Brian Rappert

Controlling the Weapons of War (eBook, ePUB)

Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the ethical and intellectual issues and political dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134169016
• Artikelnr.: 38267075

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. This Happening World 1. The Chains that Bind? 2. Striving for Order
3. The Word and the World Part 2 1. The Technologies of Conflict and the
Conflicts about Technology 2. Weapons: What are they? 3. Weapons: What are
they for? 4. Weapons: What do they do? Part 3. Prohibiting Weapons 1.
Predicaments with Prohibitions 2. Fractured Worlds: The Case of Cluster
Bombs 3. Dealing with Unfinished Business Part 4. Future Agendas 1.
Troubles with Humanitarian Prohibitions