The U.S. Constitution and the power to go to war : historical and current perspectives / edited by Gary M. Stern and Morton H. Halperin, prepared under the auspices of the Center for National Security Studies.

Contributor Stern, Gary M.

Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.

Descriptionvi, 199 p. ; 25 cm.

Note:"The chapters in this book were originally commissioned for the September 18-19, 1992 CNSS conference on Constitutional Government and Military Intervention after the Cold War, held at and cosponsored by the Georgetown University Law Center"--Acknowledgements.

Note:Introduction / Gary M. Stern, Morton H. Halperin -- 1. Historical survey of the war powers and the use of force / Louis Fisher -- 2. Constitutional constraints: the war clause / Peter Raven-Hansen -- 3. Statutory constraints: the war powers resolution / Ellen C. Collier -- 4. Treaty constraints: the United Nations Charter and war powerse / Jane E. Stromseth -- 5. International law constraints / Jules Lobel -- 6. Judicial constraints: the courts and war powers / Harold Hongju Koh -- 7. Constraints on "covert" paramilitary action / Gregory F. Treverton -- 8. "Covert" parmilitary action and war powers / Gary M. Stern, Morton H. Halperin -- 9. Emergency war powers / John Norton Moore -- 10. Common ground / Gary M. Stern, Morton H. Halperin -- Appendix.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-189) and index.

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