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

By Ariel Colonomos

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137018941
• ISBN13: 9781137018946
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"