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Across the world, drones are coming into the hands of new actors—foreign governments, law enforcement, terrorist organizations, humanitarian organizations and even UN peacekeepers—making it even more important to understand what kind of world they might produce. Michael Boyle’s new book, The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace, explores how the unique features of drone technology alter the strategic choices of governments and non-state actors alike by transforming their risk calculations and expanding their goals on and off the battlefield.
What impact will drone technology have on the patterns of war and peace in the next century? Will drones produce a more peaceful world, or will the prospect of remote warfare lead governments to engage in more conflicts?
Join us for a conversation with Michael Boyle and Michael Horowitz as they discuss how drones are quietly altering the dynamics of wars, humanitarian crises, and peacekeeping missions while generating new risks to security and to privacy.
SPEAKERS
Dr. Michael J. Boyle is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers Camden and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). His previous books include Violence after War: Explaining Instability in Post-Conflict States (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2014), Legal and Ethical Implications of Drone Warfare (London: Routledge, 2016), and Non-Western Responses to Terrorism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019).
Michael C. Horowitz is Director of Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics. He has published in a wide array of peer reviewed journals, as well as more popular outlets such as the New York Times, Politico, and Foreign Policy. Professor Horowitz spent 2013 working for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in the Department of Defense as an International Affairs Fellow, funded by the Council on Foreign Relations. He is affiliated with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Center for a New American Security. He is also a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
