Inspired by their comments,…
The development of robotics and autonomous systems in Australia
Robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) are amongst a plethora of new and emerging technologies states are seeking to develop and use to gain military advantage in an environment of intensifying strategic competition. Australia is a key player when it comes to autonomous systems, with trusted autonomous systems (TAS) being earmarked as a priority area. RAS have taken an increasingly prevalent place in Australian research, discourse, military thinki…
Trusted intermediaries
Studying trust at the international level is one of the greatest challenges for trust studies. In this article I seek to expand on work which has sought to study trust between states in a way which avoids anthropomorphising the state, and retains the salience of interpersonal trust. To do this, I consider trust between states as existing in a web of relationships, from relationships between government figures, to military personnel, to members of…
Bonded but not embedded
The aim of this article is to use theories of bonded and embedded trust to explain the ‘roller-coaster’ nature of the Australia-Indonesia relationship. An examination of Prime Minister Keating and President Suharto as a case of bonded trust between leaders reveals the value such a relationship has in building trust in bilateral relations. However, it also reveals that such trust cannot survive changes in leadership if it has not become more broad…
Bonded but not embedded
The aim of this article is to use theories of bonded and embedded trust to explain the ‘roller-coaster’ nature of the Australia-Indonesia relationship. An examination of Prime Minister Keating and President Suharto as a case of bonded trust between leaders reveals the value such a relationship has in building trust in bilateral relations. However, it also reveals that such trust cannot survive changes in leadership if it has not become more broad…
Innovations in teaching Australian foreign policy
More than ever as the uncertainties of a digitalised world are upon us and where power shifts to and within the region disrupt the familiar patterns of engagement, the acquisition of the knowledge and competencies necessary for Australia to be a trusted international partner are pressing matters. So too, in the development of both personal and professional skills, our pedagogic remit to students guides us to assist them in learning more about the…
The development of robotics and autonomous systems in Australia
Robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) are amongst a plethora of new and emerging technologies states are seeking to develop and use to gain military advantage in an environment of intensifying strategic competition. Australia is a key player when it comes to autonomous systems, with trusted autonomous systems (TAS) being earmarked as a priority area. RAS have taken an increasingly prevalent place in Australian research, discourse, military thinki…
Trusted intermediaries
Studying trust at the international level is one of the greatest challenges for trust studies. In this article I seek to expand on work which has sought to study trust between states in a way which avoids anthropomorphising the state, and retains the salience of interpersonal trust. To do this, I consider trust between states as existing in a web of relationships, from relationships between government figures, to military personnel, to members of…
Virtual sovereignty? Private internet capital, digital platforms and infrastructural power in the United States
Infrastructural power in the United States, which is the capacity to extract and deploy social resources and initiate and harness technological innovation, is increasingly generated by private internet capital and exercised by digital platforms. In this article we argue that while these private actors do not possess legitimacy, this is a form of 'virtual sovereignty' which complicates the capacity of the US state to exercise infrastructural power…
The Political Economy of Australian Militarism
Australia is undergoing a process of substantial militarization. This article argues that one of the key forces underpinning Australia’s militarization is an emergent military–industrial–academic complex (MIAC), comprised of increasingly close relationships between universities, defense, and defense industry. The connections between the three have rapidly intensified since 2016 due to changes in defense industry policy, pessimism regarding the st…
Resistance, power, and the new global ethical order
The ethics panel held for the ANU IR Department’s 75th birthday asked panellists to respond to the theme of resistance, power, and the new global ethical order. Vasuki Nesiah, Lana Tatour, James Blackwell, George Carter and Bina D’Costa painted a rich picture of the very political nature of ethics and the contests for ethical leadership currently energising global politics, as well as our responsibilities as academics. Inspired by their comments,…
Seeking safety, finding fear
Together, with the rise in populist politics and growing polarisation, immigration detention is a salient topic mobilised during elections to generate political support and votes in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), Australia and the United Kingdom (UK). The language used about immigration detention, refugees and asylum seekers has impacts on policy and on lives, including exclusion, criminalisation, detainment, detention and expulsion. Existing scholar…
Trusting technology to wage war
Robotics, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence (RAS-AI) are at the technological edge of militaries trying to achieve 'ethical' war. RAS-AI have been cast as essential technologies for defence forces to develop in order to sustain military advantage. Central to the success of this endeavour is trust: the technologies must be trusted for defence personnel to be willing to use them, for defence to be trusted by the public, and for allies…
Introduction
What would it mean to put the ethics of war in dialogue with the experience of war? The special section that follows explores this question. Featuring contributions from scholars across a range of disciplinary and academic backgrounds, it asks what we, as scholars of ethics and international affairs, stand to learn about the ethics of war by engaging with the experience of war. What can those who have direct personal experience of armed conflict—…
The Intellectual Inheritance of Machine Learning and the Ethics of Algorithmic War
In this article I am concerned with interrogating the intersection between the Newtonian and Cartesian intellectual inheritances of AI and machine learning, and ideas about the ethics of war. As militaries turn to new and emerging technologies to maintain or achieve a technological edge over their perceived adversaries, they create new imaginaries of future war—alongside the technologists, academics, and defense scientists crafting new terms, ide…
Deep sea mining, think tanks, and the politics of expertise
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