Attackability.
As its title indicates, this essay undertakes to conceptualize and to critique attackability—the legitimating logic yet also the underlying weakness of pre-emptive warfare. The recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have tended to script an inevitability of imperial attack in terms of the putative enem...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 299 - 320 |
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University of Toronto Press
2009
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