Mr Neil Renic

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Neil Renic is a lecturer in ethics at the University of New South Wales, a fellow at the Centre for Military Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC). He specializes in the changing character of war, the ethics of killing, and emerging military technologies.

E-mail

n.renic@unsw.edu.au

Location

Building 28 Room 109

Books | 2020

Renic NC, 2020, Asymmetric Killing Risk Avoidance, Just War, and the Warrior Ethos, Oxford University Press
Book Chapters | 2023

Renic N, 2023, 'Remote Warfare: Drivers, Limits, Challenges', in Routledge Handbook on the Future of Warfare
Journal articles | 2025

Meibauer G; Renic NC; Rodehau-Noack J; Braun CN; Davis A; Glencross A; Vaha M; Temel VNŞ; Hartnett L; Andrä C; Smith KE, 2025, 'Forum: Dead-Ends, Disasters, Delays? Reflecting on Research Failure in International Studies and Ways to Avoid It', International Studies Perspectives, 26, pp. 209 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekae012

Journal articles | 2025

Percy S; Renic N, 2025, 'A matter of time: the role of timing in regulating military weapons', International Affairs, 101, pp. 1023 - 1042, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaf017

Journal articles | 2025

Renic N; Schwarz E, 2025, 'On the pitfalls of technophilic reason: A commentary on Kevin Jon Heller’s “The concept of ‘the human’ in the critique of autonomous weapons"', Harvard National Security, https://harvardnsj.org/2025/05/23/on-the-pitfalls-of-technophilic-reason-a-commentary-on-kevin-jon-hellers-the-concept-of-the-human-in-the-critique-of-autonomous-weapons/

Journal articles | 2024

Pelopidas B; Renic NC, 2024, 'The Tragedy Trap: On the Tragicized Politics of Nuclear Weapons and Armed Drones and the Making of Unaccountability', Ethics & International Affairs, 38, pp. 209 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0892679424000145

Journal articles | 2024

Renic N, 2024, 'Air Power by Small, Low-Cost Drones: Implications for Future Warfare', Airpower Journal, https://theairpowerjournal.com/air-power-by-small-low-cost-drones-implications-for-future-warfare/

Journal articles | 2024

Renic N, 2024, 'The Cost of Atrocity: Strategic Implications of Russian Battlefield Misconduct in Ukraine', Ethics and International Affairs, 38, pp. 6 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0892679424000054

Journal articles | 2024

Renic N, 2024, 'Tragic reflection, political wisdom, and the future of algorithmic war', Australian Journal Of International Affairs, 78, pp. 247 - 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2024.2328299

Journal articles | 2023

Renic N; Schwarz E, 2023, 'Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing', Ethics and International Affairs, 37, pp. 321 - 343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0892679423000291

Journal articles | 2023

Renic NC; Kaempf S, 2023, 'Violence re-directed: due care and the moral challenge of casualty displacement warfare', International Relations, 37, pp. 228 - 250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00471178221105598

Journal articles | 2023

Renic NC, 2023, 'Superweapons and the myth of technological peace', European Journal of International Relations, 29, pp. 129 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13540661221136764

Journal articles | 2022

Renic NC; Kaempf S, 2022, 'Modern Lawfare: Exploring the Relationship between Military First-Person Shooter Video Games and the “War is Hell” Myth', Global Studies Quarterly, 2, pp. ksab045, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksab045

Journal articles | 2021

Renic NC, 2021, 'Response to Michael J. Boyle’s Review of Asymmetric Killing: Risk Avoidance, Just War, and the Warrior Ethos', Perspectives on Politics, 19, pp. 962 - 962, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592721002103

Journal articles | 2021

Renic NC, 2021, 'The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace. By Michael J. Boyle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 400p. $29.95 cloth.', Perspectives on Politics, 19, pp. 958 - 959, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592721001742

Journal articles | 2019

Renic NC, 2019, 'Battlefield Mercy: Unpacking the Nature and Significance of Supererogation in War', Ethics & International Affairs, 33, pp. 343 - 362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0892679419000364

Journal articles | 2019

Renic NC, 2019, 'Justified killing in an age of radically asymmetric warfare', European Journal of International Relations, 25, pp. 408 - 430, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066118786776

Journal articles | 2018

Renic NC, 2018, 'A Gardener's Vision: UAVs and the Dehumanisation of Violence', Survival, 60, pp. 57 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2018.1542794

Journal articles | 2018

Renic NC, 2018, 'UAVs and the End of Heroism? Historicising the Ethical Challenge of Asymmetric Violence', Journal of Military Ethics, 17, pp. 188 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2019.1585621
Reports | 2024

Renic N, 2024, Drones, Ukraine, and the Future of War, Centre for Military Studies, https://cms.polsci.ku.dk/english/publications/drones-the-russo-ukrainian-war-and-the-future-of-armed-conflict/

Reports | 2022

Renic N; Favaro M, 2022, Negative Multiplicity: Forecasting the Future Impact of Emerging Technologies on International Stability and Human Security, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.25592/ifsh-research-report-010, https://ifsh.de/en/publications/research-report/research-report-010

Reports | 2021

Renic N, 2021, Germany and the Decision about Arming Drones

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