Struggles over epistemic capital : complex governance objects and the making of lethal autonomous weapons systems

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dc.contributor.authorWINDFELD, Frederik Carl
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-05T12:03:01Z
dc.date.embargo2026-10-29
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 29 April 2025
dc.description.abstractThe regulation of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has emerged as a salient and perplexing issue in global governance, especially in the UN GGE on LAWS. This article argues that contentions over defining and regulating LAWS extend beyond country positions. As LAWS are mobilised as a complex governance object, these disputes also stem from struggles over epistemic capital, where experts provide different interpretations of such systems’ component parts and functional properties. The article analyzes three epistemic domains—legal, technical, and military—in the academic debate over LAWS as proxies for the underlying codified capital that can be mobilized as a resource for epistemic power in the regulatory exercise. Each of the three domains offers a distinct rendering of LAWS, differing in emphasis, characterization, and assessment of regulatory prospects. The article highlights how the delineation of governance objects considered complex is a process which interpellates and reinforces epistemic authorities, thus generating political effects.
dc.embargo.terms2026-10-29
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dc.identifier.citationContemporary security policy, 2025, OnlineFirst
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13523260.2025.2496045
dc.identifier.issn1743-8764
dc.identifier.issn1352-3260
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/92580
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.putcode1814/80490:183529276
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofContemporary security policy
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
dc.rights.licenseAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectArms control
dc.subjectEpistemic cultures
dc.subjectExpertise
dc.subjectGlobal governance
dc.subjectKnowledge
dc.titleStruggles over epistemic capital : complex governance objects and the making of lethal autonomous weapons systems
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