The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair

by Harold Hongju Koh

Book Overview

Was the Iran-Contra affair caused by executive lawlessness or legislative folly? Or did it result instead from structural defects in our national security decision-making system? In this important book, Harold Hongju Koh argues that the affair was not aberrational but symptomatic of a chronic dysfunction in America's foreign policy process. Combining practical knowledge of government with insights from law, history, and political science, Koh presents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300044933
• ISBN13: 9780300044935
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.2"