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. and Anna Pluff (2023) "Manhattan Project Scientists Believed the Way We Get Out Alive is World Government" Inkstick Media. September 14, 2023.

Emery, John R. and Anna Pluff (2023) "What 'Oppenheimer' Misses About the Decision to Drop the Bomb" Inkstick Media. August 10, 2023

Pluff, Anna and John R. Emery (2023) "Failed Visionaries: Scientific Activism and the Cold War" Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. August 9, 2023. 

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. (2022) "Good Kill: The Morality of Remote Warfare" Review of Is Remote Warfare Moral? Weighing Issues of Life and Death from 7,000 Miles. by Joseph O. Chapa H-Sci-Med-Tech December 2022. 

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

Pluff, Anna and John R. Emery “The Nuclear Priesthood: Religious Imaginaries and the Atom Bomb”
Status: Draft 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