The dramatic declaration by President George W. Bush that, in light
of the attacks on 9/11, the United States would henceforth be
engaging in "preemption" against such enemies as terrorists armed
with weapons of mass destruction forced a wide-open debate about
justifiable uses of military force. Opponents saw the declaration
as a direct challenge to the consensus, which has formed since the
ratification of the Charter of the United Nations, that armed force
may be used only in defense. Supporters responded that in an age of
terrorism defense could only mean "preemption." This volume
provides the historical, legal, political, and philosophical
perspective necessary to intelligent participation in the on-going
debate, which is likely to last long beyond the war in Iraq.
Thorough defenses and critiques of the Bush doctrine are provided
by the most authoritative writers on the subject from both sides of
the Atlantic.
Is a nation ever justified in attacking before it has been
attacked? If so, under precisely what conditions? Does the
possibility of terrorists with weapons of mass destruction force us
to change our traditional views about what counts as defense? This
book provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of the
justifiability of preemptive or preventive military action. Its
engaging debate, accompanied by an analytic Introduction, focuses
probing criticism against the most persuasive proponents of
preemptive attack or preventive war, who then respond to these
challenges and modify or extend their justifications.
Authors of recent pivotal analyses, including historian Marc
Trachtenberg, international relations professor Neta Crawford, law
professor David Luban, and political philosopher Allen Buchanan,
are confronted by other authoritative writers on the nature and
justification of war more broadly, including historian Hew
Strachan, international normative theorist Henry Shue, and
philosophers David Rodin, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and Suzanne
Uniacke. The resulting lively and many-sided exchanges shed
historical, legal, political, and philosophical light on a key
policy question of our time. Going beyond the simple dichotomies of
popular discussion the authors reflect on the nature of all
warfare, the arguments for and against it, and the possibilities
for the moral to constrain the military and the political in the
face of grave threat.
This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the
Changing Character of War.
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