Non-lethal Weapons as Legitimising Forces?: Technology, Politics and the Management of Conflict
ISBN: 9780203010402
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; History; Military & Naval History;

As mankind finds ever more impious ways to kill and maim, some look to non-lethal weapons as a fix. Brian Rappert discusses the technologies involved and the ethics of, for example blinding someone with a laser, leaving them blind forever, versus killing them outright.


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