While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers

Nearly five hundred times in the past century, American presidents have deployed the nation's military abroad, on missions ranging from embassy evacuations to full-scale wars. The question of whether Congress has effectively limited the president's power to do so has generally met with a resounding "no." In While Dangers Gather, William Howell and Jon Pevehouse reach a very different conclusion.


The authors--one an American politics scholar, the other an international relations scholar--pro...