The Politics of Emerging Strategic Technologies

1. General Introduction
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

Part I. Emerging Strategic Technologies: Geopolitical Implications

2. Introduction
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

3. Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

4. Energy and Climate Change
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

5. Health Care
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

6. Biotechnology
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

7. Genomics
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

8. Nanotechnology
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

9. Materials Science
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

10. Artificial Intelligence
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

11. Conclusions of Part I
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

Part II. Emerging Strategic Technologies: Human Enhancement, Dignity and Destiny Implications

12. Introduction: Definitions, Terms and Concepts
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

13. Human Enhancement: The Nature of the Debate
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

14. The Science and Technology of Human Enhancement
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

15. The Geopolitics of Human Enhancement: Applying the ‘Multi-Sum Security Principle’
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

16. Criteria for a Regulatory Framework of Human Enhancement
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

17. Conclusions of Part II
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

18. General Conclusions
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Geography, general, Evolutionary Biology, Political Sociology