Disarming Intervention: A Critical History of Non-Lethality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780774828543)

Non-lethal weapons take many forms - from rubber bullets to electroshock and long-range acoustic devices - which their proponents argue are ethical, legal, and humane. Social scientists, historians, legal scholars, and activists have long challenged the use of non-lethal weapons in policing and war. Until now, little scholarly attention has been paid to the social, historical, and legal relations that animate the concept of non-lethality, nor is there a comprehensive account of how the concept has achieved social and political acceptance. Disarming Intervention tells the story of how the concept of non-lethality emerged in a series of nineteeth-century legal codes that governed the conduct of international hostilities, and how it continued to legitimate US-led armed conflicts as ethical, legal, and humane throughout the twentieth century.

Author: Seantel Anaïs
ISBN-10: 0774828544
ISBN-13: 9780774828543
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2015
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d