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Political Science Security (national & International)

Disarming Intervention

A Critical History of Non-Lethality

by (author) Seantel Anaïs

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2015
Category
Security (National & International), General, Peace
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774828567
    Publish Date
    Aug 2015
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774828536
    Publish Date
    Aug 2015
    List Price
    $85.00
  • 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.

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Contributor Notes

Seantel Anaïs is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Winnipeg.