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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What are Anticipatory Military Activities? -- 3 International Security -- 4 International Law -- 5 The Just War Tradition -- 6 Strategic Necessity, Law, and Norms I: Anticipatory Military Activities and Imminent Threats -- 7 Strategic Necessity, Law, and Norms II: Anticipatory Military Activities and Distant Threats -- 8 Strategic Necessity, Law, and Norms III: Anticipatory Military Activities and the Bush Doctrine -- 9 Conclusions and Implications -- Bibliography

Anticipatory military activities, both preemptive and preventive, are at the centre of American strategic doctrine. Rachel Bzostek puts forward a full understanding of why states have or have not undertaken such activities in the past in order to comprehend why states have rarely used this method.