Technology and Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Brian Rappert, Stuart Croft

      Pages 1-21

3. Technology and Disciplinary Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Science and Technology Policy and International Security

      • Andrew D. James

      Pages 25-44

   3. Rethinking ‘Secrecy’ and ‘Disclosure’: What Science and Technology Studies Can Offer Attempts to Govern WMD Threats

      • Brian Rappert, Brian Balmer

      Pages 45-65

   4. Producing Threat Assessments: An Ethnomethodological Perspective on Intelligence on Iraq’s Aluminium Tubes

      • Carole Boudeau

      Pages 66-86

4. Governance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Global Governance and Twenty-first Century Technology

      • Jim Whitman

      Pages 89-110

   3. The Limits of Security Governance: Technology, Law, and War

      • Theo Farrell

      Pages 111-132

   4. Technology and the Problem of Civilian Casualties in War

      • John Stone

      Pages 133-151

5. In Focus

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Preventing the Future Military Misuse of Neuroscience

      • Malcolm Dando

      Pages 155-170

   3. Space Weapons: Technological Folly?

      • Mark Hilborne

      Pages 171-192

   4. Understanding the Broader Context

      • Bill Durodié

      Pages 193-211

6. Back Matter

   Pages 212-223

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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.

• global governance
• Governance
• Policy
• research
• science
• technology

• University of Exeter, UK

  Brian Rappert

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

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