Congress and national security policy: Changing and varied roles for a shared responsibility
Titel:
Congress and national security policy: Changing and varied roles for a shared responsibility
Auteur:
Kaier, Frederick M.
Verschenen in:
Comparative strategy
Paginering:
Jaargang 9 (1990) nr. 1 pagina's 67-84
Jaar:
1990
Inhoud:
The Constitution issues an “invitation to struggle” to Congress and the President in making national security policy, because of each branch's competing formal powers and rival political power. The result is a system of checks and balances for a shared responsibility. Under it, Congress has adopted a variety of roles: a ratifier of executive-led policies, a modifier of them, an ad hoc overseer, and an initiator and leader in its own right. This article explores these roles, mapping out some of the reasons for their adoption along with the different paths that Congress can take to direct or guide the national security establishment, presidential power in this field, and ultimately public policy. An earlier version of this paper was prepared for delivery at the National Defense University Symposium on “The National Security Process: The Making of National Strategy for the 1990s and Beyond,” Washington, DC, December 1-2, 1988. The views expressed herein are those of the author and are attributable to no other source.
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