Denise Garcia
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Northeastern University (website)
twitter: @DeniseGarcia100
email: denisegarcia [at] neu [dot] edu
phone: (617)-373-2879
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Northeastern University (website)
twitter: @DeniseGarcia100
email: denisegarcia [at] neu [dot] edu
phone: (617)-373-2879
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Denise Garcia is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the International Affairs program at Northeastern University in Boston, as well as a Nobel Peace Institute Fellow. She researches on International Law, and the questions of lethal robotics and Artificial Intelligence, global governance of security, and the formation of new international norms and their impact on peace and security. Garcia is the recipient of Northeastern’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award in 2016. Garcia teaches the annual course titled Global Governance of International Security & the World Politics of Diplomacy at the United Nations in Geneva, in cooperation with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research and many other partners. In 2016, she testified to the United Nations on the question of lethal autonomous weapons and their impact on peace and security.
Author of Small Arms and Security - New Emerging International Norms, and Disarmament Diplomacy and Human Security - Norms, Regimes, and Moral Progress in International Relations, her articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, the European Journal of International Security, International Affairs, Ethics & International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Global Policy Journal, International Relations, and elsewhere.
Garcia is proud to have held the title: Sadeleer Family Research Faculty at Northeastern (2011-2016). Prior to joining the faculty of Northeastern University in 2006 (tenured in 2013), Garcia held a three-year appointment at Harvard, at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and the World Peace Foundation’s Intra-State Conflict Program. She holds a Ph.D., International Relations and International Law— Institut des Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement (Graduate Institute for International Studies and Development), University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is the vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, a member of the Academic Council of the United Nations and the Global South Unit for Mediation in Rio de Janeiro. A native of Brazil, Garcia is a devoted yogi, her hobbies include travel and surfing.
Please visit her page on Foreign Affairs.
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Denise Garcia is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the International Affairs program at Northeastern University in Boston, as well as a Nobel Peace Institute Fellow. She researches on International Law, and the questions of lethal robotics and Artificial Intelligence, global governance of security, and the formation of new international norms and their impact on peace and security. Garcia is the recipient of Northeastern’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award in 2016. Garcia teaches the annual course titled Global Governance of International Security & the World Politics of Diplomacy at the United Nations in Geneva, in cooperation with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research and many other partners. In 2016, she testified to the United Nations on the question of lethal autonomous weapons and their impact on peace and security.
Author of Small Arms and Security - New Emerging International Norms, and Disarmament Diplomacy and Human Security - Norms, Regimes, and Moral Progress in International Relations, her articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, the European Journal of International Security, International Affairs, Ethics & International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Global Policy Journal, International Relations, and elsewhere.
Garcia is proud to have held the title: Sadeleer Family Research Faculty at Northeastern (2011-2016). Prior to joining the faculty of Northeastern University in 2006 (tenured in 2013), Garcia held a three-year appointment at Harvard, at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and the World Peace Foundation’s Intra-State Conflict Program. She holds a Ph.D., International Relations and International Law— Institut des Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement (Graduate Institute for International Studies and Development), University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is the vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, a member of the Academic Council of the United Nations and the Global South Unit for Mediation in Rio de Janeiro. A native of Brazil, Garcia is a devoted yogi, her hobbies include travel and surfing.
Please visit her page on Foreign Affairs.
Recent publications:
- "Redirect military budgets to tackle climate change and pandemics," Nature, August 20, 2020.
- "The Artificial Intelligence Arms Race: Trends and World Leaders in Autonomous Weapons Development," Global Policy, vol. 10, no. 3, September 2019.
- "Governing Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems," Ethics and International Affairs, Dec 13.
- "Future Arms, Technologies, and International Law: Preventive Security Governance", European Journal of International Security, Vol. 1 (1) 2016.
- “Battle Bots: How the World Should Prepare Itself for Robotic Warfare”, Foreign Affairs, May 2015.
- "Killer Robots: Toward the Loss of Humanity", Carnegie Council Journal Ethics and International Affairs, April 2015.
- "Disarming the Lords of War, A New International Treaty to Regulate the Arms Trade", Foreign Affairs, December 2014.
- "The Case Against Killer Robots: Why the United States Should Ban Them", Foreign Affairs, May 2014.
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