The European Union and lethal autonomous weapons systems: united in diversity?

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  • dc.contributor.author Barbé, Esther
  • dc.contributor.author Badell Sánchez, Diego
  • dc.date.accessioned 2022-02-07T12:35:16Z
  • dc.date.available 2022-02-07T12:35:16Z
  • dc.date.issued 2020
  • dc.description.abstract This chapter focuses on norm contestation in the emerging stage by exploring the possible prohibition of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), which is advocated by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. At the UN Convention on Conventional Weapons, there is a shared agreement regarding a new organizing principle on human control. But different normative views on how human control should be regulated are leading the debate to a deadlock situation. On the one hand, the group advocating for inaction and on the other hand, the group of countries willing to ban LAWS. To avoid this, Germany and France together with the EU delegation worked on a soft law instrument. At the intra-EU level, an interinstitutional agreement between the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the EU has agreed to do not fund LAWS within the European Defence Fund. All in all, in both international organizations deliberation as a mode of contestation was dominant and resulted in a soft contestation of the emerging norm. As a result, the EU at the international level-triggered norm followership, where its fundamental norms and values of EU foreign policy proved to be resilient, while at the intra-EU level it enhanced internal cohesiveness.
  • dc.description.sponsorship Esther Barbé wishes to acknowledge the Observatory of European Foreign Policy-SGR, funded by the Agency for Management of University Research Grants (AGAUR) of the Catalan Government (Grant agreement: 2017-SGR-693). Diego Badell thanks the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness for funding (FPI, Grant number: BES-2017-079692).
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  • dc.identifier.citation Barbé E, Badell D. The European Union and lethal autonomous weapons systems: united in diversity? In: Johansson-Nogués E, Vlaskamp M, Barbé E, editors. European Union contested: norm research in international relations. Cham: Springer; 2020. p. 133-52. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33238-9_8
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33238-9_8
  • dc.identifier.isbn 9783030332372
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/52430
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Springer
  • dc.relation.ispartof Johansson-Nogués E, Vlaskamp M, Barbé E, editors. European Union contested: norm research in international relations. Cham: Springer; 2020. p. 133-52
  • dc.relation.ispartofseries Norm research in international relations
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/GrantAgreement/ES/2PE/BES2017-079692
  • dc.rights © Springer This is a author's accepted manuscript of: Barbé E, Badel D. The European Union and lethal autonomous weapons systems: united in diversity? In: Johansson-Nogués E, Vlaskamp M, Barbé E, editors. European Union contested: foreign policy in a new global context. Cham: Springer; 2020. p. 133-52. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33238-9_8. The final version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33238-9_8
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  • dc.title The European Union and lethal autonomous weapons systems: united in diversity?
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