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, a Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of the University of Geneva, is a professor at Northeastern University in Boston and a founding faculty member of the Institute for Experiential Robotics. She is formerly a member of the International Panel for the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons (2017-2022), currently of the Research Board of the Toda Peace Institute (Tokyo) and the Institute for Economics and Peace (Sydney), Vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. She was the Nobel Peace Institute Fellow in Oslo in 2017. A multiple teaching award-winner, her recent publications appeared at Nature, Foreign Affairs, and other top journals.
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.
Her upcoming book is Common Good Governance in the Age of Military Artificial Intelligence with Oxford University Press 2023.
Please visit her page on Foreign Affairs.
Recent publications:
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Denise Garcia, a Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of the University of Geneva, is a professor at Northeastern University in Boston and a founding faculty member of the Institute for Experiential Robotics. She is formerly a member of the International Panel for the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons (2017-2022), currently of the Research Board of the Toda Peace Institute (Tokyo) and the Institute for Economics and Peace (Sydney), Vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. She was the Nobel Peace Institute Fellow in Oslo in 2017. A multiple teaching award-winner, her recent publications appeared at Nature, Foreign Affairs, and other top journals.
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.
Her upcoming book is Common Good Governance in the Age of Military Artificial Intelligence with Oxford University Press 2023.
Please visit her page on Foreign Affairs.
Recent publications:
- "Warming to a New Definition and Call for Global Action: Humanity's Security," Toda Peace Institute, October 2021.
- “Global commons law: norms to safeguard the planet and humanity’s heritage”. International Relations. 2021; 35(3): 422-445, July 24, 2021.
- "Redirect military budgets to tackle climate change and pandemics," Nature 584, 521-523, August 20, 2020.
- "Stop the emerging AI cold war," Nature, May 11, 2021.
- "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.
Books:
- "Disarmament in International Law." In Oxford Bibliographies in International Law. Ed. Tony Carty. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
- Common Good Governance in the Age of Military Artificial Intelligence. Oxford University Press 2023.
- Small Arms and Security - New Emerging International Norms, September 2006.
- Disarmament Diplomacy and Human Security - Norms, Regimes, and Moral Progress in International Relations, March 2012.