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1. Controlling the Weapons of War

   Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity

   By Brian Rappert

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   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...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. A Web of Prevention

   Biological Weapons, Life Sciences and the Governance of Research

   Edited by Brian Rappert, Caitriona McLeish

   Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series

   ?A Web of Prevention provides a timely contribution to the current debate about life science research and its implications for security. It is an informative guide for both experts and the public? It is a forward-looking contribution covering both ends of the equation and creates momentum for the...

   Published October 3rd 2007 by Routledge
3. Non-lethal Weapons as Legitimising Forces?

   Technology, Politics and the Management of Conflict

   By Brian Rappert

   As mankind finds ever more impious ways to kill and maim, some look to non-lethal weapons as a fix. Brian Rappert discusses the technologies involved and the ethics of, for example blinding someone with a laser, leaving them blind forever, versus killing them outright....

   Published April 30th 2003 by Routledge