Preemption military action and moral justification

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Shue, Henry (HerausgeberIn), Rodin, David (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 2010
Ausgabe:1. publ. as paperback
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Zusammenfassung: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 of the most persuasive proponents of preemptive attack or preventive war, who then respond to these challenges and modify or extend their justifications ... (Quelle: Text Verlagseinband / Verlag)
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Beschreibung:VII, 267 S.
ISBN:0199565996
0-19-956599-6
9780199565993
978-0-19-956599-3