Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification

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Oxford University Press (2007)
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Is a nation ever justified in attacking before it has been attacked? If so, under precisely what conditions? This volume of new, specially commissioned chapters provides the most definitive assessment to date of the justifiability of preemptive or preventive military action.

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Chapters

Justifying Preventive War.Allen Buchanan
The False Promise of Collective Security Through Preventive War.Neta C. Crawford
Preventive War and Human Rights.David Luban
The Problem with Prevention.David Rodin
What Would A Justified Preventive Military Attack Look Like?Henry Shue
Preventive War - What Is It Good For?Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Preemption and Prevention in Historical Perspective.Hew Strachan
Preventive War and U.S. Foreign Policy.Marc Trachtenberg
On Getting One's Retaliation in First.Suzanne Uniacke

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