Isodarco: 26° Corso invernale su "New Military Technologies: implications for Strategy and Arms Control" (Andalo TN, 6-13 gennaio 2013)

La Scuola Internazionale ISODARCO promuove il 26° Corso invernale, aperto a 80 partecipanti, che si svolgerà a Andalo (TN) dal 6 al 13 gennaio 2013. La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è il 14 novembre 2012. La presentazione del corso, dedicato all'impatto strategico degli armamenti delle nuove tecnologie militari, è di seguito riportata.

ISODARCO

Founded in 1966

26th Winter Course

New Military Technologies: implications for Strategy and Arms Control

Andalo (Trento) - Italy

6-13 January 2013

Director of the School: Carlo Schaerf (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy)

Directors of the Course: Matthew Evangelista and Judith Reppy,

(Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

In the last few years there has been dramatic growth in the attention paid to new military technologies, such as drones, cyberweapons, and robots, which differ substantially from “legacy” weapons in important respects. The new weapons are, on the whole, cheaper than the platforms and weapons that have dominated military planning since World War II, and they would seem to require a different force structure. Some of these technologies have already been deployed in large numbers while others are still in development, but there is little question that collectively they are changing how armed conflict is imagined, expanding the geographic and temporal boundaries of war, perhaps lowering the threshold of war, but still posing risks of escalation, and challenging the standard formulation of problems in international humanitarian law and arms control. The course will examine the implications of these weapons for the application of international humanitarian law and standard models of arms control. Do the new technologies require new ways of thinking or can they be subsumed into the established categories? What are their likely consequences for the nuclear nonproliferation regime and the prospects for nuclear disarmament?

PRINCIPAL LECTURERS

Fillipo Andreatta, University of Bologna and Research Center on Peace, War and International Change (Fbk-Cerpeg), Trento, Italy

Alexei Arbatov, IMEMO and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow, Russia

Nadia Arbatova, IMEMO, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS, Moscow, Russia

Denise Garcia, International Affairs Program, Political Science Department, Northeastern University, Boston, Ma, USA

Peter Dombrowski, Strategic Research Department, Naval War College, Newport, RI, USA

Catherine Kelleher, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

George Lewis, Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Eugene Miasnikov, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies, Moscow Region, Russia

Niklas Schoernig, Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Noel Sharkey, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England

Carlo Trezza, Advisory Board of the UN Secretary General for Disarmament Matters, New York/Geneva

Isaiah (Ike) Wilson, III, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, USA

Steve Wright, Applied Global Ethics, Leeds Metropolitan University, England

Confirmations are expected from additional eminent scholars who have been invited to lecture at the School. The course will be articulated in formal lectures, seminars offered by the participants, round tables and general open discussions.

Applications should arrive not later than November 14th, 2012 and should be addressed to the Director of the School: