Transhumanizing War: Performance Enhancement and the Implications for Policy and Society, and the Soldier by H. Christian Breede, Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger, Stéfanie von Hlatky

Date01 March 2021
Published date01 March 2021
DOI10.1177/0020702021994655
Subject MatterBook Reviews
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International Journal 76(1)
members within the landscape of international relations. In Arctic studies there is
always the danger of events moving faster than our analyses can keep up, which,
here, exists alongside the risk that too much focus on the metaphorical trees of
diplomatic practice within the AC overlooks the forest of global politics in which
they are rooted. There is much to appreciate in what this book offers for our
understanding of the AC, but its unwillingness to offend equally and its ambiva-
lence toward its own analytical framework leaves room for further and deeper
discussion of both the challenges facing the council and the power dynamics
among its members and beyond.
ORCID iD
Wilfrid Greaves
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5485-068X
H. Christian Breede, Stephanie A.H. Belanger, Stefanie von Hlatky
Transhumanizing War: Performance Enhancement and the Implications for Policy and Society, and the
Soldier.
Montreal and Kingston: Queen’s-McGill University Press, 2020. 297pp. $39.95 (paper)
ISBN: 978-0-77355-948-6
Reviewed by: Victoria Tait (Victoria.tait@carleton.ca), Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada
Debate surrounding the use of human performance enhancement (HPE) is perhaps
nowhere more fraught than in its use in the armed forces. In Transhumanizing
War: Performance Enhancement and the Implications for Policy, Society, and the
Soldier, an anthology edited by H. Christian Breede, Stephanie A.H. Belanger, and
Stefanie von Hlatky, readers are confronted with cutting-edge research on military
HPE and several of the ethical challenges likely to confound private and public
firms in the coming decades. This volume aims to bridge the gap between social
scientific and applied scientific perspectives, reconnecting the scientific work of
military research on HPE with the ethical quagmires of modifying the minds
and bodies of military personnel. The anthology presents its readers with a
thought-provoking hybrid of futures analysis and applied bioengineering—part
imaginative...

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