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Non-lethal weapons as legitimizing forces? : technology, politics, and the management of conflict / Brian Rappert ; foreword by Frank Barnaby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rappert, Brian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nonlethal weapons--Government policy.
- Nonlethal weapons.
- Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003.
- Contents:
- Part I Claims and Expectations
- 2 What's in a Name? 17
- 3 Tools of the Trade 35
- 4 Threats and Promises 62
- Part II Technologies, Contexts and Controls
- 5 We apons of Minimal Harm?: Assessing Effects 91
- 6 On to the Streets: Examining Major Deployments of Non-Lethals 122
- 7 Controlling Evaluations: The Prospects for Prohibitions 148
- 8 CS Sprays in Britain 175
- 9 Gauging Electroshock Weapons 202
- 10 Humanitarian Interventions, Humanitarian Tools? 228.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 071465440X
- 0714683604
- OCLC:
- 51476829
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