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.

Autorentext
Ariel Colonomos is a senior research fellow at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Recearch) in Paris and a research professor at Sciences Po.

Inhalt
Introduction: New Departures in the Military Arena PART I: ON THE FORMS OF PREVENTIVE WAR Narrating, Explaining, Defining Preventive War A Just War? PART II: WAGING WAR On Temperance Precision as Justification Targeted Killings: Manhunts PART III: MORAL LUCK Good or Bad Fortune Possible Worlds Conclusion: The Gamble on the Best of All Worlds