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This study follows the expansion of the powers of the executive branch in the realm of foreign policy over the course of American history. Showing how and why the Presidency has so greatly increased its powers, it argues that political compromise and structural reform are the best ways to redress the current imbalance of powers.

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• Introduction
• 1 Constitutional Interpretation and Foreign Policy
• 2 A New Interpretation Evolves: Executive Prerogative in Foreign Policy
• 3 Why Statues Don't Work: Congress Strikes Back, and Makes it Worse
• 4 Political Solutions to a Political Problem: Incentives to Rebalance Power.
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography

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CHOICE Review

In nine well-documented chapters (some taken from his dissertation), the author (Dartmouth) traces the evolution of the constitutional interpretation of US foreign policy from the traditional interpretation to the appearance of the executive prerogative interpretation (presidents Jefferson and Lincoln through Bush and Clinton). Prior to WW II, vertical separation of powers (state versus federal) was the dominant view; thereafter, focus shifted to horizontal separation (executive-legislative-judicial) within the federal government. The emergence of nuclear weapons and the prolonged Cold War mandated extensive centralization of power in the White House. Attempts by Congress to reassert authority over foreign affairs in the 1970s and 1980s (the high point of which was the War Powers Resolution, 1973) made the imbalance even worse (cf. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s The Imperial Presidency, CH, Apr'74). The imbalance, instigated and assented to by both parties and by Congress and the executive, has been legitimated by a series of Supreme Court decisions since the two world wars. Silverstein suggests a "recrafting of constitutional interpretation in American foreign policy," or building a new interpretation of foreign policy on a reinterpretation of the traditional approach that would make specific restrictions in the Constitution inviolable, or reexamining the executive with the goal of reducing the imbalance of powers. Highly recommended for college, university, and law libraries, upper-division undergraduate through faculty. C. G. Hess Lander University