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Read [Alan M. Dershowitz Book] * Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways (Issues of Our Time (Norton Paperback)) Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways (Issues of Our Time (Norton Paperback)) "We Don't Want to Go There" according to Izaak VanGaalen. In this recently published book, Harvard law professor and lawyer Alan Dershowitz raises some questions about our fundamental assumptions about preventing harmful behavior from individuals and states. He asserts that in the age of terror traditional assumptions no longer suffice and that new tools of jurisprudence are needed to respond to a new kind of threat.The traditional assumption has been to rely . Dershowitz finally wrote his magnu
| Title | : | Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways (Issues of Our Time (Norton Paperback)) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.91 (561 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393329348 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
"We Don't Want to Go There" according to Izaak VanGaalen. In this recently published book, Harvard law professor and lawyer Alan Dershowitz raises some questions about our fundamental assumptions about preventing harmful behavior from individuals and states. He asserts that in the age of terror traditional assumptions no longer suffice and that new tools of jurisprudence are needed to respond to a new kind of threat.The traditional assumption has been to rely . Dershowitz finally wrote his magnum opus This book is probably the most important one Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz has ever written. In "Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Way," Dershowitz analysis one of the most crucial, yet most unexplored paradigm shifts of our time: the shift from deterrence to preemption - a paradigm shift that greatly influences both our domestic and foreign policy, as the White House reaffirmed just last week . Upstater said Terrific Read. Not only is this the first serious attempt to outline how we should think about preemptive and preventive military action, but it's a fascinating historical and philosophical examination of the entire field of preemptive state action. Dershowitz makes good use of his legal background in analogizing ways in which the criminal justice system uses and misuses preemptive profiling, detention, and civil comm
“A path-breaking must-read for government leaders, strategists, and all concerned Americans.”General Wesley K. In Preemption, which Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Clark In Preemption one of our nation’s foremost legal scholars puts forward a controversial new theory on crime and punishment in the postmodern world. Using the American government’s 2003 invasion of Iraq as a starting point, Alan M. Court of Appeals calls “lucid, sober, courageous, and historically informed,” Dershowitz has brought together all of his diverse and considerable talents and experiences to confront the idea of preemptive action as it applies to some of our most urgent political and moral dilemmas.. Dershowitz tracks our society’s increasing reliance on preemptive action
From Publishers Weekly Children of deposed kings, sovereign nation states, terrorist organizations, alleged witches-all have been targets, at some point in history, of preemptive action. . Whether such action was justified whether the results were as intended and whether the political fallout was tolerable are the factors that complicate this alluring concept, as explored by Dershowitz. The country's 1967 strike against Egypt and Syria to begin the Six-Day War comes as close to perfect preemption as any event in recent history, but that success has proved difficult if not impossible to repeat. If this book is divisive, it's only because Dershowitz calls into question any hardline view, pro or con, of a practice that depends on circumstance and calculated risk-and even then hinges on what the public is willing to accept (profiling, assassinations, a nuclear strike) in the name of a safer tomorrow.Copyright &c
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