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The gamble of war : is it possible to justify preventive war? / Ariel Colonomos ; translated by Chris Turner.
- Title
- The gamble of war : is it possible to justify preventive war? / Ariel Colonomos ; translated by Chris Turner.
- Author
- Colonomos, Ariel.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2013.
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- Additional Authors
- Turner, Chris.
- Description
- x, 277 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- With the new millennium, prevention has become a popular doctrine in international politics. One of its most noticeable features is that democracies become inclined to strike first. In the US, it has served as the banner of the neo₆conservative movement but it also gathered support from some liberals. It has also inspired several Israeli interventions. Does the preventive use of force meet the normative criteria that prevail or should prevail in a democratic system? Or does it endanger the legal and ethical traditions that characterize the history of Western military ethics? This book analyzes the justification of preventive war in contemporary asymmetrical international relations. It focuses on the most crucial aspect of prevention: uncertainty. Luck plays a significant role in these hazardous preventive wars, with unforeseen and sometimes unforeseeable consequences. This book bridges the explanatory analysis of uncertainty in preventive war making (using field work and data) with a normative account of prevention. It builds a new framework where the role of luck -- whether military, political, moral, or normative -- is a corrective to the traditional approaches of the Just War tradition.
- Series Statement
- Sciences Po series in international relations and political economy
- Uniform Title
- Pari de la guerre. English
- Alternative Title
- Pari de la guerre.
- Subject
- Note
- "First published in French as Le pari de la guerre. Guerre preventive, guerre juste? by Ariel Colonomos, (c) by Editions Denoel, 2009"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 On the Forms of Preventive War -- One.Narrating, Explaining, Defining Preventive War -- Two.A Just War? -- pt. 2 Waging War -- Three.On Temperance -- Four.Precision as Justification -- Five.Targeted Killings: Manhunts -- pt. 3 Moral Luck -- Six.Good or Bad Fortune -- Seven.Possible Worlds.
- ISBN
- 9781137018946 (alk. paper)
- 1137018941 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012032270
- OCLC
- 783144371
- SCSB-12728090
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library