Overview
This book proposes fresh approaches and concrete proposals to overcome one of the most intractable security problems of the twenty-first century. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Full Product Details
Author: Susan Wright
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 14.90cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.585kg
ISBN: 9780742524699
ISBN 10: 0742524698
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 02 January 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Never has there been a greater need for this book, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the BW problem and options for addressing it by noted experts from around the world. -- Michael Klare, director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies This extremely useful and authoritative volume provides a coherent account of the history of biological weapons programs and the attempts to control them. * Foreign Affairs * Wright argues, controversially, that powerful Western states, the U.S. in particular, are undermining the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)-not the weaker non-Western states as commonly believed. Highly recommended. * CHOICE * A timely and important volume that challenges the narrow, conventional understandings of the threat of biological warfare as emanating solely from 'rogue states' and terrorists. Particularly innovative are Wright's analyses drawing connections between the biotechnology industry, economic development in the Third World, and the prospects for implementing a regime prohibiting biological warfare. -- Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University, editor of Italy from Crisis to Crisis: Political Economy, Security, and Society in the 21st Century
Never has there been a greater need for this book, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the BW problem and options for addressing it by noted experts from around the world. -- Michael Klare, director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies This extremely useful and authoritative volume provides a coherent account of the history of biological weapons programs and the attempts to control them. Foreign Affairs Wright argues, controversially, that powerful Western states, the U.S. in particular, are undermining the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)-not the weaker non-Western states as commonly believed. Highly recommended. CHOICE A timely and important volume that challenges the narrow, conventional understandings of the threat of biological warfare as emanating solely from 'rogue states' and terrorists. Particularly innovative are Wright's analyses drawing connections between the biotechnology industry, economic development in the Third World, and the prospects for implementing a regime prohibiting biological warfare. -- Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University
Never has there been a greater need for this book, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the BW problem and options for addressing it by noted experts from around the world.
Author Information
Susan Wright, a historian of science at the University of Michigan, is research scientist in the University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender.
