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First Strike: America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition

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First Strike: America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition - Totten, Mark, Professor
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Can the use of force first against a less-than-imminent threat be both morally acceptable and consistent with American values? In this timely book Mark Totten offers the first in-depth, historical examination of the use of preemptive and preventive force through the lens of the just war tradition. Although critical of the American incursion into Iraq as a so-called "preemptive war," Totten argues that the new terrorist threat nonetheless demands careful consideration of when the first use of force is legitimate. The moral ...

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First Strike: America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition 2010, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300124484

Hardcover