Under what conditions preventive wars are justifiable

Introduction to Political Theory:
Fourth Essay

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Under what conditions preventive wars are justifiable...............................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFRENCES ..................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Political theory is study of topics that covers politics, liberty, philosophy, justice,
property rights and enforcement of laws etc. The present report is based on political question
such as under what condition are preventive wars are justifiable.
MAIN BODY
Under what conditions preventive wars are justifiable.
Preventive war termed out as the war that is initiated to prevent another party from
acquiring the capability for attacking (O’Connell, 2020). In addition to this, power of being
attacked has either latent threat capability that can be shown through its posturing and this can
also intends to follow suit with the future attack. In addition to this, the condition of the
preventive war mainly occurs at the time when state launches the military conflict to stop another
state and other international actor from becoming a threat. It is the war that can be quite differ
from more of the typical situation in which the state use to go to war after a period of crisis. In
addition to this, it can be stated that preventive war are not those who response to the specific
crisis and this is not any kind of the reaction to the particular event. Also, this is also not direct
threat to security.
However, this can be stated that preventive war is quite different as well from the preventive war
on which a state attacks in terms to disrupt enemy about to attack first. In addition to this, the
difference among the prevention and pre-emption is often faded one, but pre-emption is mainly
occurs before the outbreaks of the hostilities and this is also directed against any of the enemy
clearly in the process of preparing an attack and this can also be stated that prevention can be
during the course of relative peace ( Mello, 2020).
In addition to this, it can be stated that one of the most controversial examples of
preventive war took place in 2003, at the time when united states led a coalition to war in against
to Iraq on the grounds that saddam Hussein regime continued to work on the developing weapon
of the mass destruction that is inclusive of the neural weapons. This decision to go to war that
was keeping with what some of the observes believe is a new America doctrine of the preventive
war. Hence, preventive war is a war that is mainly initiated to prevent another party from the
attacking ( Pfister and Fertig, 2020). This is called out as war that mainly aim to forestall the
shift in the balance of power. In addition to this, with help of strategically attacking before the
balance of power has become the chance that shifted in the direction of the adversary. Under the