Insecurity and Emerging Biotechnology - Governing Misuse Potential

This book examines how emergent trends in innovation and its governance are raising new and old questions about how to control technology. It develops a new framework for understanding how emergent fields of science and technology emerge as security concerns; and the key challenges these fields pose from a global security perspective. The study focuses on the politics which have surrounded the emergent field of Synthetic Biology, a field which has become emblematic of both the potentials and limits of more preemptive approaches to governance. This highly accessible work will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners working on the ethical responsibilities of innovators and the assessment of emergent technology as well as the global governance of weapons.  

List of contents

1. Chapter 1 Introduction.- 2. Chapter 2 The Three Paradoxes of Innovation Security.- 3. Chapter 3 Synthetic Biology as a techno-scientific field of security concern.- 4. Chapter 4 Synthetic Biology and the dilemmas of innovation.- 5. Chapter 5 Synthetic Biology and the dilemmas of innovation governance.- 6. Chapter 6 Synthetic Biology and the dilemmas of insecurity.- 7. Chapter 7 Conclusion

About the author

Brett Edwards is Lecturer in Security and Public Policy in the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath, UK.

Summary

This book examines how emergent trends in innovation and its governance are raising new and old questions about how to control technology. It develops a new framework for understanding how emergent fields of science and technology emerge as security concerns; and the key challenges these fields pose from a global security perspective. The study focuses on the politics which have surrounded the emergent field of Synthetic Biology, a field which has become emblematic of both the potentials and limits of more preemptive approaches to governance. This highly accessible work will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners working on the ethical responsibilities of innovators and the assessment of emergent technology as well as the global governance of weapons.  

Product details

• Authors: Brett Edwards
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030021870
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3002187-0
• No. of pages: 97
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 12 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 240 g
• Illustrations: IX, 97 p. 1 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Globalisierung, Biotechnologie, C, Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein, Krieg und Verteidigung, Sociology, Globalization, Public Health, biotechnology, Warfare & defence, Political Science and International Studies, Terrorism, Nanotechnology, International Security Studies, Security, International, Politics and war, Military and Defence Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Technology—Sociological aspects, Ethics of Technology, Military studies, science and tech, synthetic international security, biochemical warfare, international relations and biotechnology