%0 Conference Paper %1 citeulike:345992 %A Rasmussen, Mikkel V. %B NOPSA Conference, Reykjavik %D 2005 %K war %T Precautionary Principles %U http://registration.yourhost.is/nopsa2005/papers/Precautionary%20Principles.doc %X ‘Pre-emption’ is a core strategic concept in risk society and this concept is now in the process of becoming a core concept of military doctrine. The concept of pre-emption is as old as warfare itself, but as a doctrine for US strategy it gained, depending on point of view, fame or notoriety during the 2002-3 debates about the invasion of Iraq. President Bush argued that the United States could not remain secure in a globalising world if the United States did not pre-empt threats from arising. This argument is surprisingly similar to the argument used by environmentalists when arguing for the ‘precautionary principle’. Thus military strategy now faces the problems of democratic control and burden of proof which have haunted environmental politics for some years now. The paper uses the concepts of ‘presence of the future’ and the ‘boomerang effect’ to analyse the advent of pre-emptive military doctrines by placing these doctrines in the overall context of ‘risk society’.

@inproceedings{citeulike:345992, abstract = {‘Pre-emption’ is a core strategic concept in risk society and this concept is now in the process of becoming a core concept of military doctrine. The concept of pre-emption is as old as warfare itself, but as a doctrine for US strategy it gained, depending on point of view, fame or notoriety during the 2002-3 debates about the invasion of Iraq. President Bush argued that the United States could not remain secure in a globalising world if the United States did not pre-empt threats from arising. This argument is surprisingly similar to the argument used by environmentalists when arguing for the ‘precautionary principle’. Thus military strategy now faces the problems of democratic control and burden of proof which have haunted environmental politics for some years now. The paper uses the concepts of ‘presence of the future’ and the ‘boomerang effect’ to analyse the advent of pre-emptive military doctrines by placing these doctrines in the overall context of ‘risk society’.}, added-at = {2007-04-06T10:50:16.000+0200}, author = {Rasmussen, Mikkel V.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2fe3b239bf6a12477e0a9eabaf18bd105/mhermans}, booktitle = {NOPSA Conference, Reykjavik}, citeulike-article-id = {345992}, interhash = {f7531aee9b8a753d30c3cc110c5c3eb6}, intrahash = {fe3b239bf6a12477e0a9eabaf18bd105}, keywords = {war}, month = {August}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2007-04-06T10:50:18.000+0200}, title = {Precautionary Principles}, url = {http://registration.yourhost.is/nopsa2005/papers/Precautionary%20Principles.doc}, year = 2005 }