Niklas Schörnig
Biographic Data
| ID | 4382816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niklas Schörnig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niklas |
| FAMILY NAME | Schörnig |
| SIGNATURE | SCHÖRNIG N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peace Research Institute Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8055-0381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Armament, Arms Control and Artificial Intelligence
Armament, Arms Control and Artificial Intelligence
A necessary step back
A few years back, the rapid progress of international efforts to ban lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) left arms controllers amazed: only five years after the founding of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), the dangers of autonomous weapons were being debated in a UN context, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), with non-state actors and state actors alike finding common ground in rejecting weapon sy…
Killer drones
This article sets out to probe the peculiar nexus between democracy and the military use of unmanned systems. To this end, it draws on a critical, ‘antinomic’ reading of democratic peace theory. Tying into the theoretical scope of research conducted within the democratic distinctiveness programme that emerged out of the democratic peace debate, this entails fathoming out the ways in which democracies are distinct from other regime types. It inclu…
The Vision of War without Casualties
Casualty aversion is understood to be one major factor influencing the way Western democracies have been fighting theirwars since the end of the cold war. However, only a few studies have systematically tested its influence on state behavior. Consequently, important questions about the scope and depth of its relevance remain unanswered. This study opens up a new way of testing the casualty hypothesis by systematically comparing 587 advertisements…
Killer drones
This article sets out to probe the peculiar nexus between democracy and the military use of unmanned systems. To this end, it draws on a critical, ‘antinomic’ reading of democratic peace theory. Tying into the theoretical scope of research conducted within the democratic distinctiveness programme that emerged out of the democratic peace debate, this entails fathoming out the ways in which democracies are distinct from other regime types. It inclu…
The Vision of War without Casualties
Casualty aversion is understood to be one major factor influencing the way Western democracies have been fighting theirwars since the end of the cold war. However, only a few studies have systematically tested its influence on state behavior. Consequently, important questions about the scope and depth of its relevance remain unanswered. This study opens up a new way of testing the casualty hypothesis by systematically comparing 587 advertisements…
The Vision of War without Casualties
Casualty aversion is understood to be one major factor influencing the way Western democracies have been fighting theirwars since the end of the cold war. However, only a few studies have systematically tested its influence on state behavior. Consequently, important questions about the scope and depth of its relevance remain unanswered. This study opens up a new way of testing the casualty hypothesis by systematically comparing 587 advertisements…
Killer drones
This article sets out to probe the peculiar nexus between democracy and the military use of unmanned systems. To this end, it draws on a critical, ‘antinomic’ reading of democratic peace theory. Tying into the theoretical scope of research conducted within the democratic distinctiveness programme that emerged out of the democratic peace debate, this entails fathoming out the ways in which democracies are distinct from other regime types. It inclu…
A necessary step back
A few years back, the rapid progress of international efforts to ban lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) left arms controllers amazed: only five years after the founding of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), the dangers of autonomous weapons were being debated in a UN context, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), with non-state actors and state actors alike finding common ground in rejecting weapon sy…
Armament, Arms Control and Artificial Intelligence
Armament, Arms Control and Artificial Intelligence
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Arms control (2 works) · Cold war (2 works) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)