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The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense: Questioning the Legal Basis for Preventive War
John Quigley
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Description for The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense: Questioning the Legal Basis for Preventive War
paperback. This book seeks to provide a corrective on the 1967 war between Israel and Arab states using documents declassified by key governments. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; LBBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386. Questioning the Legal Basis for Preventive War. 280 pages. Seeks to provide a corrective on the 1967 war between Israel and Arab states using documents declassified by key governments. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1FBH; LBBS. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 16. Weight: 380.
The war of June 1967 between Israel and Arab states was widely perceived as being forced on Israel to prevent the annihilation of its people by Arab armies hovering on its borders. Documents now declassified by key governments question this view. The UK, USSR, France and the USA all knew that the Arab states were not in attack mode and tried to dissuade Israel from attacking. In later years, this war was held up as a precedent allowing an attack on a state that is expected to attack. It has even been used to justify a pre-emptive assault on a ... Read more
The war of June 1967 between Israel and Arab states was widely perceived as being forced on Israel to prevent the annihilation of its people by Arab armies hovering on its borders. Documents now declassified by key governments question this view. The UK, USSR, France and the USA all knew that the Arab states were not in attack mode and tried to dissuade Israel from attacking. In later years, this war was held up as a precedent allowing an attack on a state that is expected to attack. It has even been used to justify a pre-emptive assault on a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107610026
SKU
V9781107610026
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About John Quigley
John Quigley is the President's Club Professor in Law at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. After earning his AB, LLB and MA degrees at Harvard University, he was a research associate at Harvard Law School. He has written extensively on international law, in particular on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is the author most recently of The ... Read more
Reviews for The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense: Questioning the Legal Basis for Preventive War
'… provides many new insights into the origins of the war … lucid and splendidly readable account of the Six-Day War …' Victor Kattan, International Affairs