Bioviolence
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-70969-9 (ISBN)
Bioviolence is the hostile infliction of disease: our most fundamental terror. Traitors to humanity could inflict vast tolls making everyone potentially vulnerable. Bioviolence is the most realistic way for humanity's traitors to raze the pillars of modern civilization. Too little is being done to prevent bioviolence. While bio-offenders are becoming more focused and organized, prevention policies are vague, gap-ridden, and unsupervised. No other threat presents such severe danger yet such a failure of leadership to reduce risks. The strategy for preventing bioviolence requires a broad international commitment to promote bioscience while understanding its inherent and unavoidable dangers. Bioviolence threats shrink our planet into an interdependent neighborhood. This book explores how global governance should evolve to address challenges of advancing science and technology.
Barry Kellman teaches international law and is Director of the International Weapons Control Center at DePaul University College of Law. He is also Special Advisor to the Interpol Program on Prevention of Bio-Crimes and senior chair of the American Bar Association Committee on International Law and Security. Professor Kellman's work focuses on biological terrorism. He served on the National Academies of Sciences Committee on Research Standards and Practices To Prevent the Destructive Application of Biotechnology (2003). He was Legal Adviser to the National Commission on Terrorism and was later commissioned by the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) to draft Managing Terrorism's Consequences that reviews legal authorities responding to terror activity in the United States.
Prologue; Foreword Ronald K. Noble; Introduction; Part I. The Bioviolence Condition and How it Came to Be: 1. Why worry?; 2. Methods of bioviolence; 3. Who did bioviolence? Who wants to do it?; Part II. The Bioviolence Prevention Strategy: 4. Strategic foundations; 5. Complication: what law enforcers should stop; 6. Improving resistance through bioscience; 7. Public health preparedness; 8. International nonproliferation; 9. The challenge of global governance; Conclusion.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.9.2007 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 600 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-70969-5 / 0521709695 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-70969-9 / 9780521709699 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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