NDLI: Chemical and Biological Weapons in the ‘New Wars’

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Author	Ilchmann, Kai Revill, James
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The strategic use of disease and poison in warfare has been subject to a longstanding and cross-cultural taboo that condemns the hostile exploitation of poisons and disease as the act of a pariah. In short, biological and chemical weapons are simply not fair game. The normative opprobrium is, however, not fixed, but context dependent and, as a social phenomenon, remains subject to erosion by social (or more specifically, antisocial) actors. The cross cultural understanding that fighting with poisons and disease is reprehensible, that they are taboo, is codified through a web of interconnected measures, principal amongst these are the 1925 Geneva Protocol; the Biological Weapons Convention; and the Chemical Weapons Convention. Whilst these treaties have weathered the storm of international events reasonably well, their continued health is premised on their being ‘tended to’ in the face of contextual changes, particularly facing changes in science and technology, as well as the changed nature and character of conflict. This article looks at the potential for normative erosion of the norm against chemical and biological weapons in the face of these contextual changes and the creeping legitimization of chemical and biological weapons.
Starting Page	753
Ending Page	767
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13533452
Journal	Science and Engineering Ethics
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	14715546
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-10-17
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Biological and chemical weapons Taboo New wars BWC CWC Norms Ethics Philosophy of Science Engineering Biomedical Engineering Medicine/Public Health Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects Health (social science) Management of Technology and Innovation Health Policy

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