John R. Emery, Ph.D. is a lecturer of National Security as well as Technology and the Ethics of War and Peace for the Master of Arts in International Studies program at Chapman University. He is also an instructor in the Peace Studies Department at Chapman of Vietnam: War, Peace, and Legacy. His area of study is at the intersection of International Relations, critical security studies, ethics of war and peace, intellectual history, and technology, law & society. Previous publications have centered on U.S. drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, creating a hybrid ethical framework between the law enforcement and just war paradigms for evaluating targeted killings outside of declared war zones. Additionally, he has focused on the adoption of drone technology by humanitarian organizations like MSF and UN Peacekeeping missions, analyzing and problematizing the emerging category of humanitarian drones. His work on war, drones, and counter-terrorism has been published in Peace Review and Ethics & International Affairs. Building upon previous research in just war thinking and critical security studies current projects are concerned with the way in which technology is seen as the solution for making war an inherently more ethical space, exploring how the renaissance humanist tradition in political thought can help us to answer the difficult questions of the ethics of war and peace in the era of Big Data, AI, and Machine Learning. Other areas of interest include: constructivist International Relations, U.S. foreign policy, the temporality of the U.S. "War on Terror," international law, morality, terrorism/counter-terrorism, and the use of preventive force short of war. 

Contact: jremery@uci.edu

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