The Ethics of Preventive War

Deen K. Chatterjee is the Senior Advisor and Professorial Fellow of Justice and Global Initiative in the S. J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah and the editor-in-chief of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Global Justice and the series editor of Studies in Global Justice. His publications include Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century (2007), Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy (2004) and, with Don E. Scheid, Ethics and Foreign Intervention (2003).

The book examines the complex and contested moral and legal issues of preventive warfare.

1. Introduction; Part I. Conceptual, Normative, and Methodological Terrains: 2. Prevention, pre-emption and other conundrums Jean Bethke Elshtain; 3. After Caroline: NSS 2002, practical judgement and the politics and ethics of pre-emption Chris Brown; 4. The case for preventive war George Lucas, Jr; Part II. International Law: 5. Does international law make a moral difference?: the case of preventive war Michael Blake; 6. Threat diplomacy in world politics: legal, moral, political, and civilizational challenges Richard Falk; 7. Preventive war and trials of aggression Larry May; Part III. Critiques of Preventive War: 8. The conditions of liability to preventive attack Jeff McMahan; 9. Are preventive wars always wrong? Stephen Nathanson; 10. Ethics and legality: US prevention in Iran Alex Newton; Part IV. Beyond Preventive War: Exploring Other Options: 11. Preventive violence: terrorism and humanitarian intervention Tony Coady; 12. Enough about just war, what about just peace?: The doctrine of preventive non-intervention Deen Chatterjee.