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The modern laws of war that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were developed with a particular concept of war in mindone that does not apply to the conflict with our current adversaries. With the September 11 attacks the United States found itself engaged in a new kind of war, with new dilemmas that needed new rules. Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution examines three significant enemy combatant casesPadilla, Hamdi, and Rasulthat represent the leading edge of U.S. efforts to devise legal rules, consistent with American constitutional principles, for waging the global war on terror.The volume's distinguished contributors analyze the crucial questions these cases raise about the balance between national security and civil liberties in wartime, discuss critical separation of powers issues, and call upon the courts, the political branches, and the country to reexamine the complicated connections between the Constitution and international law. Spanning the spec

Terrorism the Laws of War and the Constitution

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      Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
      Published 30 June 2005
      ISBN-13 9780817946227
      978-0817946227
      ISBN-10 0817946225
      Also in:
      Terrorism, armed struggle

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      Book Synopsis
      The modern laws of war that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were developed with a particular concept of war in mindone that does not apply to the conflict with our current adversaries. With the September 11 attacks the United States found itself engaged in a new kind of war, with new dilemmas that needed new rules. Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution examines three significant enemy combatant casesPadilla, Hamdi, and Rasulthat represent the leading edge of U.S. efforts to devise legal rules, consistent with American constitutional principles, for waging the global war on terror.The volume's distinguished contributors analyze the crucial questions these cases raise about the balance between national security and civil liberties in wartime, discuss critical separation of powers issues, and call upon the courts, the political branches, and the country to reexamine the complicated connections between the Constitution and international law. Spanning the spec

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