Publications
Emery, John R. and Hadley Biggs (2022) “Human, All Too Human: Drones, Ethics, and the Psychology of Military Technologies” Political Psychology 43 (3): 605-613. 
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Emery, John R. (2021) "Algorithms, AI, and Ethics of War." Peace Review 33 (2): 205-212.

Emery, John R. (2021) "Moral Choices Without Moral Language: 1950s Political-Military Wargaming at the RAND Corporation." Texas National Security Review 4 (4): 11-31.

DoCarmo, Tania E., Stephen Rea, John R. Emery, Evan P. Conaway, and Noopur Raval (2021) “Law in Computation: What Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data Mean For Law and Society Scholarship.” Law & Policy 43 (2): 170-199.
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Emery, John R. (2020) “Probabilities Toward Death: Bugsplat, Algorithmic Assassinations, and Ethics of Due Care.” Critical Military Studies. Online.

Emery, John R. (2017) “Balancing Security, Risk, and Uncertainty in a World of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty” In Daniel Brunstetter and Jean-Vincent Holeindre (Eds.), The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited: Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. 

Emery, John R. (2016) "The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Humanitarian Drones." Ethics & International Affairs 30 (2): 153-165. This essay was selected for the 30th Anniversary Volume of Ethics & International Affairs as it aided in closing the gap between theory and practice.

Emery, John R. and Daniel Brunstetter. (2016) “Restricting the Preventive Use of Force: Drones, the Struggle Against Non-State Actors and Jus ad Vim.” In Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer Ramos (Eds.). Preventive Force: Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare. New York: New York University Press.
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Emery, John R. and Daniel Brunstetter. (2015) "Drones as Aerial Occupation." Peace Review 27 (4): 424-431.

Popular Articles & Academic Blog Posts
Emery, John R. (2020) "Pandemic Politics: SKYNET, Protests, and the Misuse of Wartime Surveillance Technologies" International Affairs August 27, 2020.
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Emery, John R. (2020) "Historical and Contemporary Reflections on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems" E-IR. April 15, 2020.

Emery, John R. (2019) "Techno-War: Ethical Assumptions of Modernity and the Rise of the Tech Bro." Technology, Security, and Ethics Research Group (TSERG). August 7, 2019.

Emery, John R. (2018) "Killer Robots: Algorithmic Warfare and Techno-Ethics." Platypus: Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC). March 7, 2018.

Emery, John R. (2017) "'Victory' in Mosul: Fighting Well and the Horrors of 'Winning.'" Ethics & International Affairs. August 2, 2017. 

Emery, John R. (2017) "Tomahawk Foreign Policy: Trump and the Use of Force Short of War." Ethics & International Affairs. April 11, 2017.

Emery, John R. (2017) "The Yemen Raid and the Grievability of Lives Lost." Ethics & International Affairs. March 6, 2017. 

​Book Reviews
Emery, John R. (2016) Review of Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice, by Anthony F. Lang Jr., Cian O'Driscoll, and John Williams (Eds.). European Review of International Studies 3 (2): 143-147. 

Emery, John R. (2016) Review of Friended at the Front: Social Media in the American War Zone, by Lisa Ellen Silvestri. H-War: Humanities and Social Science Online.

Research In Progress
Emery, John R. Book Manuscript – Computing Killing: Ethics of War in the Technological Era
Status: Selected Chapters Available
 
Bourgois, Pierre and John R. Emery “Soldier Enhancements: Ethical and Strategic Consequences”
Status: Under Review
 
Mendoza, Mary Anne and John R. Emery “The Philippines, the ‘Water Cure’: Ethics of War and the Tensions of American Empire”
Status: Under Review
 
Emery, John R. “Just War and Giambattista Vico: Poetic Wisdom and the Ethics of War”
Status: Under Review
 
Emery, John R. “Illegal, But Just? Preventive Force Against Nuclear Proliferation”
Status: Draft Available
 
Pluff, Anna and John R. Emery “The Nuclear Priesthood: Religious Imaginaries and the Atom Bomb”
Status: Draft Available