Chick Edmond

The tradeoff between democratic governance and external security guarantees in a multipolar order

Protection diplomacy is defined as a strategic exchange between governments in which democratic accountability (openness, participation, oversight) is traded for military protection, economic protection or diplomatic protection from powerful states abroad. This study addresses ga...

Autonomous weapons and strategic stability

The increasing number of artificial intelligence (AI) elements within military systems has introduced new forms of security dilemmas related to speed, level of secrecy, and transfer of responsibility from humans to machines. This article addresses the question of whether or how A...