Disarming Intervention: A Critical History of Non-Lethality

By Seantel Anais

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774828544
• ISBN13: 9780774828543
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"