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Smart Technologies, Human Security and Global Justice

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This chapter explores pertinent international trends in decision and articulates contemporary discourse in the discrete domain of the relationship between smart technologies and human security and global justice. The fundamental aim of the chapter is to assess the rather rapidly developing trends of the use of smart technologies to prevent and punish crime, so as to enhance and enable a more effective protection and promotion of such cardinal goals as human security and global justice. In return, the inquiry is linked to the quest of understanding the benefits and limits of smart technologies, taking examples from dominant existing trends in areas of international security and defense, as well as in relevant international judicial decision-making. The chapter reveals nuanced, yet powerful, roles played by smart technologies, identifies specific (in)adequacies of existing regulatory framework, and observes an inescapable imperative of international dialogue and regulatory initiatives about how to best define and use the benefits of smart machines.

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  1. University of Prishtina, Prishtina, 10000, Kosovo

    Qerim Qerimi

  2. Law and Development Research Group, University of Antwerp, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium

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Qerimi, Q. (2021). Smart Technologies, Human Security and Global Justice. In: Popkova, E.G., Sergi, B.S. (eds) "Smart Technologies" for Society, State and Economy. ISC 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 155. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59126-7_78

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