Are Efforts to Reduce Terrorism Successful? | Preemptive War Reduces Terrorism
Michael J. Glennon, professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, is the author of many articles and books, including Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism After Kosovo.
Anticipatory self-defense, or the doctrine of preemption, holds that it is acceptable for a state to attack a known hostile enemy before that enemy can attack it. Although prohibited by the United Nations Charter in 1945, anticipatory self-defense was necessary throughout the twentieth century, and it continues to be into the...
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