Non-lethal Weapons as Legitimising Forces? : Technology, Politics and the Management of Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780714683607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 286 str.

Brian Rappert; Frank Barnaby

Opis

Whether in international military interventions or routine policing activities the use of force raises a host of questions about appropriateness, necessity and proportionality. Recently attention has focused on the possibility of so-called non-lethal weapons to provide greater legitimacy to the use of force by minimizing injury.

Recenzje

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Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Brian Rappert