Technology and Security

Governing Threats in the New Millennium

AvBrian Rappert,Brian Rappert

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2007-10-11
Mått:140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Security Challenges
Antal sidor:223
Upplaga:2007
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780230019706

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BRIAN RAPPERT is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology & Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. His long term interest has been the examination of how choices can be and are made about the regulation of technologies in conditions of uncertainty and disagreement.

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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.Durodié