Checking the Costs of War : Sources of Accountability in Post-9/11 US Foreign Policy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kreps, Sarah E.

Contributor:

Kriner, Douglas L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executive power--United States.

Executive power.

United States--Foreign policy--21st century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.

Summary:

A thorough reassessment of how domestic factors do and do not constrain the use of American military force abroad in the early twenty-first century. More than two decades have passed since the September 11th terrorist attacks resuscitated debates about the “imperial presidency” within the United States. During that same time, the United States has fought costly and inconclusive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, pivoted to the Pacific to counter China, and pulled its gaze back to Europe and the Middle East in response to wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Moreover, new technologies and ways of funding and staffing wars have made the costs of war less visible to the public while polarization has increased and a new legal doctrine of presidential power has gained force. Against this backdrop, Checking the Costs of War reassesses how domestic factors have both constrained and failed to constrain the use of military power across different contexts and over time. Richly empirical chapters explore the varying effects of different kinds of potential checks: legislative, public opinion, and bureaucratic. Collectively, chapters offer new insight into the prospects for war and peace today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

CHAPTER ONE Unfettered Foreign Policy? Domestic Checks on Presidential Powers after 9/11

CHAPTER TWO Purely Partisan Warriors? Legislative Rhetoric in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars

CHAPTER THREE Varieties of Bipartisanship How Democrats and Republicans Align on Foreign and Domestic Policy

CHAPTER FOUR Cassandra's Reward: The Electoral Benefits of Early Opposition to an Unpopular War

CHAPTER FIVE Congressional Midterms, Presidential Reelection, and US Foreign Policy

CHAPTER SIX Modern Day Minutemen? Public Opinion and Reserve Component Mobilization

CHAPTER SEVEN Gender and the Political Costs of War: Partisan Cues, Gender Heuristics, and the Politics of Public Opposition to War

CHAPTER EIGHT Nondominant Communal Groups and Casualty Sensitivity: Evidence from Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States

CHAPTER NINE "Hand-to-Hand Combat" Bureaucratic Politics and National Security

CHAPTER TEN War Powers, the "Deep State," and Insurrection

CHAPTER ELEVEN A Post-GWOT Syndrome? Institutional Response, Public Opinion, and the Future of US Foreign Policy

Acknowledgments

Index

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ISBN:

9780226838151

0226838153

OCLC:

1496397071