The Future of Non-lethal Weapons: Technologies, Operations, Ethics and Law

by Lewer; Nick

• ISBN13: 9780714682655
• ISBN10: 0714682659
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135317454
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

These essays explore the increase in interest in non-lethal weapons. Such devices have meant that many armed forces and law enforcement agencies are able to act against undesirables without being accused of acting in an inhumane way. Topics for discussion in this volume include: an overview of the future of non-lethal weapons; emerging non-lethal technologies; military and police operational deployment of non-lethal weapons; a scientific evaluation of the effectiveness of non-lethal weapons; changes in international law needed to take into account non-lethal technologies; developments in genomics leading to new chemical incapacitants; implications for arms control and proliferation; the role of non-lethal weapons in human rights abuses; conceptual, theoretical and analytical perspectives on the nature of non-lethal weapons development.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(11)
Nick Lewer
An Overview of the Future of Non-Lethal Weapons	12	(14)
John Alexander
`Non-Lethal' Weapons and International Law: Three Perspectives on The Future	26	(13)
David P. Fidler
The Revolution in Military Affairs Debate and Non-Lethal Weapons	39	(14)
Gerrard Quille
Towards an Understanding of Non-Lethality	53	(22)
Brian Rappert
The Role of Sub-Lethal Weapons in Human Rights Abuse	75	(12)
Steve Wright
Future Police Operations and Non-Lethal Weapons	87	(12)
Jorma Jussila
Operationalizing Non-Lethality: A Northern Ireland Perspective	99	(13)
Colin Burrows
Non-Lethal Weapons Technologies: The Case for Independent Scientific Analysis	112	(15)
Jurgen Altmann
Perspectives and Implications for the Proliferation of Non-Lethal Weapons in the Context of Contemporary Conflict, Security Interests and Arms Control	127	(14)
Nick Lewer
Tobias Feakin
Non-Lethal Weapons: R2IPE for Arms Control Measures?	141	(26)
Victor Wallace
Future Incapacitating Chemical Agents: The Impact of Genomics	167	(15)
Malcolm Dando
Select Bibliography	182	(7)
Notes on Contributors	189	(2)
Index	191