Chinese Attitudes on Preventive War and the 'Preemption Doctrine'
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Authors
Silverstone, Scott A.
Issue Date
2009-07
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Other
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en_US
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Abstract
With the release of President Bush‘s first National Security Strategy (NSS) in September 2002, the administration articulated a bold claim about the use of military force that had been crystallizing in American strategic circles over the previous decade. According to a central element in the emerging ―Bush Doctrine‖, launching attacks against so-called rogue states suspected of pursuing weapons of mass destruction was a normatively legitimate strategically necessary response to the changing threat environment.
This paper examines the attitudes on preventive war in the case of the Peoples Republic of China. Specifically it asks how Chinese elites – government officials and academics – view preventive war in the wake of American efforts to recast the preventive war norm and the invasion so Iraq. How do Chinese elites react to the logic and normative claims at the heart of the Bush administration‘s ―preemption doctrine‖? Do Chinese elites reject it in normative terms reminiscent of the antipreventive war attitudes prevalent in the United States during the decades after World War II? Or have Chinese elites accepted America‘s position on this issue as a precedent that the Chinese government itself might mobilize politically in potential conflicts on its periphery?
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INSS Research Paper
Citation
Inst For National Security Studies Us Air Force Academy Co, and Scott A. Silverstone. 2009. “Chinese Attitudes on Preventive War and the ‘Preemption Doctrine.’” DTIC, January. https://research-ebsco-com.usafa.idm.oclc.org/linkprocessor/plink?id=05204aaf-8a92-3a40-a099-a0e5fc2cd7d1.
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DTIC