Can the use of force first against a less-than-imminent threat be both morally acceptable and consistent with American values? In this timely book Mark Totten offers the first in-depth, historical examination of the use of preemptive and preventive force through the lens of the just war tradition.
Although critical of the American incursion into Iraq as a so-called "preemptive war," Totten argues that the new terrorist threat nonetheless demands careful consideration of when the first use of force is legitimate. The moral tradition, he concludes, provides a principled way forward that reconciles American values and the demands of security.
- ISBN10 0300124481
- ISBN13 9780300124484
- Publish Date 21 September 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780300124484