The National Security Constitution : Sharing Power after the Iran-Contra Affair / Harold Koh ; Mark Jay Mirsky.
Was the Iran-Contra affair caused by executive lawlessness or legislative folly? Or did it result instead from structural defects in our national security decision-making system? In this important new book, Harold Koh argues that the affair was not aberrational but symptomatic of a chronic dysfuncti...
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[1995]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 How the Iran-Contra Investigators Failed: An Autopsy
- 2 Recognizing the Pattern of History
- 3 The National Security Constitution We Inherited: From the Founding to the National Security Act
- 4 The Iran-Contra Affair as an Assault on the Postwar National Security Constitution
- 5 Why the President Almost Always Wins in Foreign Affairs: Executive Initiative and Congressional Acquiescence
- 6 Why the President Almost Always Wins in Foreign Affairs: The Problem of Judicial Tolerance
- 7. Restoring the National Security Constitution: Some Guiding Principles
- 8 Restoring the National Security Constitution: Some Specific Proposals
- 9 A National Security Constitution for the Posthegemonic Age
- Notes
- Index.