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The Gamble of War

Is It Possible to Justify Preventive War?
By:A. Colonomos
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137018946
eText ISBN:9781137018953
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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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.