Non-lethal Weapons as Legitimising Forces?

Technology, Politics and the Management of Conflict

Brian Rappert (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2003
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7146-5440-9 (ISBN)

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This work discusses the technologies and ethics of non-lethal weapons, for example blinding someone with a laser, leaving them blind forever, versus killing them outright.

As mankind finds ever more impious ways to kill and maim, some look to non-lethal weapons as a fix. Brian Rappert discusses the technologies involved and the ethics of, for example blinding someone with a laser, leaving them blind forever, versus killing them outright.

Brian Rappert is a Research Fellow in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham. He is author of numerous reports and articles on the assessments of risky technology.

Part 1 Claims and expectations: what's in a name?; tools of the trade; threats and promises. Part 2 Technologies, contexts and controls: weapons of minimal harm? assessing effects; on to the streets - examining major deployments of non-lethals; controlling evaluations - the prospects for prohibitions. Part 3 Case studies: CS sprays in Britain; gauging electroshock weapons; humanitarian interventions, humanitarian tools?. Conclusions and recommendations.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2003
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	0-7146-5440-X / 071465440X
ISBN-13	978-0-7146-5440-9 / 9780714654409
Zustand	Neuware