The best defense? : legitimacy and preventive force

Sofaer, Abraham D. (Author). Stanford University. Task Force on Preventive Force. (Added Author).

Summary: The Stanford Task Force Report on Preventive Force, by Abraham D. Sofaer, offers a practical guide to identifying and considering the issues relevant to preventive uses of force. The report seeks to ensure that such uses of force, if undertaken, will advance national and international security and the purposes of the United Nations Charter. The report examines the legitimacy, dangers, and limitations of preventive force and concludes by encouraging states and decision makers to undertake a systematic appraisal of the merits of any threat or use of preventive force based, not only on legal standards, which have proved an ineffective guide, but also on standards related to legitimacy, such as the consistency of proposed actions with the U.N. Charter and established norms of conduct.

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ISBN: 0817910050
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages)
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Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, ©2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A report of the Stanford University Task Force on Preventive Force." "Revisions based on the Asia meeting, and on comments from African and Latin American consultations, are incorporated into this report"--Introduction
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-193) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword / George P. Shultz -- Introduction -- Defining preventive force -- Current threats and preventive force -- Categories of preventive action -- Dangers and limitations of using preventive force -- International law and preventive force -- Legitimacy and preventive force -- Conclusion.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2012.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.