Controlling the Weapons of War (Contemporary Security Studies) - Softcover

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Rappert, Brian

 
9780415647014: Controlling the Weapons of War (Contemporary Security Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415647010 ISBN 13: 9780415647014
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry.

This new study considers how governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, political commentators and others have responded to the predicaments associated with imposing classifications about the relative acceptability of force and what is accomplished in their strategies for doing so. It develops these issues through combining thematic and conceptual analysis with the examination of varied cases of prohibitions on ‘conventional’ and ‘unconventional’ weapons through customary and statutory laws, multilateral treaties, UN resolutions, and national legislation.

The book will appeal to students of security studies, military technology, peace studies, international relations and discourse theory.

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About the Author

Brian Rappert is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, at the School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies at Exeter University.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415647010
ISBN 13 
9780415647014
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
236

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