Presidential machismo : executive authority, military intervention, and foreign relations /
Publisher description: 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 pre...
| Основен автор: | DeConde, Alexander. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Boston :
Northeastern University Press,
c2000.
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| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Presidential machismo. |
Съдържание:
- Origins of activism
- Commander in chief enhanced
- To the stewardship theory
- Iron-fisted morality
- Presidential war as prerogative
- Covert interventialism
- The watershed
- Preeminence regained
- Machismo still rewarded
- Must presidents prevail?