Eve of Destruction
Subtitle: The Coming Age of Preventive War
By: Thomas M. Nichols.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780812240665
Subjects: Preemptive attack (Military science); International relations; Security, International; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-
Description: Thomas M. Nichols uses historical analysis as well as interviews with defense officials from around the world to trace the anticipatory use of violence from the early 1990s - when the international community was faced with a series of humanitarian crises in Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo - to today's current and potential actions against rogue states and terrorists. He makes a case for a bold reform of U.S. foreign policy, and of the United Nations Security Council itself, in order to avert outright anarchy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-168) and index.