An Ethiopian soldier is seen in Kismayu, Somalia, Jan 2, 2006. Eight months after the UN-backed government supported by troops from Ethiopia rolled into Mogadishu promising peace, divisions over clan, politics, and power were stronger than ever.
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PAST EVENT
New Threats, New Rules? The Future of Preventive War
Brown Bag Lunch
Series: International Security Brown Bag Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
November 5, 2009
12:15-2:00 p.m.
| Speaker: | Thomas M. Nichols, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom |
Related Project: International Security
Description:
Are international norms about the recourse to war changing? Has the world entered a new era in which preventive war—striking at potential threats rather than defending against imminent danger—is not only acceptable but increasingly preferred by policymakers in an environment rife with qualitatively new threats to the state and national security? This presentation will examine the concept of preventive war, its evolution as a tool of statecraft since the end of Cold War, and possible means of averting a coming age of uncontrolled preventive war.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Project on Managing the Atom.
Contact:
ISP Program Coordinator
International Security Program,
79 John F. Kennedy St., Mailbox 53,
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Email: susan_lynch@hks.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-496-1981
Fax: 617-495-8963
Url: http://www.belfercenter.org/ISP/
February 24, 2009
"The Move Toward Preventive Military Action is an International Phenomenon"
Rorotoko
By Thomas M. Nichols, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
"...[P]reventive military action is a lot bigger than George Bush, 9/11, the UN, or anything else. The problem is not as new as you might think; the erosion of national sovereignty and the growing temptations of preventive war have been in the works since at least the late 1980s, and in countries all around the world."
