John R. Emery is a PhD candidate in the department of Political Science at University of California, Irvine. His area of study centers on the intersection of the ethics of war, international law, terrorism studies, and international relations. Asking if traditional discussions of compliance, effectiveness, and legitimacy in international law or discrimination and proportionality in the just war tradition are eroded by the utilization of advanced computing technology to fight against terrorist organizations, his research explores how the logics and discourses of techno-warfare are viewed as making war an inherently more ethical space. By looking to the natural law and humanist traditions, John Emery strives to illuminate some blind spots created by new technologies of war for law and ethics today. His work on drones, ethics, and counter-terrorism can be read in Ethics & International Affairs and Peace Review, as well as book chapters in Georgetown University Press and New York University Press.
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