Resources This book is available in Oxford Scholarship Online - view abstracts and keywords at book and chapter level.
Related Categories
|
|
|
Preemption
Military Action and Moral Justification
Edited by Henry Shue and David Rodin
288 pages
|
234x156mm
978-0-19-956599-3
|
Paperback
|
05 November 2009
|
|
|
|
|
- Research from leading figures in the ethics, history, & politics of war
- Lively debate with contending positions vigorously defended
The dramatic declaration by U.S. 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 of all-new chapters 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.
Readership: Scholars and students of international relations, moral philosophy, political theory, and military history
|
|
|
Edited by Henry Shue, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, Oxford, and David Rodin, Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University Contributors:
Henry Shue is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford
David Rodin is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Changing Character of War Programme, University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public
Ethics, the Australian National University.
Hew Strachan is Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University, Director of the Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War, and a Fellow of All Souls College.
Marc Trachtenberg is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Suzanne Uniacke is Reader in Applied Ethics at the University of Hull. Before moving to the United Kingdom in 2001 she taught philosophy in Australia.
Neta C. Crawford is Professor of Political Science at Boston University.
Allen Buchanan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
David Luban is University Professor at the Georgetown
University Law Center.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Professor of Philosophy and Hardy Professor of Legal Studies at Dartmouth College.
|
|
|
"this volume provides essential interdisciplinary consideration of the whole range of questions raised by the novel threats and challenges posed to the international system by nonstate actors bent on mass attacks and/or threatening strikes of weapons of mass destruction. Its combination of historical perspective and philosophical theory, and its examination of the international system and of various policy options, makes it a deeply informed contribution to a very important contemporary debate." - Martin Cook, Ethics & International Affairs
|
|
|
Henry Shue and David Rodin: Introduction
1: Hew Strachan: Preemption and Prevention in Historical Perspective
2: Marc Trachtenberg: Preventive War and U.S. Foreign Policy
3: Suzanne Uniacke: On Getting One's Retaliation in First
4: Neta C. Crawford: The False Promise of Collective Security Through Preventive War
5: Allen Buchanan: Justifying Preventive War
6: David Rodin: The Problem with Prevention
7: David Luban: Preventive War and Human Rights
8: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: Preventive War - What Is It Good For?
9: Henry Shue: What Would A Justified Preventive Military Attack Look Like?
|
|
|
|
Recently Viewed
|
|
|
Andrew Goudie, Heather Viles
£7.99
|
|
|
|
|
Bram Stoker, Roger Luckhurst
£5.99
|
|
|
|
|
Patterns, Processes, and Applications
Jari Niemelä, Jürgen H. Breuste...
£80.00
|
|
|
|
|
The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
|
|
