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The latest episode of the  featuring IRW's  and  released late last week. In the episode hosts  and  lead a discussion of the newly launched E-IR book, 'Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives'.

Guests include  and , from Reprieve, , from the APPG on Drones and Modern Conflict, each of who, alongside Lauren and Jolle, contributed a chapter to the book. Although each chapter covers a range of disparate topics, they are united in highlighting on how conflict has changed and the need to put the people in conflict affected countries into the centre of Western policies.

The Remote Warfare Paradox

Lauren and Jolle’s chapter in the book is titled ‘The Remote Warfare Paradox: Democracies, Risk Aversion and Military Engagement’. It fleshes out the reasons why several liberal democracies have turned to remote warfare as an approach. The authors posit three key reasons for the turn to remote approaches to intervention: democratic risk aversion, technological advancements and the networked character of modern warfare. It then outlines some of the major consequences of this shift. The chapter explores how the secrecy surrounding remote warfare, and the way its practiced, attempts to remove war from public debate and potentially makes states more violent rather than less violent.