Book contents
- Reimagining The National Security State
- Reimagining The National Security State
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- A Note from the Editor
- Part I The National Security State in Perspective
- Part II Tracking the Decline of Liberalism
- 4 The National Security State Gone Awry: Returning to First Principles
- 5 The Illiberal Experiment: How Guantánamo Became a Defining American Institution
- 6 National Security and Court Deference: Ramifications and Worrying Trends
- 7 The Zealotry of “Terrorism”
- 8 Reimagining the National Security State: Illusions and Constraints
- Part III The Future Imagined
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
4 - The National Security State Gone Awry: Returning to First Principles
from Part II - Tracking the Decline of Liberalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2019
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Book contents
- Reimagining The National Security State
- Reimagining The National Security State
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- A Note from the Editor
- Part I The National Security State in Perspective
- Part II Tracking the Decline of Liberalism
- 4 The National Security State Gone Awry: Returning to First Principles
- 5 The Illiberal Experiment: How Guantánamo Became a Defining American Institution
- 6 National Security and Court Deference: Ramifications and Worrying Trends
- 7 The Zealotry of “Terrorism”
- 8 Reimagining the National Security State: Illusions and Constraints
- Part III The Future Imagined
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Focusing on three powers, Loch K. Johnson discusses the toll the rise on the national security state has taken on the intelligence community, the presidency, and the Congress. Providing a comparison of the transformation of these powers under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, Johnson chronicles the suspension of founding constitutional principles and asks whether it is possible to return to first principles on any of these fronts.
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- Reimagining the National Security StateLiberalism on the Brink, pp. 37 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019