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International humanitarian law-making and new military technologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2022

Yahli Shereshevsky
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Abstract

Military technology has developed rapidly in recent years, and this development challenges existing norms. It has produced countless debates about the application of international humanitarian law (IHL) to areas of war and technology including cyber military operations, military artificial intelligence (including autonomous weapons), the use of drones, and military human enhancement. Despite these rapid progressions, the prospect of creating new treaties to specifically regulate their use by militaries and in armed conflicts is very low. This is largely due to the unequal allocation of military technology among States and the differing interests that result from this inequality. The absence of formal regulation means that State and non-State actors are increasingly embracing informal means of law-making. This is similar to other areas of IHL, such as the regulation of asymmetric conflicts, where norms are contested. In such cases, State and non-State actors employ various informal law-making techniques to advance their normative positions through treaty interpretation and the identification of customary international law.

However, the discussion on military technology differs from other contemporary IHL debates. First, due to the rapid development of such technology and uncertainty about how it will be employed in practice, the interests of the various actors are less clear. Second, there are significant challenges in obtaining accurate information about new military technologies. This makes even the informal law-making path in the context of new technologies more challenging.

This paper explores the dynamics of contemporary international law-making as it relates to the regulation of new military technologies. It identifies the main techniques that are used by the relevant actors and explores the common themes among the various debates over military technology, as well as the potential specific challenges in relation to certain technologies.

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law-makingmilitary technologyIHLcyberautonomous weapons
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 104 , Issue 920-921: How International Humanitarian Law Develops , August 2022 , pp. 2131 - 2152
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the ICRC

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I would like to thank David Hughes and Arie Kacowicz for their valuable comments, and Danielle Regev for her excellent research assistance.

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94 Tallin Manual 2.0, above note 82.

95 ICRC AWS position, above note 58.

96 Y. Shereshevsky, above note 11.

97 Ibid.

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99 Ibid, p. 2.

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103 ICRC AWS position, above note 58.

104 ICRC Customary Law Study, above note 18; ICRC Interpretive Guidance, above note 18.

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108 Civilian Harm Report, above note 102.

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111 R. Schöndorf, above note 84.

112 Available at: https://twitter.com/RoySchondorf/status/1336263003734487042.

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117 C. Carpenter, above note 45.

118 Y. Shereshevsky, above note 11 (focusing on the United States and Israel as the main actors in unilateral law-making initiatives in the context of extraterritorial armed conflicts against non-State armed groups).

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