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Wishing to be helpful, Nurturing the Imperial Presidency by Brien Hallett illuminates the 5,000-year-old invariant practice of executive war-making. Why has the nation's war leader always decided and declared war?
Substituting a speech act approach for the traditional "separation of powers" approach, Hallett argues that he who controls the drafting of the declaration of war also controls the decision to go to war.
However, recent legislation calling for legislated "approvals" or “authorization to use force” before the executive can go to war, in no way hinder the executive's ancient prerogative power to decide and declare war. Innovative ways to deny the executive its ability to decide and declare war are proposed in this book.
Substituting a speech act approach for the traditional "separation of powers" approach, Hallett argues that he who controls the drafting of the declaration of war also controls the decision to go to war.
However, recent legislation calling for legislated "approvals" or “authorization to use force” before the executive can go to war, in no way hinder the executive's ancient prerogative power to decide and declare war. Innovative ways to deny the executive its ability to decide and declare war are proposed in this book.
Price: $174.00
Pages: 200
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Theory Workshop
Publication Date:
01 October 2020
ISBN: 9789004439252
Format: Hardcover
Brien Hallett, Ph.D. (1995), is a Professor in the Institute for Peace, University of Hawai'i. His books include The Lost Art of Declaring War (University of Illinois Press, 1998) and Declaring War (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He served as a platoon Commander and intelligence officer in Vietnam, 1967-1970.