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UNINA9910455403703321 |
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Weinberger Seth Harold <1970-> |
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Restoring the balance [[electronic resource] ] : war powers in an age of terror / / Seth Weinberger |
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Santa Barbara, Calif., : ABC-CLIO, c2009 |
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1-282-34158-8 |
9786612341588 |
0-313-36040-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (196 p.) |
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War and emergency powers - United States |
Terrorism - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and index. |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Upsetting the Balance; 2. The Meaning of the Declare War Clause; 3. The Deployment of the Armed Forces and Initiation of Hostilities; 4. Domestic Warrantless Surveillance by the National Security Agency; 5. The Detention and Trials of Suspected Terrorists; 6. Restoring the Balance; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Since 9/11, one of the most dominant issues in American politics has been: what exactly is a war on terror and who is in charge of it? Previous books on this topic have fallen off the horse on either side: on the right, making military actions under the Bush administration equal to previous declared wars and ceding too much war-making power to the presidency or on the left, requiring congressional approval for any national security steps at all, contradicting much of American historical precedent. Weinberger presents a novel understanding of the Declare War clause of the Constitution (Article |
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UNINA9910452810903321 |
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Against the grain : Jewish intellectuals in hard times / / edited by Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman, and Richard I. Cohen |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CohenRichard I |
HoffmanStefani |
MendelsohnEzra |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence |
Jews, East European - Germany |
Intellectuals - Political aspects - Germany - History - 20th century |
Political culture - Germany - History - 20th century |
Jews - Germany - Intellectual life |
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Germany Ethnic relations |
Germany Intellectual life 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographies and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Part I. Strauss, Scholem, Arendt, Benjamin -- Part II. Political positioning in hard times -- Part III. Brothers and strangers: the issue of identity -- Part IV. In the shadow of the Holocaust. |
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Highlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewish world, this volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. Several of German Jewry's most outstanding figures such as Scholem, Strauss, and Kohn are discussed. Inspired by Steven E. Aschheim's work, several contributors focus on the fraught relationship between German and East European Jews (the so-called Ostjuden) and betwe |
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