Synopses & Reviews
A path-breaking must-read for government leaders, strategists, and all concerned Americans.-- General Wesley K. Clark
In Preemption, one of our nation's foremost legal scholars puts forward a controversial new theory on crime and punishment in the postmodern world. Using the American government's 2003 invasion of Iraq as a starting point, Alan M. Dershowitz tracks our society's increasing reliance on preemptive action. In Preemption, which Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals calls lucid, sober, courageous, and historically informed, Dershowitz has brought together all of his diverse and considerable talents and experiences to confront the idea of preemptive action as it applies to some of our most urgent political and moral dilemmas.
Review
"In this provocative, illuminating, and lively book, [Dershowitz] demonstrates that simple conclusions disserve democracy--and endanger our safety. Dershowitz is right to call for a jurisprudence of preemption; he takes important steps toward providing that jurisprudence." Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago
Synopsis
In one of our nation's foremost legal scholars puts forward a controversial new theory on crime and punishment in the postmodern world. Using the American government's 2003 invasion of Iraq as a starting point, Alan M. Dershowitz tracks our society's increasing reliance on preemptive action. In , which Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals calls "lucid, sober, courageous, and historically informed," Dershowitz has brought together all of his diverse and considerable talents and experiences to confront the idea of preemptive action as it applies to some of our most urgent political and moral dilemmas.
Synopsis
A analysis of America's increasing reliance on preemptive actions, from profiling to preventive war, identifies the benefits and consequences of the nation's paradigm shift toward more preventive and proactive approaches to conflict, arguing that the seeds of such a shift were planted prior to the events of September 11. Reprint.
Synopsis
"A path-breaking must-read for government leaders, strategists, and all concerned Americans."--General Wesley K. Clark
About the Author
Leading criminal law and constitutional scholar Alan M. Dershowitzis the author of such critically acclaimed books as Rights from Wrongs, The Case for Israel, and Why Terrorism Works. A professor at Harvard Law School, he lives in Massachusetts.Henry Louis Gates, Jr.is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities, Chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.