The Case for Pre-Emption: Alan M. Dershowitz Review
Neal Ascherson. Open Democracy, 22 August 2007.

The Implications of Preemptive and Preventive War Doctrines: A Reconsideration
Colin S. Gray. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, 24 July 2007.

Jus Ad Bellum After 9/11: A State of the Art Report
Mark Rigstad. The International Political Theory Beacon, June 2007.

European Views of Preemption in U.S. National Security Strategy
Gary L. Guertner. Parameters, Summer 2007 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

On 'Preventive War,' Kissinger Becomes Bush's 'Useful Idiot'
Walter C. Uhler. dissidentvoice.org, 14 April 2006.

The Rules On Preventive Force: Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism Require Rethinking a Time-Honored Approach
Henry A. Kissinger. Washington Post, 09 April 2006. Posted on the Washington News Review Website.

Preventive War and Its Alternatives:  The Lessons of History
Dan Reiter. Carlisle, PA: Army War Collerge Strategic Studies Institute, April 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Politics of Pacifism Meets FBI Monitoring
James Carroll. Boston Globe, 20 March 2006. Posted on the CommonDreams Website.

Preventive War Grasps at Straws
Les Payne. Newsday, 19 March 2006.

Changing the Rules: The United States, International Law and the War on Terror
Jakub Rzepka. March 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The National Security Strategy of the United States
The White House, March 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Beyond Preemption and Preventive War:  Increasing US Budget Emphasis on Conflict Prevention
Cindy Williams. Stanley Foundation Policy Analysis Brief, February 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Use of Force and Contemporary Security Threats:  Old Medicine for New Ills?
Allen S. Weiner, Stanford Law Review, 29:2, 2006. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Preventive Force in U.S. National Security Strategy
James Steinberg. Survival, Winter 2005-06 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website.

US Command Declares Global Strike Capability
David Ruppe. Global Security Newswire, 05 December 2005.

Preventive war, a useful tool
Ivo Daalder and James Steinberg. Los Angles Times, 04 December 2005. Posted on the Brookings Institute website.

Judgment at Nuremberg Part III:  Self-Defense, Preemptive War, Preventive War and the Crime of Aggressive War
Larry Beinhart. Huffington Post, 02 December 2005.

Not Just A Last Resort? A Global Strike Plan, With a Nuclear Option
William Arkin. Washington Post, 15 May 2005.

National Security Strategy of Preemption
Michael J. Arinello. U.S. Army War College Strategy Research Project, 18 March 2005 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Preventive War Meets Legitimacy: Balancing Power, Threats, and Global Norms in the Bush National Security Strategy
Bobby Smith. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, 18 March 2005 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Dangerous doctrine
Roger Speed and Michael May. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2005.

Preventive War: A Failed Doctrine
New York Times editorial, 12 September 2004.

Nuclear Deterrence, Preventive War, and Counterproliferation
Jeffrey Record. Policy Analysis #519, Cato Institute, 08 July 2004 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website.

Shooting First: The Pre-emptive War Doctrine Has Met an Early Death in Iraq
Ivo H. Daalder. Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2004. Posted on the Center for American Progress Website.

Propaganda, 'Preventive War' and the Weathervane of Foreign Policy
Bo Pellnäs. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, 08 February 2004. Posted on the Nordic News Network on 26 February 2004.

Preventive war, Common Security and the State
marko. Melbourne Independent Media Center, 05 January 2004.

Preventive War
David J. Luban. Philosophy & Public Affairs Vol. 32, No. 3, 2004 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website.

The Duty to Defend them: A Natural Legal Justification for the Bush Doctrine of Preventive War
William C. Bradford. Notre Dame Law Review Vol. 79, 2004 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website.

Ounce of Preventive War, Pound of Destruction
Errol Morris. Los Angeles Times (19 December 2003). Posted on the Common Dreams Website.

Democracy Cannot Coexist with Bush's Failed Doctrine of Preventive War
Benjamin R. Barber. Los Angeles Times (03 December 2003). Posted on the Common Dreams Website.

Preemptive Action: When, How, and to What Effect?
M. Elaine Bunn. Strategic Forum #200, National Defense University, July 2003 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website.

Can Preventive War Cure Proliferation?
Joseph Cirincione. Foreign Policy, July/August 2003 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The U.S. Doctrine of Preemptive Attack:  Real Problem, Wrong Answer
Jonathan Dean, et al. Report of the Task Force on Peace and Security, United Nations Association, 17 June 2003 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

'Preventive War' and International Law After Iraq
Duncan E. J. Currie. GlobeLaw Website, 22 May 2003.

The Fruits of Preventive War
James McPherson. American Historical Association Perspectives, May 2003.

The Age of Unilateral War:  Iraq, the United States and the End of the European Coalition
Gabriel Kolko. Counter Punch, 30 April 2003.

The Bush Doctrine and War with Iraq
Jeffrey Record. Parameters, Spring 2003.

A Work in Progress:  The Bush Doctrine and Its Consequences
Francois Heisbourg. The Washington Quarterly, 26:2, pp.75-88, Spring 2003 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Case Against the War
Jonathan Schell. The Nation, 03 March 2003.

The Slippery Slope to Preventive War
Neta C. Crawford. Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 02 March 2003.

Just War, Not Prevention
Thomas M. Nichols. Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 02 March 2003.

Striking First:  A History of Thankfully Lost Opportunities
Richard K. Betts. Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 02 March 2003.

The American Strategy of Preemptive War and International Law
Dietrich Murswiek. Institute of Public Law, University of Freiburg, Germany, March 2003 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Prevention or Preemption?: towards a clarification of terminology
Volker Kroening, MdB. Project on Defense Alternatives, March 2003.

Just War Against Iraq in 2003?  Accounting for Walzer's Instruction on Anticipation
Norman K. Swazo. The Ethical Spectacle, February 2003.

Waging Ancient War: Limits on Preemptive Force
D. Robert Worley. Army War College, February 2003 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website.

Iraq and Beyond:  The New U.S. National Security Strategy
Jonathan Kirshner, Barry Strauss, Maria Fanis, and Matthew Evangelista. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Peace Studies Program, Occasional Paper #27, January 2003 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

International Relations Theory and the Second Korean War
David C. Kang. International Studies Quarterly, #47:301-324, 2003 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Does an Ounce of Prevention Really Bring a Pound of Cure?  The Debate over Preventive War Doctrine
Hanni M. Cordes. National Defense University, 2003 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Preventive War and the Crisis of July, 1914
Daniel Moran. Center for Contemporary Conflict, Naval Postgraduate School, 06 November 2002 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Preventive War against Iraq
James A. Russell and James J. Wirtz. Center for Contemporary Conflict, Naval Postgraduate School, 04 November 2002 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Deterrence and Preemption
Daniel Moran. Strategic Insights, October 2002.

First Strike Guidelines:  the case of Iraq
Charles Knight. Project on Defense Alternatives, 16 September 2002 (revised and updated 10 March 2003, postscript added 01 March 2004).

Preventive or Preemptive War?
Alan Bock. Anti-war.com, 10 September 2002.

Understanding the New National Security Strategy of the United States
David McIntyre. Anser Institute for Homeland Security, Institute Analysis #009, September 2002.

But What's the Legal Case for Preemption?
Bruce Ackerman. Washington Post, 18 August 2002. Posted on the Yale Law School website on 20 August 2002.

Unilateral Preventive War:  Illegitimate and Immoral
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Los Angeles Times, (21 August 2002) (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Myth of Preemptive Self-Defense
Mary Ellen O'Connell. The American Society of International Law Task Force on Terrorism, August 2002 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

WMD Proliferation and Conventional Counterforce:  The Case of Iraq
James A. Russell. Strategic Insights, July 2002 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Preventive War
Harold Brown. Intervarsity.org, 15 September 2001.

Planning for Preventive War, 1945-1950
Gian P. Gentile. Joint Force Quarterly, Spring 2000 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Radical Responses to Radical Regimes:  evaluating preemptive counter-proliferation
Barry R. Schneider. Washington, DC: National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies, McNair Paper #41, May 1995 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Preventive Attack in the 1990s?
Steven R. Prebeck. Air University Press, 28 May 1993 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.