宣战与美国的胜利:寻求有效的承诺

IF 0.2 Q4 LAW
Slade Mendenhall
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摘要本文认为,正式宣战的行为需要美国政治行为者的明确承诺,这增加了失败的成本,并促使政治家将交战进行到底,以实现合同或制度承诺工具的作用。它认为,没有这种手段的不宣而战,更有可能以不那么果断和对美国不利的方式结束。在此基础上,它解释了美国几十年来长期、不成功和优柔寡断的军事接触趋势的出现,这是由于宪法规定的关于发起和管理外国军事冲突的三权分立受到侵蚀而产生的。为了捍卫这一理论,它使用案例研究来评估其预测的相关性,并权衡涉及选择偏见和不完全信息的潜在反对意见。
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Declared War and American Victory: A Search for Effective Commitment
Abstract This Article argues that the act of formally declaring war entails a measure of explicit commitment on the part of American political actors that raises the cost of failure and motivates politicians to see engagements through to a decisive end, fulfilling the role of a contract or institutional commitment device. It argues that undeclared conflicts, lacking such a device, are more likely to end on less decisive and less favorable terms to the United States. On this basis, it explains the emergence of a decades-long trend of protracted, unsuccessful, and indecisive military engagements by the United States as having emerged from the erosion of a constitutionally established separation of powers with respect to the initiation and administration of foreign military conflicts. In defense of this theory, it uses case studies to assess the relevance of its predictions and to weigh potential objections involving selection bias and imperfect information.
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期刊介绍: The British Journal of American Legal Studies is a scholarly journal which publishes articles of interest to the Anglo-American legal community. Submissions are invited from academics and practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic on all aspects of constitutional law having relevance to the United States, including human rights, legal and political theory, socio-legal studies and legal history. International, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives are particularly welcome. All submissions will be peer-refereed through anonymous referee processes.
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