Political Science Security (national & International)
Disarming Intervention
A Critical History of Non-Lethality
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2015
- Category
- Security (National & International), General, Peace
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774828567
- Publish Date
- Aug 2015
- List Price
- $125.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774828536
- Publish Date
- Aug 2015
- List Price
- $85.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774828543
- Publish Date
- Dec 2015
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
Non-lethal weapons take many forms – from rubber bullets to electroshock and long-range acoustic devices – which their proponents argue are ethical, legal, and humane. Social scientists, historians, legal scholars, and activists have long challenged the use of non-lethal weapons in policing and war. Until now, little scholarly attention has been paid to the social, historical, and legal relations that animate the concept of non-lethality, nor is there a comprehensive account of how the concept has achieved social and political acceptance. Disarming Intervention tells the story of how the concept of non-lethality emerged in a series of nineteeth-century legal codes that governed the conduct of international hostilities, and how it continued to legitimate US-led armed conflicts as ethical, legal, and humane throughout the twentieth century.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Seantel Anaïs is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Winnipeg.