Technology, Power & Security Perry World House hosts former visiting scholar to discuss new book on drone technology

Perry World House welcomed back Michael Boyle, a former visiting fellow, to discuss his new book about the influence of drone technology on warfare, surveillance, and peacekeeping on Thursday.

The event featured a conversation between Boyle, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and Perry World House Director and Penn political science professor Michael Horowitz. Boyle's book “The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace,” which was published this April, explores changes in decision-making and patterns of war and peace as a result of the development of drone technology.

According to Boyle, drone development has increased greatly over the past 20 years as the number of countries with armed drones grew from one to 38. Though the majority of drones are used for routine purposes, Boyle said the explosion of the technology suggests that people should understand what it means to open the airspace for so many drones from regulatory and legal vantage points.

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