Technology and Security: Governing Threats in the New Millennium

by Brian Rappert

Overview

This book 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230019706
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/11/2007
Series:	New Security Challenges
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	223
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

BRIAN BALMER Reader in Science Policy Studies, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, UK CAROLE BOUDEAU School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, UK STUART CROFT Professor of International Security, Warwick University, UK MALCOLM DANDO Professor of International Security, University of Bradford, UK BILL DURODIÉ Senior Lecturer in Risk and Corporate Security, Cranfield University, UK THEO FARRELL Professor of War in the Modern World, Department of War Studies, King's College London, UK MARK HILBORNE Assistant Head of Air Power Studies, King's College London Royal Air Force College, UK ANDREW JAMES Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Policy and Management, Manchester Business School, UK JOHN STONE Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London, UK JIM WHITMAN Senior Lecturer, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction; B.Rappert & S.Croft PART I: TECHNOLOGY AND DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES Science & Technology Policy and International Security; A.James Rethinking "Secrecy" and "Disclosure"; B.Rappert & B.Balmer Producing Threat Assessments; C.Boudeau PART II: GOVERNANCE Global Governance and Twenty-First Century Technology; J.Whitman The Limits of Security Governance: Technology, Law and War; T.Farrell Technology and the Problem of Civilian Casualties in War; J.Stone PART III: IN FOCUS Preventing the Future Military Misuse of Neuroscience; M.Dando Space Weapons: Technological Folly?; M.Hilborne Understanding the Broader Context; B.Durodié