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  title info:
    title: Presidential Accountability in Wartime
    sub title: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War
  name:
    name part: Streichler, Stuart
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  name:
    name part: Project Muse
    role:
      role term: distributor
  type of resource: text
  genre: History
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The American presidency has long tested the capacity of the system of checks and balances to constrain executive power, especially in times of war. While scholars have examined presidents starting military conflicts without congressional authorization or infringing on civil liberties in the name of national security, Stuart Streichler focuses on the conduct of hostilities. Using the treatment of war-on-terror detainees under President George W. Bush as a case study, he integrates international humanitarian law into a constitutional analysis of the repercussions of presidential war powers for human rights around the world. Putting President Bush's actions in a wider context, Presidential Accountability in Wartime begins with a historical survey of the laws of war, with particular emphasis on the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the Nuremberg Tribunal. Streichler then reconstructs the decision-making process that led to the president's approval of interrogation methods that violated Geneva's mandate to treat wartime captives humanely. While taking note of various accountability options-from within the executive branch to the International Criminal Court-the book illustrates the challenge in holding presidents personally responsible for violating the laws of war through an in-depth analysis of the actions taken by Congress, the Supreme Court, and the public in response. In doing so, this book not only raises questions about whether international humanitarian law can moderate wartime presidential behavior but also about the character of the presidency and the American constitutional system of government.
  table of contents: The law of war -- The new paradigm -- Congress and an unchecked presidency -- The court versus the Commander in Chief -- The torture debate.
  note: Stuart Alan Streichler.
  note: Open Access Unrestricted online access star
  subject:
    topic: War and emergency powers
  subject:
    topic: Torture
    topic: Law and legislation
  subject:
    topic: Torture (International law)
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    topic: Prevention
    topic: Law and legislation
  subject:
    topic: Prisoners of war
    topic: Abuse of
  subject:
    topic: Political questions and judicial power
  subject:
    topic: Legislative power
  subject:
    topic: Humanitarian law
  subject:
    topic: Executive power
  subject:
    topic: Droit international humanitaire
  subject:
    topic: Torture (Droit international)
  subject:
    topic: Politique et pouvoir judiciaire
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Prisonniers de guerre
    topic: Violence envers
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Pouvoir executif
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Humanitarian law
  subject:
    topic: Torture (International law)
  subject:
    topic: Torture
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Political questions and judicial power
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Legislative power
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    topic: Prevention
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Prisoners of war
    topic: Abuse of
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Executive power
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: War and emergency powers
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bush, George W. (George Walker)
      name part: 1946-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bush, George W. (George Walker)
      name part: 1946-
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Book collections on Project MUSE
  identifier: 9780472903900
  identifier: 9780472056491
  identifier: 9780472076499
  identifier: 2023020929
  identifier: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/114457/
  access condition: Open Access
  record info:
    record content source: MdBmJHUP
    record creation date: 230530
    record change date: 20240815120903.0
    record identifier: musev2_114457