Abstract Political realists’ rejection of the so-called ‘ethics first’ approach political moralists (mainstream liberals), has raised concerns about their own source normativity. Some realists have responded to such by theorizing a distinctively According this view, politics is seen as an autonomous, independent domain with its evaluative standards. Therefore, it in source, rather than some mor...

The debate about lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) characterises them as future problems in need of pre-emptive regulation, for example, through codifying meaningful human control. But technologies are already part and have shaped how states think To understand this normative space, I proceed two steps: first, theorise practices designing, training personnel for, operating weapon integra...