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Product Description: When Barack Obama came into office, the strategic landscape facing the United States in its overseas counterterrorism operations was undergoing a shift. Even before the rise of drones necessitated the articulation of legal doctrine, the Obama administration had to explain itself...read more

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9780817916541 | Hoover Inst Pr, May 1, 2015, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: When Barack Obama came into office, the strategic landscape facing the United States in its overseas counterterrorism operations was undergoing a shift.

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Product Description: "Our current stalemate over detention serves nobody―not the military or any other component of the U.S. government that has to operate overseas.... It is a system that no rational combination of values or strategic considerations would have produced; it could have emerged only as a consequence of a clash of interests that produced a clear victory for nobody...read more

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9780815725459 | Brookings Inst Pr, February 28, 2014, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "Our current stalemate over detention serves nobody―not the military or any other component of the U.

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By Benjamin Wittes (editor)

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9780815722120 | Brookings Inst Pr, December 5, 2011, cover price $29.95

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9780815724506 | Brookings Inst Pr, March 21, 2013, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy is an indispensable guide to the questions facing White House hopefuls in 2012, as well as the challenges awaiting the winner. It presents authoritative analyses of a dozen key policy issues currently testing the nation:-domestic economic growth-America's role in the world-the budget deficit-China relations-health care-Afghanistan and Pakistan-federalism-Iran-reforming government institutions-the Middle East-climate change-terrorismThis is truly Brookings at its best—independent expert analysis, presented in an accessible manner and offering viable solutions...read more
By Benjamin Wittes (editor)

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9780815721987 | 1 edition (Brookings Inst Pr, May 17, 2012), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy is an indispensable guide to the questions facing White House hopefuls in 2012, as well as the challenges awaiting the winner.

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Product Description: The events of September 11 and subsequent American actions irrevocably changed the political, military, and legal landscapes of U.S. national security. Predictably, many of the changes were controversial, and abuses were revealed...read more
By Benjamin Wittes (editor)

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9780815703105 | Brookings Inst Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The events of September 11 and subsequent American actions irrevocably changed the political, military, and legal landscapes of U.

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Product Description: Just in time for the first Supreme Court confirmation of the Obama administration, one of America's most insightful legal commentators updates the critically acclaimed Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times to place the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the context of the changing nature of judicial nominations by recent presidents...read more

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9780742551442 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 30, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In Confirmation Wars, Benjamin Wittes rejects the parodies offered by both the Right and Left of the decline of the process by which the United States Senate confirms―or rejects―the president's nominees to the federal judiciary.

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9781442201545 | Updated edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 30, 2009), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Just in time for the first Supreme Court confirmation of the Obama administration, one of America's most insightful legal commentators updates the critically acclaimed Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times to place the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the context of the changing nature of judicial nominations by recent presidents.
9780742551459 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, October 30, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In Confirmation Wars, Benjamin Wittes rejects the parodies offered by both the Right and Left of the decline of the process by which the United States Senate confirms_or rejects_the presidentOs nominees to the federal judiciary.

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9781594201790 | Penguin Pr, June 19, 2008, cover price $25.95

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9780143115328 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 26, 2009), cover price $20.00

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Product Description: How is Kenneth Starr's extraordinary term as independent counsel to be understood? Was he a partisan warrior out to get the Clintons, or a saviour of the Republic? An unstoppable menace, an unethical lawyer, or a sex-obsessed Puritan striving to enforce a right-wing social morality? This volume is designed to offer an evaluation and critique of Starr's tenure as independent counsel...read more

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9780300092523 | Yale Univ Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: How is Kenneth Starr's extraordinary term as independent counsel to be understood?

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