Coming Soon Constitutional War Powers: Law & Strategy from the Revolution to Cyberconflict

Administrative / Constitutional Law

Constitutional War Powers: Law & Strategy from the Revolution to Cyberconflict

By Matthew C. Waxman
Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available November 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009869836
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
November 2026
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Many believe that the power to start wars is the most important issue of constitutional war powers-and perhaps the most important issue of constitutional law altogether. Yet this fixation on the power to start wars obscures equally important questions. Who has the power to prepare for war, deter it, conduct it, decide its aims, or end it? Although many democracies wrestle with these constitutional questions, the United States stands apart in that no other written constitution has had to function over time across such dramatic transformations in national military power and radical swings in strategy for wielding it. To show the many ways that political leaders have adapted law-in war, in peace, and in the gray zones between-this book weaves together the stories of American constitutional war powers, military history, and grand strategy from the Revolutionary War to possible conflicts of the future.

This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Table of Contents

1. Revolutionary War Powers and the Constitutional Blueprint
2. War Powers in the Early Republic
3. War Powers and American Expansion
4. Civil War: War Powers of Necessity
5. War Powers and American Empire
6. The Constitution and Total War
7. A Constitution for Neutrality, Global War, and World Peace
8. War Powers for Cold War
9. Nuclear War Powers and Covert War Powers
10. Vietnam and Its Constitutional Aftermath
11. Constitutional Powers for Cold War Victory and New World Order
12. War Powers for Terror Threats
13. Conclusions and War Powers for the Future
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