Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity

by Brian Rappert

Book Overview

A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry.

This new study considers how governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, political commentators and others have responded to the predicaments associated with imposing classifications about the relative acceptability of force and what is accomplished in their strategies for doing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415647010
• ISBN13: 9780415647014
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"