.../methodology/approach The paper is a philosophical study of the potential risks of a future AGI. Findings The paper describes a possible situation where an AGI and humanity find themselves vulnerable vis-a-vis each other, which could lead to an all-out war. It is then argued that, in view...

... for what may come. Originality/value The paper aims to fill the gap in future foresight with regard to Sudan and for this purpose utilized the knowledge among the Sudanese themselves. Conflict Contingency planning War Sudan International politics Jaïr van der Lijn can...

...Jacques Richardson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to arrive at an understanding of how Japan allowed herself to become involved in a conflict with such tragic proportions, for both Japan and others, as the Second World War. Design/methodology/approach In a reconstruction...

..., the future complexity and subtlety of this relationship. It is one that could have a direct bearing on the future of the human race. Originality/value For three generations the spectre of nuclear war has been a received idea of such awesome dimensions as to occlude other, perhaps more imminent...

...Otto Hieronymi; Catherine Currat Fifteen years after the end of the Cold War there is a new deep worldwide preoccupation with the short‐ and long‐term outlook for international order. The case of Iraq shows that there is no valid alternative to an international order based on the principles...

...Jacques Richardson From a forced renunciation in 1946 of war as a tool of international relations, Japan progressed during the next 58 years – first pushed by a former enemy, then entrained by world events and a renewed emergence of nationalism at home – to de facto repudiation...

...Jacques Richardson Military planning has various authors. The kings and emperors of old decided on whom to make war, where and when, with what, and for how long. The British Empire was built on economic push and domination abroad via a strong fleet. When Prussia united Germany in the nineteenth...

...Meng‐Kin Lim Throughout the war‐ and disease‐ridden history of our world, more have died from pathogens than have perished by the sword. Both kinds of war – one seen and one unseen – threaten our very existence. Yet we seem to have learned nothing from our experience on both fronts. What chance...