Technology and Security Governing Threats in the New Millennium [Hardcover]

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.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.Durodi?BRIAN BALMER Reader in Science Policy Studies, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, UKCAROLE BOUDEAU School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, UKSTUART CROFT Professor of International Security, Warwick University, UKMALCOLM DANDO Professor of International Security, University of Bradford, UKBILL DURODI? Senior Lecturer in Risk and Corporate Security, Cranfield University, UKTHEO FARRELL Professor of War in the Modern World, Department of War Studies, King's College London, UKMARK HILBORNE Assistant Head of Air Power Studies, King's College London Royal Air Force College, UKANDREW JAMES Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Policy and Management, Manchester Business School, UKJOHN STONE Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London, UKJIM WHITMAN Senior Lecturer, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University, UK