Presidential Machismo: Executive Authority, Military Intervention, and Foreign RelationsUPNE, 2000 - 391 páginas 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. |
Índice
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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