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Technology is championed as the solution to modern security problems, but also blamed as their cause. This book assesses the way in which these two views collide in the debate over ballistic missile defence: a complex, costly and controversial system intended to defend the United States from nuclear missile attacks. Columba Peoples shows how, in the face of strong scientific and strategic critique, advocates of missile defence seek to justify its development by reference to broader culturally embedded perceptions of the promises and perils of technological development. Unpacking the assumptions behind the justification of missile defence initiatives, both past and present, this book illustrates how common-sense understandings of technology are combined and used to legitimate this controversial and costly defence programme. In doing so it engages fundamental debates over understandings of technological development, human agency and the relationship between technology and security.

International relations. Foreign policy --- Polemology --- Ballistic missile defenses --- Strategic culture --- Défense antimissile --- Culture stratégique --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- Culture stratégiquePolitical aspects --- 876 Veiligheidspolitiek --- Culture --- Military policy --- National security --- Defenses, Ballistic missile --- Air defenses --- Défense antimissile --- Culture stratégique --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Ballistic missile defenses. --- Political aspects.

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National security --- Security, International --- Collective security --- International security --- International relations --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- National security policy --- NSP (National security policy) --- Security policy, National --- Economic policy --- Military policy --- Government policy --- Polemology

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This text provides an analysis of the complex combinations of political and technological understandings entailed in what it terms as 'planetary crisis management'. Arguing that the emergence, scope and scale of planetary insecurity and crisis management challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries of the study of International Relations and security, the book adopts an interdisciplinary outlook. It integtrates ideas and approaches from across political theory and anthropology (on conceptions of crisis) including climate science and the wider study of environment and ecology in the 'Anthropocene' (on planetary insecurities and ideas of geoengineering); science and technology studies (on the 'technopolitics' of crisis management and the 'sociotechnical imagination' of planetary futures); and critical security studies (on critical approaches to the international and to security).

Security, International --- Crisis management --- Environment and Ecology. --- The environment. --- Environmental aspects. --- Political aspects.