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Publications: DR Elke Schwarz

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Fazi MB, Kinsley S, Schwarz E, Rose G, Mason O ( 2025 ) . Reading Louise Amoore’s Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others 2020 Duke University Press Durham NC 232 ISBN (paper): 978-1-4780-0831-6 / (hardcover) 978-1-4780-0778-4, US$26.95 (paper) . Political Geography vol. 122 ,
Csernatoni R, Broeders D, Andersen LH, Hoijtink M, Bode I, Lindsay JR, Schwarz E ( 2025 ) . Myth, Power, and Agency: Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics and War . Minds and Machines vol. 35 , ( 3 )
Schwarz E ( 2025 ) . Engineering Moral Failure? The Challenges of Algorithmic Ethics for Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems . The Realities of Autonomous Weapons , Bristol University Press
With S, Dige M, Sparrow R, Bode I, Schwarz E, Renic N, Yde I ( 2025 ) . Death by Algorithm: The Frontier of Automated Killing . Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks, and Responsible Methods , IOS Press
Schwarz E ( 2025 ) . The Hacker Way . Governing the Future , Taylor & Francis
Payne K, Watts TFA, Schwarz E, Amuso V, Burton J ( 2024 ) . Analytical Frameworks and the Geopolitics of AI . The RUSI Journal vol. 169 , ( 5 ) (i) - (ii) .
Schwarz E ( 2024 ) . On the Transformative Power of AI in/for International Relations . The RUSI Journal vol. 169 , ( 5 ) 59 - 60 .
Schwarz E ( 2023 ) . Cybernetics at war: Military artificial intelligence, weapon systems and the de-skilled moral agent . Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare ,
Schwarz E ( 2023 ) . Cybernetics at War . Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare , Taylor & Francis
Schwarz E ( 2022 ) . Killer Robots and the Technological Condition . CAPAS
Schwarz E ( 2022 ) . Neuro-Advertising, Brain-friendly advertising for more success in your market . Springer Nature
Schwarz E, Whetham D, Skerker M ( 2021 ) . Ethics and Cyber Systems: Artificial Intelligence Weapons Systems and Moral Slippage . Cyber Warfare Ethics , Howgate Publishing
Schwarz E, Hansen-Magnusson H, Vetterlein A ( 2021 ) . Delegating moral responsibility in war: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Responsibility Gap . Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations , Routledge
Schwarz E ( 2021 ) . Silicon Valley Goes to War: Artificial Intelligence, Weapons Systems and the De-Skilled Moral Agent . Philosophy Today
Schwarz E ( 2021 ) . Autonomous Weapons Systems, Artificial Intelligence, and the Problem of Meaningful Human Control . Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence vol. 5 , ( 1 ) 53 - 72 .
Schwarz E ( 2020 ) . Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America . JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY vol. 84 , ( 2 ) 661 - 663 .
Schwarz E ( 2018 ) . Death machines: The ethics of violent technologies . Manchester University Press
Schwarz E ( 2018 ) . Flesh and steel: antithetical figures in the war on terrorism . Critical Studies on Terrorism vol. 11 , ( 2 ) 394 - 413 .
Schwarz E ( 2018 ) . Technology and moral vacuums in just war theorising . Journal of International Political Theory vol. 14 , ( 3 ) 280 - 298 .
Johnson LK, Dorn AW, Webb S, Kreps S, Krieger W, Schwarz E, Shpiro S, Walsh PF et al. ( 2017 ) . An INS Special Forum: intelligence and drones/Eyes in the sky for peacekeeping: the emergence of UAVs in UN operations/The democratic deficit on drones/The German Approach to Drone Warfare/Pursuing peace: the strategic limits of drone warfare/Seeing but unseen: intelligence drones in Israel/Drone paramilitary operations against suspected global terrorists: US and Australian perspectives/The ‘Terminator Conundrum’ and the future of drone warfare . Intelligence & National Security vol. 32 , ( 4 ) 411 - 440 .
Schwarz E ( 2015 ) . Prescription drones: On the techno-biopolitical regimes of contemporary ‘ethical killing’ . Security Dialogue vol. 47 , ( 1 ) 59 - 75 .
Schwarz E ( 2014 ) . @hannah_arendt: An Arendtian Critique of Online Social Networks . Millennium Journal of International Studies vol. 43 , ( 1 ) 165 - 186 .
Schwarz E, Renic NC . Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing . Ethics & International Affairs
Schwarz E . From blitzkrieg to blitzscaling: Assessing the impact of venture capital dynamics on military norms . Finance and Society
Schwarz E . Günther Anders in Silicon Valley: Artificial Intelligence and Moral Atrophy . Thesis Eleven
Schwarz E, Holmqvist C . Imagining spectral violence: On morality and meaning in the cyber-nuclear age . Thesis Eleven
Schwarz E, Stevens T, Devanny J . Moral Maze: Ethics for Cyber Weapon Systems . Research Handbook on Cyberwarfare , Edward Elgar Publishing
Schwarz E, Gunkel D . Trolleyology: Algorithmic Ethics of Killer Robots . Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence , Edward Elgar Publishing
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