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Prevention, Pre-emption and the
Nuclear Option

Despite its portrayal as a bold departure, the Bush Doctrine was not the new or revolutionary policy instrument that many at the time portended. This work seeks to argue that while it was clear that the Bush Doctrine certainly qualified as a preventive war policy, it is apparent that the adoption of this strategy did not mark a total break with American tradition or earlier Administrations.

Warren seeks to dispel arguments pertaining to the supposed radical nature of the Bush Doctrinebased on comparisons with previous National Security Strategies and previous Administrations penchant for prevention. However, the work also highlights that what was new and bold about the Bush Administrations National Security Strategy of 2002 was its willingness to embrace reinvigorating a nuclear option that could ultimately be used in the context of preventive war.

While Obama has struck bold rhetorical notes and promises in relation to limiting the role of nuclear weapons, he has stopped short of changing the status quo on critical issues that have lingered since the Cold Warsuch as tactical nuclear weapons and keeping missiles on alert. This books final section examines the extent to which Obama has attempted to adjust the nuclear option with the recent release of the congressionally mandated Nuclear Posture Review (NPR).

Offering new insights into the Bush doctrine and providing a comprehensive analysis of the current status of the US nuclear weapons strategy, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of American foreign policy, security studies, and international relations.

Aiden Warren is a lecturer in the School of Global Studies, Social Sciences and Planning at RMIT University, Australia.

Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

Edited by Inderjeet Parmar

University of Manchester

and

John Dumbrell

University of Durham

This new series sets out to publish high quality works by leading and emerging scholars critically engaging with United States Foreign Policy. The series welcomes a variety of approaches to the subject and draws on scholarship from international relations, security studies, international political economy, foreign policy analysis, and contemporary international history.

Subjects covered include the role of administrations and institutions, the media, think tanks, ideologues and intellectuals, elites, transnational corporations, public opinion, and pressure groups in shaping foreign policy, US relations with individual nations, with global regions and global institutions and Americas evolving strategic and military policies.

The series aims to provide a range of booksfrom individual research monographs and edited collections to textbooks and supplemental reading for scholars, researchers, policy analysts, and students.

1 United States Foreign Policy and National Identity in the 21st Century

Edited by Kenneth Christie

2 New Directions in US Foreign Policy

Edited by Inderjeet Parmar, Linda B. Miller and Mark Ledwidge

3 Americas Special Relationships

Foreign and domestic aspects of the politics of alliance

Edited by John Dumbrell and Axel R. Schfer

4 US Foreign Policy in Context

National ideology from the founders to the Bush doctrine

Adam Quinn

5 The United States and NATO since 9/11

The transatlantic alliance renewed

Ellen Hallams

6 Soft Power and US Foreign Policy

Theoretical, historical and contemporary perspectives

Edited by Inderjeet Parmar and Michael Cox

7 The US Public and American Foreign Policy

Edited by Andrew Johnstone and Helen Laville

8 American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction

Comparing Japan and Iraq

Jeff Bridoux

9 Neoconservatism and American Foreign Policy

A critical analysis

Danny Cooper

10 US Policy Towards Cuba

Since the Cold War

Jessica F. Gibbs

11 Constructing US Foreign Policy

The curious case of Cuba

David Bernell

12 Race and US Foreign Policy

The African-American

foreign affairs network

Mark Ledwidge

13 Gender Ideologies and Military Labor Markets in the U.S.

Saskia Stachowitsch

14 Prevention, Pre-emption and the Nuclear Option

From Bush to Obama

Aiden Warren

Prevention, Pre-emption and
the Nuclear Option

From Bush to Obama

Aiden Warren

First published 2012

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2012 Aiden Warren

The right of Aiden Warren to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Warren, Aiden.
Prevention, pre-emption and the nuclear option : from Bush to Obama / Aiden Warren.
p. cm. (Routledge studies in US foreign policy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. United StatesForeign relations20012009. 2. United
StatesForeign relations2009 3. Pre-emptive attack (Military
science)Government policyUnited States. 4. TerrorismPrevention
Government policyUnited States. 5. Nuclear weaponsGovernment policyUnited States. 6. National securityUnited States. 7. Bush,
George W. (George Walker), 1946 Political and social views.
8. United StatesForeign relationsPhilosophy. 9. United States
Foreign relations20th centuryCase studies. 10. Pre-emptive attack
(Military science)Government policyUnited StatesCase studies.
I. Title.
JZ1480.W39 2011
355.02170973dc222011014681

ISBN: 978-0-415-66995-5 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-80208-3 (ebk)

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Abbreviations and acronyms

ADW	Agent-Defeat Weapons
ALERTORD	Global Strike Alert Order
BMDR	Ballistic Missile Defense Review
BUR	Bottom-Up Review
BW	Biological Weapon
BWC	Biological Weapons Convention
CBW	Chemical and Biological Weapons
CENTCOM	Central Command
ChiCom	Communist China

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