Overview
This text looks at the problem of biological warfare and the challenge of achieving biological disarmament. Approaches to this issue have been overwhelmingly dominated by a western and particularly US perspective that reducess the question to the spread of these weapons among non-western countries and non-state sectors. Since the september 11th terrorist attacks, this position has hardened, giving rise to a strongly polarized discourse that embraces nuclear weapons as the ultimate key to security. In view of this increasing polarization and the reliance of the US on military power as the basis for security, it is vital to reassess western policies on biological warfare and to seek alternatives that support international cooperation in reaffirming the the norm of biological disarmament. This volume brings together authors with a broad diversity of geographical and professional backgrounds to take up this challenge. The book emphasises placing post-Cold War concerns about biological warfare in context. Highlighting the importance of understanding often-marginalized non-western perspectives, this text proposes approaches to overcome one of the most intractable security problems of the 21st century.
Full Product Details
Author: Susan Wright
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 23.80cm
Weight: 0.712kg
ISBN: 9780742524682
ISBN 10: 074252468
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 09 October 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: Hardback
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
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.
