The Gamble of War: Is It Possible to Justify Preventive War?

A. Colonomos

ISBN 10: 1137018941 / ISBN 13: 9781137018946

Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2013, 2013

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 277 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gamble of War: Is It Possible to Justify Preventive War?
• Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137018941
• ISBN 13: 9781137018946
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 218W x 142H x 23D millimeters 218 millimeters width by 142 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 454 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Ariel Colonomos is a senior research fellow at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Recearch) in Paris and a research professor at Sciences Po.