Prevention, Pre-Emption and the Nuclear Option - From Bush to Obama

Informationen zum Autor Aiden Warren is a lecturer in the School of Global Studies! Social Sciences and Planning atRMIT University! Australia Klappentext This work seeks to argue that while it was clear that the Bush Doctrine certainly qualified as a preventive war policy! it is apparent that the adoption of this strategy did not mark a total break with American tradition or earlier administrations. Zusammenfassung This book seeks to analyse the Bush Doctrine?s controversial preemption/prevention policy and its willingness to place the nuclear option to the fore of US security strategy. Additionally, it will evaluate the first two years of the Obama administration and its attempts "adjust" and refine US nuclear strategy ? if at all. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Bush Doctrine: Definitions and Interpretations of Prevention and Pre-emption 2. The Bush Doctrine: Preventive War in Iraq 3. The Bush Doctrine and Prevention: Evident in 20th Century US Foreign Policy – Case Studies 4. The Bush Doctrine and the Nuclear Option:The Transition from Clinton to Bush 5. The Nuclear Option: Bush and the "Real" Doctrine 6. The Nuclear Option: From Bush to Obama

Product details

• Authors: Aiden Warren, Aiden (Rmit University Warren, Warren Aiden
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2011
• EAN: 9780415669955
• ISBN: 978-0-415-66995-5
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, United States of America, USA, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Nuclear weapons, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Arms negotiation & control, Arms negotiation and control