The legal power to launch war who decides?
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Oxon, UK New York, NY
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : what is at stake?
- War and democracy
- Vietnam, Iraq and the "War on terror" : deception, war propaganda and legislative approval
- Increasingly unrestrained war powers in the United States: from Truman to Trump
- Britain's royal war prerogative reasserted and reinforced
- From Whitehall to the White House : the war power in Australia from legal subordination to political subservience
- The failure of reform proposals : an Australian case study
- War and dissent : sweeping domestic powers
- Contemporary preparations for wartime measures
- Martial law, official lawlessness and judicial complicity
- Can international law stop wars of aggression?
- Would referenda provide any alternative?
- Conclusions