Preventive War and American Democracy
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first "preventive war" launched by the United States. This is not the first time in U.S. history, however, that US leaders debated whether the preventive war option was an appropriate American to various international crises. Scott Silverstone will explore the history of the preventive war option across these cases, to explain why preventive war was rejected for decades, and how the war in Iraq is a dramatic departure from years of traditional thinking on the preventive war option.
Scott Silverstone
Scott Silverstone is Associate Professor of International Relations at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. Before beginning graduate school in 1993, Silverstone was a U.S. naval officer. He flew for the Navy from 1986 to 1990 and from 1990 to 1993 served on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon as a crisis management officer. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. He is the author of The Ethical Limits to Preventive War.
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