How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught with conflicting new forms of identity politics and intensifying conflicts over culture? This book brings unparalleled clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts...
Interpreting the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt rereads Arendt’s political philosophy in light of newly gained insights into the historico-cultural background of her work. Arguing against the standard interpretation...
This book explores the tension between universal principles of human rights and the self-determination claims of sovereign states as they affect the claims of refugees, asylum-seekers and immigrants. Drawing on the work of Kant’s “cosmopolitan doctrine” and positions developed by Hannah...
The world changed forever on May 11, 1998. That was the day India defied the rest of the world by testing nuclear weapons. The Indian test of five atomic bombs, and the Pakistani tests that answered a few weeks later, marked the end of an arms control system that has kept the world from nuclear...
The scope and applicability of risk management have expanded greatly over the past decade. Banks, corporations, and public agencies employ its new technologies both in their daily operations and long-term investments. It would be unimaginable today for a global bank to operate without such systems...
A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to “think about the unthinkable.”
The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons―a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It’s not just the threat of Iran...
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This chapter examines what constitutes an “armed attack” in cyberspace, and how—once it has attributed responsibility—the United States should respond to this type of warfare. The author briefly outlines the set of international laws governing war, the challenges in applying them to...
Co-authored with Michael Stokes Paulsen, Michael W. McConnell and Samuel L. Bray.
This casebook emphasizes the text, structure, and history of the Constitution.
It uses great cases as paradigms for learning the major issues in constitutional law, and it offers less attention to the small ripples...
Co-authored with Christopher S. Yoo.
This book is the first to undertake a detailed historical and legal examination of presidential power and the theory of the unitary executive. This theory—that the Constitution gives the president the power to remove and control all policy-making subordinates in...
In this volume marking the Sesquicentennial of Confederation in Canada, leading scholars and jurists discuss the evolution of the Canadian Constitution since the British North America Act 1867; the role of the Supreme Court in interpreting the Constitution as a ‘living tree’ capable of application...
