TY - BOOK AU - TRACHTENBERG Marc TI - Preventive war and U.S.foreign policy PY - 2007/// KW - UNITED STATES KW - FOREIGN POLICY N2 - This article examines the claim that the Bush strategy of dealing with developing threats 'preemptively' marked a total break with American tradition. The administration defended its new policy but it did not really take issue with the basic historical claim: that the Bush policy was radically different from the sort of policy the country had pursued in the past ER -