The U.S. Constitution and the Power to Go to War
Historical and Current Perspectives
Published on 30. November 1993
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-313-28958-3 (ISBN)
Description
Noted experts examine America's power to go to war historically and recently, now that the Cold War has ended. They propose ways that the Congress and the president might develop a new working consensus for dealing with the use of military or paramilitary force in the future. This scholarly study of constitutional and statutory proscriptions, UN treaty and international obligations, and judicial restraints is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students, law students, teachers, and professionals concerned with constitutional interpretation, the government's division of power, and war making.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-28958-3 (9780313289583)
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Persons
GARY M. STERN, Research Associate at the Center for National Security Studies, focuses on the war powers and other issues involving national security and civil liberties. He co-authored Lawful Wars with Morton Halperin in Foreign Policy (Fall 1988) and the American Civil Liberties Union amicus curiae brief in Dellums v. Bush in 1990.
MORTON H. HALPERIN, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was formerly the Director of the Advisory Board of the Center for National Security Studies and the American Civil Liberties Union. His many books include Self-Determination in the New World Order (1992) and Nuclear Fallacy (1987).
MORTON H. HALPERIN, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was formerly the Director of the Advisory Board of the Center for National Security Studies and the American Civil Liberties Union. His many books include Self-Determination in the New World Order (1992) and Nuclear Fallacy (1987).
Content
Acknowledgments Introduction by Gary M. Stern and Morton H. Halperin Historical Survey of the War Powers and the Use of Force by Louis Fisher Constitutional Constraints: The War Clause by Peter Raven-Hansen Statutory Constraints: The War Powers Resolution by Ellen C. Collier Treaty Constraints: The United Nations Charter and War Powers by Jane E. Stromseth International Law Constraints by Jules Lobel Judicial Constraints: The Courts and War Powers by Harold Hongju Koh Constraints on "Covert" Paramilitary Action by Gregory F. Treverton "Covert" Paramilitary Action and War Powers by Gary M. Stern and Morton H. Halperin Emergency War Powers by John Norton Moore Common Ground by Gary M. Stern and Morton H. Halperin Appendix Selected Bibliography Index