The Political Economy of Robots

Chapter 1. Introduction (Kiggins).- Chapter 2. The Politics of Global Value Chains (Cox and Wartenbe).- Chapter 3. Drug Smuggling and Automated Borders: A Losing Battle of Escalation or State/Non-State Symbiosis (Carey and Marak).- Chapter 4. Policy Implications of People Analytics and the Automated Workplace (Sharp).- Chapter 5. Automatic Medicine? Technology and the Future of Primary Health Care (Skinner and Franz).- Chapter 6. Repressive Robots and the Radical Possibilities of Emancipated Automation (Walsh and Sculos).- Chapter 7. The Political Economy of Bots: Theory and Method in the Study of Social Automation (Woolley).- Chapter 8. The Safe Hand (Gatch).- Chapter 9. Against our Better Judgment: Practical Wisdom in an Age of Smart(er) Machines (Thiele).- Chapter 10. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Policy Decision Making: A Crisis in International Relations Theory? (Kiggins).- Chapter 11. Diplomacy's Lesson's Learned: First World War submarine warfare and the 21st Century drone (Olmstead).- Chapter 12. Conflict, Cohesion and Comrades in Arms: Social Implications of Robotics in the Military (Manjikian).- Chapter 13. Robots writing Chinese and fighting underwater (Austin).- Chapter 14. Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-combatant (Arkin).

Ryan Kiggins is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Central Oklahoma, USA. He edited The Political Economy of Rare Earth Elements: Rising Powers and Technological Change, which was published as part of the International Political Economy series in 2015.