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Fowler 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, New Jersey ;$aOxford, [England] :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (279 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-336-00974-8 311 $a0-691-15161-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tTables -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPART I. Information, Regular Order, and Democratic Accountability in International Affairs -- $tPART II. Oversight Hearings and Regular Order in U.S. Foreign Relations -- $tPART III. Reclaiming Congressional War Powers -- $tAPPENDIX A. Coding Congressional Committee Hearings -- $tAPPENDIX B. Description of Dependent and Independent Variables -- $tAPPENDIX C. Methodological Appendix to Chapter 3 -- $tAPPENDIX D. Methodological Appendix to Chapter 4 -- $tAPPENDIX E. Methodological Appendix to Chapter 5 -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aAn essential responsibility of the U.S. Congress is holding the president accountable for the conduct of foreign policy. In this in-depth look at formal oversight hearings by the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, Linda Fowler evaluates how the legislature's most visible and important watchdogs performed from the mid-twentieth century to the present. She finds a noticeable reduction in public and secret hearings since the mid-1990s and establishes that American foreign policy frequently violated basic conditions for democratic accountability. Committee scrutiny of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, she notes, fell below levels of oversight in prior major conflicts.Fowler attributes the drop in watchdog activity to growing disinterest among senators in committee work, biases among members who join the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, and motives that shield presidents, particularly Republicans, from public inquiry. Her detailed case studies of the Truman Doctrine, Vietnam War, Panama Canal Treaty, humanitarian mission in Somalia, and Iraq War illustrate the importance of oversight in generating the information citizens need to judge the president's national security policies. 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