A01=Mark Totten
Author_Mark Totten
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Product details
- ISBN 9780300124484
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Sep 2010
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 tradition, he concludes, provides a principled way forward that reconciles American values and the demands of security.
Mark Totten is assistant professor of law, Michigan State University College of Law. He lives in Kalamazoo, MI.
