Non-Lethal Weapons and Conflict Resolution

A Soft Power Approach

ISBN: 978-0-415-39147-4
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Contemporary Security Studies

A fully up-to-date analysis of the development and deployment of civil and military Non-Lethal Weapons (NLWs), and of the key issues, controversies and concerns they are raising.

Of particular interest in this arena is the introduction of electroshock weapons, acoustic weapons, microwave weapons and biochemical incapacitants. The book includes case studies of the use of NLWs by peacekeeping and peace enforcement forces in Kosovo and Iraq.

Non-Lethal Weapons and Conflict Resolution will be of great interest to students of peace operations, conflict resolution and arms control, and of security studies in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewer, Nick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Ausrüstung & Waffen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Non-Lethal Technologies: An Overview 3. Developing Less Lethal Weapons 4. Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons 5. The Use of Force in the Police 6. Non-Lethal Weapons: Experience of Indian Peacekeeping Forces in Kosovo 7. Less Lethal Options and the Taser Weapon 8. Police Operational Experience of Tasers 9. Implications of Electroshock Weapons

Über Autor(innen)

Nick Lewer is Senior Lecturer, Director Centre for Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. He has published extensively in this field, including the following books: [co-authored with S. Schofield] Non-Lethal Weapons. A Fatal Attraction? Military Strategies and Technologies for 21st Century Conflict (Zed Books, London, 1997) and The Future of Non-Lethal Weapons: Technologies, Operations, Ethics and Law, Frank Cass, London, 2002.