"A pre-emptive strike against a potentially belligerent nation state is a legitimate form of self-defence." Is this a sound policy for the future?
Date Submitted: 06/29/2004 01:11:34
Category: / Law & Government / Military
Length: 10 pages (2640 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Military
Length: 10 pages (2640 words)
In articulating what some have described as the 'most far-reaching shift in American foreign policy for more than fifty years,' President George Bush summed up the US perception of the current strategic situation in the post 9-11 world,
"We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants, who solemnly sign non-proliferation treaties and then systematically break them. If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long. [In defending …
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…Law and Policy 483, 513 (1999)
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W.Slocombe, 'Force, Pre-emption and Legitimacy' in Survival Vol 45, no.1, Spring 2003
P.Towell, 'Pre-Emptive Policy Has Congress Fretting Over Loss of Influence' in CQ Weekly June 15 2002
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