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This book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and to those interested in the Naval History of the Second World War, particularly after the USA's entry. Also of interest is the late Prince Philip's introduction in which he says "This volume of his papers shows just what an important contribution he made to the national war effort." The Triumph of Allied Sea Power, 1942-46 in the second volume printed on The Cunningham Papers. Following America’s entry into World War Two, there was a necessity for the Royal Navy to strengthen co-operation with the United States Navy. Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s brief term as head of the British Admiralty Delegation in Washington was to endear him to the Americans so much so that they proposed him as Allied Naval Commander of the Expeditionary Force which was to invade North Africa in November 1942. In October 1943, Cunningham was summoned to replace the dying Pound as First Sea Lord, a position he held until his retirement from active service in June 1946. In that time he presided over the invasion of Normandy, operations in the Mediterranean, the sinking of the Scharnhorst and Tirpitz, the defeat of the late surge of U-boat activity, the British Pacific Fleet, and the problems of manpower, the futures of the Royal Marines and the Fleet Air Arm, and the conversion of the Royal Navy from its swollen wartime strength to a much-reduced peacetime cadre.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Admirals --- Naval operations, British. --- Cunningham of Hyndhope, Andrew Browne Cunningham, --- Great Britain --- History, Naval --- Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham. --- Admiralty. --- Australia. --- Canada. --- D Eisenhower. --- Fleet Air Arm. --- France. --- Franklin Roosevelt. --- Germany. --- Italy. --- Mediterranean. --- Naval Aviation. --- Royal Navy. --- Second World War. --- Sir D Pound. --- Sir J Somerville. --- United States of America. --- Warships. --- Winston Churchill. --- merchant shipping. --- submarines.

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Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war? War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that question. But its structure and values indicate a vision of a well-functioning constitutional politics, one that enables the branches of government themselves to generate good answers to this question for the circumstances of their own times. Mariah Zeisberg shows that what matters is not that the branches enact the same constitutional settlement for all conditions, but instead how well they bring their distinctive governing capacities to bear on their interpretive work in context. Because the branches legitimately approach constitutional questions in different ways, interpretive conflicts between them can sometimes indicate a successful rather than deficient interpretive politics. Zeisberg argues for a set of distinctive constitutional standards for evaluating the branches and their relationship to one another, and she demonstrates how observers and officials can use those standards to evaluate the branches' constitutional politics. With cases ranging from the Mexican War and World War II to the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Iran-Contra scandal, War Powers reinterprets central controversies of war powers scholarship and advances a new way of evaluating the constitutional behavior of officials outside of the judiciary.

Separation of powers --- War and emergency powers --- History. --- American presidents. --- Cambodia. --- Cold War. --- Congress. --- Cuban Missile Crisis. --- Franklin Roosevelt. --- Iran-Contra Investigation. --- James Polk. --- John F. Kennedy. --- Mexican War. --- Munitions Investigation. --- Richard Nixon. --- Roosevelt Corollary. --- U.S. Constitution. --- World War II. --- bombing. --- constitutional authority. --- constitutional interpretation. --- constitutional politics. --- constitutional theory. --- constitutional war powers. --- insularism. --- interbranch deliberation. --- interpretive politics. --- investigatory power. --- legislative investigation. --- legislature. --- partisanship. --- presidential acts. --- relational conception. --- security order. --- settlement theory. --- war authority. --- war power. --- war powers. --- United States --- History

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Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the empire business began, how American foreign policy became increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the United States from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will and power to continue. Noel Maurer examines the ways that American investors initially influenced their government to intercede to protect investments in locations such as Central America and the Caribbean. Costs were small--at least at the outset--but with each incremental step, American policy became increasingly entangled with the goals of those they were backing, making disengagement more difficult. Maurer discusses how, all the way through the 1970s, the United States not only failed to resist pressure to defend American investments, but also remained unsuccessful at altering internal institutions of other countries in order to make property rights secure in the absence of active American involvement. Foreign nations expropriated American investments, but in almost every case the U.S. government's employment of economic sanctions or covert action obtained market value or more in compensation--despite the growing strategic risks. The advent of institutions focusing on international arbitration finally gave the executive branch a credible political excuse not to act. Maurer cautions that these institutions are now under strain and that a collapse might open the empire trap once more. With shrewd and timely analysis, this book considers American patterns of foreign intervention and the nation's changing role as an imperial power.

Right of property --- Americans --- American property --- Investments, American --- Imperialism --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- American investments --- Property, American --- Alien property --- Americans in foreign countries --- Ownership of property --- Private ownership of property, Right of --- Private property, Right of --- Property, Right of --- Property rights --- Right of private ownership of property --- Right of private property --- Right to property --- Civil rights --- Property --- History --- Law and legislation --- United States --- Foreign economic relations. --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- E-books --- Foreign property --- Investments, American - History - 20th century --- United States - Foreign economic relations --- United States - Foreign relations - 20th century --- United States - Politics and government - 20th century --- 1900 imbroglio. --- American advisers. --- American court. --- American empire. --- American foreign policy. --- American government. --- American interests. --- American investments. --- American investors. --- American pressure. --- American property rights. --- American property. --- American protection. --- Calvin Coolidge. --- Caribbean. --- Central America. --- Cold War empire. --- Cold War. --- Communist expansion. --- Cuba. --- Democrats. --- Dominican Republic. --- Eisenhower. --- European court. --- Franklin Roosevelt. --- Great Depression. --- Herbert Hoover. --- Kennedy expansion. --- Latin America. --- Latin American governments. --- Liberia. --- McKinley administration. --- Philippines. --- Second World War. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet bloc. --- Theodore Roosevelt. --- U.S. economy. --- U.S. foreign investors. --- U.S. government. --- U.S. territory. --- United States. --- Warren Harding. --- West Africa. --- Woodrow Wilson. --- aid programs. --- anti-imperialism. --- anti-imperialists. --- arbitration judgments. --- circum-Caribbean. --- communist expansion. --- creditors. --- direct investors. --- domestic political costs. --- economic interventionism. --- empire trap. --- fair compensation. --- fiscal receiverships. --- foreign aid. --- foreign debt. --- foreign government. --- foreign governments. --- foreign nations. --- human rights. --- imperial expansion. --- imperialism. --- international tribunals. --- intervention policy. --- interventionism. --- national integrity. --- nonintervention. --- political innovations. --- political instability. --- political stability. --- politicized confrontations. --- pre-Depression era. --- private investors. --- property rights. --- republican administrations. --- sovereign immunity. --- trade controls. --- Politics and government.