Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 352
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Trim: 7¼ x 10¼
978-1-5381-0402-6 • Hardback • July 2018 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-5381-0403-3 • Paperback • July 2018 • $59.00 • (£45.00)
H. L. Pohlman is Professor of Political Science; A. Lee Fritschler Professor of Public Policy at Dickinson College. He previously served as Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, DC.
Chapter One:
| Introduction
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Chapter Two:
| The Right to Make War—Jus ad Bellum
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Chapter Three:
| The Laws of War--Jus in Bello
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Chapter Four:
| Combatant Status
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Chapter Five:
| Torture and Interrogation
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Chapter Six:
| Military Commissions
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Chapter Seven:
| Covert Action
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Chapter Eight:
| Targeted Killing
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Chapter Nine:
| Electronic Surveillance
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Chapter Ten:
| Cyber War
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Pohlman highlights the importance of U.S. national security in today¹s turbulent world, but he does so without losing sight of the fundamental fact that civil liberties and human rights are legal principles at the core of what America stands for.
— Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, New York Law School and Former President, American Civil Liberties Union, 1991-2008
For those trying to understand the complicated development of national security law, this book may represent the perfect means. Each chapter combines the substantive heft of primary documents with narrative explanation whose easy exposition disguises impressive erudition. In short, Pohlman has gracefully translated the courtroom to the classroom.— Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College
H. L. Pohlman’s U.S. National Security Law is a comprehensive, clear, and engaging approach to an important aspect of foreign policy. The volume deftly integrates legal analysis with political realities, and nicely situates the United States’s legal and political issues within the broader international legal and political environments.— Matthew Zierler, James Madison College
- A clear and prominent theme regarding international law integrates all the readings into a coherent whole.
- Focuses on the key issues of U.S. national security law, those that are most relevant to undergraduate students.
- Each chapter is composed of core readings bearing upon the topic.
- Each chapter ends with a discussion of contemporary national-security challenges.
- Each chapter has a historical orientation that gives students the opportunity to consider today’s national-security challenges with the benefits of insights inherited from earlier generations.
- The core readings of each chapter are linked together by the editor’s commentary, which enables the student to appreciate each reading in context.
- Each core reading is immediately followed by the editor’s set of provocative questions.
- The subject matter of the text is challenging, but it is readable and accessible.