Preemption by Dershowitz, Alan M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: A Brief History of Preemption, Prevention, and Prediction in the Context of Individual Crime

The Injury or Harm Approach The Dangerous Act Approach The Dangerous Person Approach Preventive Confinement: A Catalog of Denials Dual Systems of Criminal Justice: Retrospective and Preventive The Development of a System of Preventive Justice The Justice of the Peace Some Tentative Historical Conclusions

Chapter 2: Preemptive Military Action: From Surgical Strike to All-Out War

To Preempt or Not to Preempt: A Comparison between the Six-Day and Yom Kippur Wars The Six-Day War The Yom Kippur War The Rescue of Hostages at Entebbe The Destruction of the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor in 1981 The Invasion of Lebanon in 1982 Summarizing the Israeli-Arab War Experience: A Swinging Pendulum of Preemption

Chapter 4: Preventive Measures against Terrorism

Preventive and Preemptive Actions against Terrorists Preventive Detention of Potential Terrorists The English Experience The American Experience The Israeli Experience Targeted Preemption of Terrorists Preemption and Prevention of Biochemical Attacks Prior Restraint of Expression Other Preventive Mechanisms

Chapter 5: Bush Doctrine on Preemption, the U.S. Attack against Iraq

The Bush Doctrine The Prewar Debate over Prevention and Preemption Whether to Announce a Doctrine of Preemption The Postattack Debate Evaluating Decisions Relating to Iraq

Appendix A: Preventive Disbarment: The Numbers Are against It Appendix B: Karyotype, Predictability and Culpability Endnotes Ad Card Also by Alan M. Dershowitz Copyright