Download or read book Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways (Issues of Our Time) written by Alan M. Dershowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-02-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.