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Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Chemical Weapons TabooCondition: NewISBN-10: 0801473942EAN: 9780801473944ISBN: 9780801473944Publisher: Cornell University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/03/2007Description: Richard M. Price asks why, among all the ominous technologies of weaponry throughout the history of warfare, chemical weapons carry a special moral stigma. Something more seems to be at work than the predictable resistance people have expressed to any new weaponry, from the crossbow to nuclear bombs. Perceptions of chemical warfare as particularly abhorrent have been successfully institutionalized in international proscriptions and, Price suggests, understanding the sources of this success might shed light on other efforts at arms control. To explore the origins and meaning of the chemical weapons taboo, Price presents a series of case studies from World War I through the Gulf War of 1990–1991. He traces the moral arguments against gas warfare from the Hague Conferences at the turn of the century through negotiations for the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. From the Italian invasion of Ethiopia to the war between Iran and Iraq, chemical weapons have been condemned as the "poor man's bomb." Drawing upon insights from Michel Foucault to explain the role of moral norms in an international arena rarely sensitive to such pressures, he focuses on the construction of and mutations in the refusal to condone chemical weapons.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 14mmAuthor: Richard M. PriceGenre: Law & PoliticsItem Weight: 454gTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2007 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: The Chemical Weapons Taboo

Title: The Chemical Weapons Taboo

ISBN-10: 0801473942

EAN: 9780801473944

ISBN: 9780801473944

Release Date: 05/03/2007

Release Year: 2007

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Book Title: Chemical Weapons Taboo

Number of Pages: 256 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Item Height: 0.7 in

Topic: International Relations / Arms Control, Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare, Security (National & International)

Publication Year: 2007

Genre: Political Science, History

Item Weight: 16 Oz

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Richard M. Price

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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