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彼得·沃伦·辛格（Peter Warren Singer，1974年—），美国政治学家，主要关注现代战争的研究。29岁时成为布鲁金斯学会最年轻的资深研究员。他曾是布鲁金斯学会萨班中东政策中心美国伊斯兰世界政策研究中心创始主任。他还在哈佛大学贝尔弗科学和国际事务中心、美国国防部巴尔干工作组，以及国际和平学院工作过。他曾获普林斯顿大学伍德罗·威尔逊公共与国际事务学院文学士学位、哈佛大学政治学博士学位。

他的第一部专著《企业武士：私营军事产业的兴起》（2003）率先探讨了提供提供军事服务租用的私营企业，这一产业很快就获得了重要意义，其中一些这样的公司在伊拉克扮演了不光彩的角色。《童子军》（2005）探讨了儿童在历代战争中的作用，这种作用在进入21世纪以来反而增加了。哥伦比亚、塞拉利昂、利比里亚、刚果和缅甸等教育不发达的国家，儿童很容易被用作战争工具，有时甚至成为炮灰或探雷器。辛格讨论了发动社会组织让这些儿童重回正常轨道的种种对策。《网络战争》（2009）则探讨了机器人在现代战争中越来越重要的作用。

Peter Warren Singer (born 1974) is an American political scientist, an international relations scholar and a specialist on 21st-century warfare. He is also a New York Times bestselling author.

Career

Singer is currently a Strategist for the New America Foundation, a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, and a founder of Useful Fiction LLC. He has also received the title of a "mad scientist" for the US Army's Training and Doctrine Command. Singer previously worked at the Harvard University Belfer Center, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and was senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he was director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence. Singer also served as coordinator of the Defense Policy Task Force for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign as well as contributing editor for Popular Science.

Singer has been named to the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" list by Foreign Policy. Defense News named him one of the 100 most influential people on defense issues. He also served on the advisory group for Joint Forces Command, helping the U.S. military visualize and plan for the future. In 2015, he was named by Onalytica analysis as one of the ten most influential voices on cybersecurity. In addition to his work on conflict issues, Singer was a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy.

Singer has provided commentary on technology and military affairs for media outlets including ABC News Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS-60 Minutes, CNN, Fox, NPR, The Daily Show, and the NBC Today Show.

He is also a founder and organizer of multiple non-profit initiatives. They include the U.S.–Islamic World Forum, a global conference that brings together leaders from across the United States and the Muslim world, the Cyber Citizenship initiative, which seeks to build skills among K-12 students to have greater resilience from online threats of misinformation and disinformation, and the #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship, which support professionals from traditionally underrepresented communities in the field of cybersecurity.

Singer has also worked with a variety of entertainment world projects for Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, and Universal, including the movies Traitor, and Whistleblower, the TV series Strike Back and Curiosity, as well as the 24: Redemption movie/DVD. Singer served as consultant on the bestselling Activision video game series Call of Duty.

Books

Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (2003, Cornell University Press, ISBN 0801441145)

Children at War

Children at War (2005, Pantheon, ISBN 9780520248762)

Wired for War

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century (Penguin, 2009, ISBN 9781594201981)

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780199918096)

Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, ISBN 0544142845)

LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, ISBN 9781328695741)

Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020, ISBN 9781328637239)

Task Force Talon: A Novel of the Army's Next Fight

Task Force Talon: A Novel of the Army's Next Fight is an upcoming novel by Singer and August Cole.