Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, cyber, quantum, and robotics have wide-ranging implications for world politics, international security, and warfare. These potential impacts, whether in terms of opportunities or challenges, deserve to be comprehensively examined not only across disciplines, but also across generations of scholars. The two-part special section “Emerging Scholars on Emerging Technologies in International Security” contributes to ongoing efforts of conceptualizing emerging technologies in international security by bringing together the research of early career scholars working in this space. It disseminates ideas from a new generation of thinkers in an area that is growing in importance and relevance for world politics. The first part of this special section includes five articles, each with different theoretical and empirical areas of focus, but all written by early career researchers in the spirit of exploring the diversity of topics under the umbrella term of “emerging technologies.”
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