Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
|
Buy Now
From Hitler's Germany to Saddam's Iraq - The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,022
Discovery Miles 10 220
|
|
From Hitler's Germany to Saddam's Iraq - The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
This book boldly challenges conventional wisdom about the value of
preventive war. Beginning with the rise of German power and the
French and British response to the Rhineland crisis leading to
World War II, Scott Silverstone overturns the common impulse to
point an accusing finger at British leadership for its alleged
naivete, willful blindness, or outright cowardice. Arguing against
the belief that Britain could have contained Germany and avoided
war if it had used force when Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland,
the author uses this dramatic event to wrestle with a general
strategic problem that has broad relevance for our current foreign
policy dilemmas. Silverstone argues that the Rhineland crisis is a
critical case for studying a central dynamic of world history-power
shifts among states-and the preventive war temptation that power
shifts frequently produce. There has been surging interest in the
idea of preventive war, an interest stimulated by the Bush
administration's articulation of the "preemption doctrine" in 2002
and the disastrous invasion of Iraq in 2003, and by frustration
over the difficulty of preventing the proliferation of nuclear
weapons by such states as North Korea and Iran. Clarifying the way
we think about preventive war, the author analyzes the enduring
strategic flaws in preventive war that must inform how political
leaders and the public think about this option as a means of
dealing with shifting threats in the modern world. Offering a
radically conservative argument for when to wage war, this
persuasive book will be essential reading for policy makers and
concerned citizens alike.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.