Presidential Machismo: Executive Authority, Military Intervention, and Foreign Relations

Framsida
UPNE, 2000 - 391 sidor
The US presidency is the most powerful office in the world, claiming a prerogative to exercise force in foreign affairs that, according to Harry S. Truman, would have made Caesar or Genghis Khan envious. This book offers a historical account of how presidents from George Washington to Bill Clinton have asserted their privilege as commander-in-chief, examining their penchant for using military might unilaterally and their reasons for doing so. It asks why a democracy allows presidents to exercise such immense power vitually as a personal right.

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INTRODUCTION
3
Commander in Chief Enhanced
37
To the Stewardship Theory
66
IronFisted Morality
95
Presidential War as Prerogative
120
Covert Interventionism
154
The Watershed
184
Preeminence Regained
216
Machismo Still Rewarded
246
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