The Gamble of War

Download or read book The Gamble of War written by A. Colonomos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.