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Informationen zum Autor David A. Koplow is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Director of the Center for Applied Legal Studies, in which students represent refugees who seek political asylum in the United States due to persecution on account of race, religion and political opinion in their homelands. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1978, he served the U.S. government in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1978-81, as Attorney-Adviser and as Special Assistant to the Director) and in the Department of Defense (1997-99, as Deputy General Counsel for International Affairs). He also was the senior legal specialist for top Pentagon leadership on the full array of international legal issues, including the use of military force in the Persian Gulf and in Kosovo, the negotiation and implementation of treaties, the law of the sea, the programs of military cooperation and assistance, and the law of outer space. He has published many articles in law journals dealing with treaties and U.S. constitutional law and published books on national security and arms control policy. Klappentext This book examines the rapidly evolving field of non-lethal weapons - systems that enable police and military officers to temporarily disable, incapacitate or deter opponents without causing death or permanent injury. Some types of non-lethal weapons are already familiar while others are just now finding a place in national arsenals. Most dramatically, a host of novel non-lethal weapons is about to cascade out of laboratories, affording soldiers and law enforcement personnel dazzling new capabilities to defeat enemies without causing excessive collateral damage. But with these inherent powers come new dangers. Zusammenfassung Military and law enforcement authorities have found themselves constrained by inadequate weaponry. An emerging category of 'non-lethal weapons' carries promise for resolving this dilemma! proffering new capabilities for disabling opponents without inflicting death or permanent injury. This book explores the new powers and inherent dangers of non-lethal weapons. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The world of non-lethal weapons; 3. The law of non-lethal weapons; 4. The FBI and the Davidians at Waco in 1993; 5. The United Nations and the Rwandan genocide in 1994; 6. The Peruvians and Tupac Amaru in Lima in 1996-97; 7. The Russians and the Chechens in Moscow in 2002; 8. The British and the Iraqis in Basra in 2003; 9. Cautionary considerations; 10. Recommendations and conclusions....
