Langbeschreibung
This book examines the ethical and intellectual issues and political dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part 1. This Happening World 1. The Chains that Bind? 2. Striving for Order 3. The Word and the World Part 2 1. The Technologies of Conflict and the Conflicts about Technology 2. Weapons: What are they? 3. Weapons: What are they for? 4. Weapons: What do they do? Part 3. Prohibiting Weapons 1. Predicaments with Prohibitions 2. Fractured Worlds: The Case of Cluster Bombs 3. Dealing with Unfinished Business Part 4. Future Agendas 1. Troubles with Humanitarian Prohibitions