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Choice of War
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Author_Albert L. Weeks
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Conflict and Wars
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Military History
Product details
- ISBN 9780275991111
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2009
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A longtime scholar of the Cold War deftly weaves together the tradition of "just war" and an examination of current events to show how the time-honored concepts of jus ad bellum (justice of war) and jus in bello (justice in war) apply to the U.S. military involvement in Iraq.
This timely analysis of President George W. Bush's foreign policy deals with the cornerstone of his administrations—the "war on terror"—as implemented in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and at Abu Ghraib prison. The Choice of War: The Iraq War and the "Just War" Tradition discusses NSS 2002, the national security statement that became the blueprint for the Bush Doctrine. It explains the differences and similarities between preventive and pre-emptive war and explores the administration's justification of the necessity of the March 2003 invasion. Finally, it analyzes the conduct of the war, the occupation, and the post-occupation phases of the conflict.
In evaluating the Bush Doctrine, both as declared strategy and as implemented, Albert L. Weeks asks whether going it virtually alone in the global struggle against 21st-century terrorism should be incorporated permanently into American political and military policy. Answering no, he suggests an alternative to a doctrine that has isolated the United States and left the world divided.
ALBERT L. WEEKS, formerly Professor of International Affairs at New York University (1961-1989), teaches politics and foreign policy at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. A well-respected Sovietologist, he is the author of nine books, including Stalin's Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939-1941 (2003) and Russia's Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the USSR in World War II (2004).
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