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The Gamble of WarA Just War?

The Gamble of War: A Just War? [The use of force develops in tandem with the ideas that announce it, legitimate it, accompany it, or sustain it. In this regard, the just war tradition is both a mirror to, and a compass for, “how Westerners wage war” or how—some of them—think it should or should not be waged. It is also the gauge of deep contradictions when soldiers and politicians attempt to justify it—precisely as preventive action. It is not at all my intention here to go back over a history of ideas with the aim of tracing the encyclopedic evolution of the notion of prevention. On the contrary, the aim is to identify certain questions deliberately chosen from the reading of the principal texts, thereby revealing some of the contemporary orientations and their contradictions and affording greater insight into the application of the ideas governing them.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Gamble of WarA Just War?

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-43727-6
Pages
53 –75
DOI
10.1057/9781137018953_3
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Abstract

[The use of force develops in tandem with the ideas that announce it, legitimate it, accompany it, or sustain it. In this regard, the just war tradition is both a mirror to, and a compass for, “how Westerners wage war” or how—some of them—think it should or should not be waged. It is also the gauge of deep contradictions when soldiers and politicians attempt to justify it—precisely as preventive action. It is not at all my intention here to go back over a history of ideas with the aim of tracing the encyclopedic evolution of the notion of prevention. On the contrary, the aim is to identify certain questions deliberately chosen from the reading of the principal texts, thereby revealing some of the contemporary orientations and their contradictions and affording greater insight into the application of the ideas governing them.]

Published: Nov 9, 2015

Keywords: Legal Scholar; Anticipatory Action; Offensive Realism; Preemptive Strike; Preventive Strike

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