This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and
peace. Focusing on robots information communication technologies and other automation
technologies it offers brief interventions that assess how automation may alter extant
political social and economic institutions norms and practices that comprise the global
political economy. In doing so this collection deals directly with such issues as automated
production trade war state sanctioned robot violence financial speculation transnational
crime and policy decision making. This interdisciplinary volume will appeal to students
scholars and practitioners grappling with political economic and social problems that arise
from rapid technological change that automates the prospects for human prosperity and peace.
