Technology and security : governing threats in the new millennium

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    • Rappert, Brian

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Technology and security : governing threats in the new millennium

edited by Brian Rappert

(New security challenges series / series editor, Stuart Croft)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book takes forward the existing state of academic understanding where security and technology intersect. It assesses the challenges posed by emerging scientific and technological developments for security while understanding how perceptions of security threats are themselves formed in relation to conceptions of science and technology.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • B.Rappert & S.Croft PART I: TECHNOLOGY AND DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES Science & Technology Policy and International Security
  • A.James Rethinking "Secrecy" and "Disclosure"
  • B.Rappert & B.Balmer Producing Threat Assessments
  • C.Boudeau PART II: GOVERNANCE Global Governance and Twenty-First Century Technology
  • J.Whitman The Limits of Security Governance: Technology, Law and War
  • T.Farrell Technology and the Problem of Civilian Casualties in War
  • J.Stone PART III: IN FOCUS Preventing the Future Military Misuse of Neuroscience
  • M.Dando Space Weapons: Technological Folly?
  • M.Hilborne Understanding the Broader Context
  • B.Durodie

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  • New security challenges series

    series editor, Stuart Croft

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    : hardback (series standing order ISBN) , : pbk (series standing order ISBN)

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