Preemption : a knife that cuts both ways / Alan M Dershowitz

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York: W W Norton, 2006ISBN:
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Subject(s): Summary: In countering terrorism and other serious threats states are increasingly using preventive and preemptive measures. This book looks at the history of preventive measures in the Anglo American legal systems; at preventive war; counterterrorism, at the Bush Doctrine on the preemptive attack on Iraq, and asks whether such an attack on Iran's nuclear programme would be justified. Concludes with a discussion of the jurisprudence of prevention and preemption.
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In countering terrorism and other serious threats states are increasingly using preventive and preemptive measures. This book looks at the history of preventive measures in the Anglo American legal systems; at preventive war; counterterrorism, at the Bush Doctrine on the preemptive attack on Iraq, and asks whether such an attack on Iran's nuclear programme would be justified. Concludes with a discussion of the jurisprudence of prevention and preemption.

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