Political Science : Political Freedom & Security

Since 9/11, terrorism has been at the forefront of global politics and international relations. This edition brings this comprehensive compilation of international law documents relating to terrorism up-to-date. more...

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Continues the success of the previous edition as a practical introduction to FEMA and THE reference for emergency management and disaster relief! more...

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THE definitive resource for anyone entering or currently working in the security industry more...

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Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989 raises the crucial question whether Japan's political leadership is able to handle such a complex policy in the face of an increasing assertive China and an US alliance partner with strong swings more...

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Six years after the September 11 attacks, America is. losing a crucial front in the ongoing war on terror. It is losing. not to Al Qaeda but to its own failure to construct a set of laws. that will protect the American people—its military and executive. branch, as well as its citizens—in the midst of a conflict. unlike any it has faced in the past. Now, in the twilight of. President Bush’s administration, Brookings Institution fellow. Benjamin Wittes offers a vigorous analysis of the troubling. legal legacy of the Bush administration as well as that of the. U.S. Congress and the Supreme Court. Law and the Long War. tells as no book has before the story of how America came to its. current impasse in the debate over liberty, human rights, and. counterterrorism and draws a road map for how the country. and the next president might move forward. Moving beyond the stale debate between those fixated. on the executive branch as the key architect of counterterrorism. policy and those who see the judiciary as the essential guarantor. of liberty against governmental abuses, Wittes argues that. the essential problem is that the Bush administration did not. seek—and Congress did not write—new laws to authorize and. regulate the tough presidential actions this war would require. In a line of argument that is sure to spark controversy, Wittes. reveals an administration whose most significant failure was. not that it was too aggressive in the substance of its action, but. rather that it tried to shoulder the burden of aggressiveness on. its own without seeking the support of other branches of government. Using startling new empirical research on the detainee. population at Guantánamo Bay, Wittes avers that many of the. administration’s actions were far more defensible than its many. critics believed and actually warranted congressional support. Yet by resisting both congressional and judicial involvement. in its controversial decisions, the execu more...

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