Accession Number:

ADA516915

Title:

Congressional Resurgence and the Destabilization of US Foreign Policy

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT NY

Personal Author(s):

• Walker, Wallace E.

Report Date:

1988-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

15.0

Abstract:

This article will explain how Congress reasserted itself during the Vietnam War and thereafter. Essentially, I will argue that congressional reactions to the war itself were less significant than the statutes Congress imposed on the executive branch as a result of the Vietnam War. Those statutes have dramatically restrained the presidency in conducting national security affairs. The result of these laws is the domestication, the democratization, and the destabilization of national security policy making.

Descriptors:

• *FOREIGN POLICY
• *CONGRESS
• *INSTABILITY
• *VIETNAM WAR
• *MILITARY HISTORY
• PRESIDENT(UNITED STATES)
• NATIONAL SECURITY
• REPRINTS

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE