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Arms and influence : U.S. technology innovation and the evolution of international security norms / Jeffrey S. Lantis.
LIBRA UA23 .L27 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lantis, Jeffrey S., 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National security--Technological innovations--United States.
- National security.
- Military weapons--Technological innovations--United States.
- Military weapons.
- Military weapons--Technological innovations.
- Technological innovations.
- United States--Military policy.
- United States.
- Military policy.
- United States--Foreign relations.
- International relations.
- Technology and international relations.
- International law.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 260 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford Security Studies, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Arms and Influence explores the complex relationship between technology, policymaking, and international norms. Modern technological innovations such as the atomic bomb, armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and advanced reconnaissance satellites have fostered fascinating debates about the boundaries of international norms and legitimate standards of state behavior. These innovations have allowed governments new opportunities for action around the world, in some cases reopening questions about international standards in areas such as self-defense, sovereignty, and preemptive strikes. In this book, Jeffrey Lantis develops a new theory of norm change and identifies stages including redefinition (involving domestic political deliberations) and constructive norm substitution (in multilateral institutions). The study takes some of the most controversial new developments in military technologies and embeds them in international relations theory. In-depth original case studies suggest that critical periods of norm change may be under way across numerous different issue areas. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Theorizing norm change
- The atom bomb : constructing a nuclear order
- Atoms for peace? : new nuclear technology export controls
- Satellites and sovereignty : humanitarian intervention and the "responsibility to protect"
- Armed UAVs and the norm against assassination of foreign adversaries
- The final frontier? : weaponizing space.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804793230
- 0804793239
- 9780804799775
- 0804799776
- OCLC:
- 932110000
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