[Air-L] Call for Papers - Critical Military Studies Special Issue “Towards a Responsible AI in the Military? The Politics of Ethics of AI-enabled Weapons”

Wed Nov 5 04:17:21 PST 2025

Dear colleagues,

we would like to invite you to submit a paper to a Special Issue of 
Critical Military Studies <https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcms20> 
entitled

*“Towards a Responsible AI in the Military? The Politics of Ethics of 
AI-enabled Weapons” *

Abstracts are due _December 12, 2025_. Invited full paper submissions 
will be due _June 1, 2026_. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and 
should be send to the guest editors:

Jens Hälterlein, Paderborn University, jens.haelterlein at uni-paderborn.de

Stephanie Schmidt, University of Hamburg, stephanie.schmidt at uni-hamburg.de

Click here for the full Call for Papers and submission instructions. 
<https://meaningfulhumancontrol.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Critical-Military-Studies_Special-Issue_Call-for-Papers.pdf>

Feel free to disseminate this call.

We look forward to your submissions!

Best regards,

Jens Hälterlein & Stephanie Schmidt

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*New publications (selection)*

Hälterlein, Jens: The More-than-human Biopolitics of Swarming – 
Complexity, Emergence and Control in Military Robotics. In: European 
Journal of International Security (2025), 
https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2025.10023.

Hälterlein, Jens: Governing Autonomies. Imagining Responsible AI in the 
“Future Combat Air System” European Armament Project. In: T. Bächle / J. 
Bareis (eds.): The Realities of Autonomous Weapons. Bristol University 
Press 2025, pp. 187-204.

Hälterlein, Jens: Imagining and Governing Artificial Intelligence – the 
Ordoliberal Way: An Analysis of the National Strategy ‘AI Made in 
Germany’. In: AI & Society (2024), 
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01940-0.

Hälterlein, Jens; Weber, Jutta: "Meaningful Human Control” and Complex 
Human-Machine Assemblages – On the Limits of Ethical AI Principles in 
the Context of Autonomous Weapons Systems. In: Ethics and Armed Forces, 
2024/1.

Hälterlein, Jens: Conflicting Values in Epidemiological Modelling, 
Simulation and Dashboard-Design. A Contribution to the Analysis of the 
Epistemisation of Pandemic Politics. In: M. Burkhardt, J. Kropf, C. Ochs 
& T. Seitz: Frictions. Conflicts, Controversies and Design Alternatives 
in Digital Valuation. Special Issue of Digital Culture & Society, Vol. 
9, Issue 2, 2023, pp. 161-178.

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Dr

*Jens Hälterlein (he/him/his)*

Department of Media Studies