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Preface
1 The Preventive War Temptation versus the Anti-Preventive War Norm
The Preventive Motive for War
Norms and State Behavior
The Normative Dimensions of Preventive War in Theory
The Normative Dimensions of Preventive War in Practice
2 Preventing a Soviet Atomic Power Shift
The Strategic Problem
The Strategic Options: Preventing an Atomic Power Shift
Preventive Option #1: Negotiated Agreement on International Control of Atomic Technology
Preventive Option #2: War
The Material Explanation for the Rejection of Preventive War
3 Truman Rejects Preventive War
The Normative Ambivalence of Preventive War
Contemporary Scholars on Preventive War
Public Commentators on Preventive War
Policy Makers and the Dominance of the Anti-Preventive War Norm
Preventive War and the Republican Opposition
4 Eisenhower and the Growth of Soviet and Chinese Power, 1953–1955
Eisenhower and the Soviet Strategic Threat
The China Threat and the Preventive War Option
The Shifting China Threat
The Anti-Preventive War Norm and the Formosa Resolution Debate
The Preventive War Temptation Reemerges
No Preventive War Against Communist China
5 The Cuba Crisis of 1962
Soviet Conventional Arms in Cuba: July–October 22, 1962
Soviet Nuclear Missiles in Cuba: October 16–28, 1962
6 Coercive Anti-Proliferation: From China 1964 to North Korea 1994
The Missing Anti-Preventive War Norm: North Korea 1993–1994
Anti-Proliferation, “Rogue” States, and the Gulf War Effect
The Rise of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Norm
From Cooperative Nonproliferation to Coercive Anti-Proliferation
Israel’s Osirak Attack of 1981
Rogue States and the Proliferation Lessons of the 1991 Gulf War
7 Conclusion: The Iraq War of 2003
The Iraq Case as Preventive War
Congressional Attitudes on Preventive War Against Iraq
Public Attitudes on Preventive War Against Iraq
Implications for the Future of Preventive War
Endnotes
Index
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