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Part of the book series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy (SPIRP)
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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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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On the Forms of Preventive War
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Front Matter
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Waging War
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Front Matter
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Moral Luck
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
Reviews
"As Ariel Colonomos shows in this penetrating book, the fog of war is never thicker than when states contemplate preventive force. Mixing astute commentary on history, ethics, political theory and current events, he offers very wise counsel to political leaders contemplating whether to attack before (they think) they will be attacked."
-Michael Doyle, author of Striking First and Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs, the Department of Political Science, and the Law School, Columbia University
"A brilliant exploration of the vexatious necessity of justifying preventive war when the availability of weapons of mass destruction excludes waiting for an attack to materialize but when uncertainty about the future excludes a 'proportional' response to an attack whose extent is unknown because it has not yet occurred." - Stephen Holmes, Professor of Law and Political Science, New York University
About the author
Ariel Colonomos is a senior research fellow at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Recearch) in Paris and a research professor at Sciences Po.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Gamble of War
Book Subtitle: Is It Possible to Justify Preventive War?
Authors: Ariel Colonomos
Series Title: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137018953
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Ariel Colonomos and Éditions Denoël 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-01894-6Published: 06 February 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43727-6Published: 06 February 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01895-3Published: 05 February 2013
Series ISSN: 2945-607X
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6088
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 277
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations, Conflict Studies, Military and Defence Studies, Political Science, Globalization, Political History