Clinton Wars

The Constitution, Congress, and War Powers

AvRyan C. Hendrickson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Today the United States is fighting a ""war"" against terrorism, a military action whose definition will be a matter of controversy, particularly, if history is any guide, between Congress and the president. Throughout its history, the United States has grappled with the constitutional tension built into the conduct of its foreign affairs and the interpretation of the power to make war and use force abroad. Since the Cold War's end, the United States has had to navigate through a period of strategic ambiguity, where American national security interests are much less certain. This volume examines the behaviour of the Clinton administration and Congress in dealing with the range of American military operations that occurred during the Clinton presidency. The author uses a case-study approach, laying out the foreign background and domestic political controversies in separate chapters on Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq. Of special interest after the World Trade Center attacks is the chapter ""Terrorism: Usama Bin Laden"".

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-06-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN:9780826514134

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Ryan C. Hendrickson is assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University.

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The Clinton Wars is a timely and significant examination of the war powers issue. I know of no other work that treats the major uses of force in the Clinton administration so thoroughly from the vantage point of legislative-executive interaction. Moreover, because there is a growing body of literature on congressional assertiveness of late, this book makes an important contribution to this debate.--James M. Scott, author of Deciding to Intervene: The Reagan Doctrine and American Foreign Policy