Technology and Security: Governing Threats in the New Millennium

✍ Scribed by Brian Rappert

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Series: New Security Challenges
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Technology and Security takes forward the existing state of academic understanding where security and technology intersect. It assesses the challenges posed by emerging scientific and technological developments for security while understanding how perceptions of security threats are themselves formed in relation to conceptions of science and technology.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Abbreviations......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Introduction......Page 14
Part I: Technology and Disciplinary Approaches......Page 36
1 Science and Technology Policy and International Security......Page 38
2 Rethinking 'Secrecy' and 'Disclosure': What Science and Technology Studies Can Offer Attempts to Govern WMD Threats......Page 58
3 Producing Threat Assessments: An Ethnomethodological Perspective on Intelligence on Iraq's Aluminium Tubes......Page 79
Part II: Governance......Page 100
4 Global Governance and Twenty-first Century Technology......Page 102
5 The Limits of Security Governance: Technology, Law, and War......Page 124
6 Technology and the Problem of Civilian Casualties in War......Page 146
Part III: In Focus......Page 166
7 Preventing the Future Military Misuse of Neuroscience......Page 168
8 Space Weapons: Technological Folly?......Page 184
9 Understanding the Broader Context......Page 206
B......Page 225
C......Page 226
E......Page 227
H......Page 228
K......Page 229
M......Page 230
P......Page 231
S......Page 232
T......Page 234
U......Page 235
Z......Page 236