The Gamble of War [electronic resource] : Is It Possible to Justify Preventive War? /
Colonomos, A.author.
This book analyzes the justification of preventive war in contemporary asymmetrical international relations. It focuses on the most crucial aspect of prevention: uncertainty. 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.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Graphs, and Tables                                          ; Acknowledgments                      ; Introduction: New Departures in the Military Arena                                                         ; Part 1 On the Forms of Preventive War                                            ; One Narrating, Explaining, Defining Preventive War                                                         ; Two A Just War?                      ; Part 2 Waging War                        ; Three On Temperance
Four Precision as Justification                                      Five Targeted Killings: Manhunts                                       ; Part 3 Moral Luck                        ; Six Good or Bad Fortune                              ; Seven Possible Worlds                            ; Conclusion: The Gamble on the Best of All Worlds                                                       ; Notes            ; Name Index                 ; Thematic Index
Includes indexes.
This book analyzes the justification of preventive war in contemporary asymmetrical international relations. It focuses on the most crucial aspect of prevention: uncertainty. 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.
International relations.
Peace.
Politics and war.
Political science.
Globalization.
World politics.
International Relations.
Conflict Studies.
Military and Defence Studies.
Political Science.
Globalization.
Political History.