Technology and security : governing threats in the new millennium /

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Imprint:Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Description:xii, 223 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:New security challenges series
New security challenges series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6663443
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Other authors / contributors:Rappert, Brian.
ISBN:9780230019706 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0230019706 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:Online version: Technology and security. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Online version: Technology and security. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Table of Contents:
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Technology and Disciplinary Approaches
  • 1. Science and Technology Policy and International Security
  • 2. Rethinking 'Secrecy' and 'Disclosure': What Science and Technology Studies Can Offer Attempts to Govern WMD Threats
  • 3. Producing Threat Assessments: An Ethnomethodological Perspective on Intelligence on Iraq's Aluminium Tubes
  • Part II. Governance
  • 4. Global Governance and Twenty-first Century Technology
  • 5. The Limits of Security Governance: Technology, Law, and War
  • 6. Technology and the Problem of Civilian Casualties in War
  • Part III. In Focus
  • 7. Preventing the Future Military Misuse of Neuroscience
  • 8. Space Weapons: Technological Folly?
  • 9. Understanding the Broader Context
  • Index