TERRORISM: COMMENTARY ON SECURITY DOCUMENTS VOLUME 116: Assessing President Obama's National Security Strategy

Lovelace Jr., Douglas

ISBN 10: 0199758247 / ISBN 13: 9780199758241

Published by OUP USA, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TERRORISM: COMMENTARY ON SECURITY DOCUMENTS VOLUME 116: Assessing President Obama's National Security Strategy
• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199758247
• ISBN 13: 9780199758241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Volume 116 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Assessing President Obama's National Security Strategy extends the previous volumes on the Administration's national security policy by highlighting its specific strategies. The volume provides an assessment of the Quadrennial Defense Review and the Obama Administration's strategy on preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. It also includes assessments of the Administration's position on states' rights in controlling illegal aliens, the Department of State's foreign operations, and the Afghanistan strategy. Finally, documents assessing the relationship of terrorism to criminality and weapons of mass destruction nonproliferation strategy for Iran are also provided. The documents and assessments in this volume help readers identify the challenges of implementing a national security strategy.

About the Author

Douglas Lovelace is the Director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College. Earlier in his military career, he worked on national security directives. He holds an MBA degree from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and a JD from Widener School of Law.

Kristen E. Boon is Director of International Programs at Seton Hall University School of Law. Her writings have appeared in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and the New York University Journal of International Law. A former clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada's Justice Ian Binnie, she holds an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Aziz Huq teaches at the University of Chicago Law School and was recently Director of the Liberty and National Security Project at NYU Law School's Brennan Center. He previously clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and served as Senior Consultant Analyst for the International Crisis Group.