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Examines three enemy combatant cases that represent the leading edge of US efforts to devise legal rules, consistent with American constitutional principles, for waging the global war on terror. The distinguished contributors analyse the crucial questions these cases raise about the balance between national security and civil liberties and call for a reexamination of the complex connections between the Constitution and international law.

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Examines three enemy combatant cases that represent the leading edge of US efforts to devise legal rules, consistent with American constitutional principles, for waging the global war on terror. The distinguished contributors analyse the crucial questions these cases raise about the balance between national security and civil liberties and call for a reexamination of the complex connections between the Constitution and international law.
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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. At Hoover, he chairs the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law and cochairs the Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society. He studies and writes about, among other things, constitutional government, conservatism and progressivism in America, liberal education, national security and law, and Middle East politics. He holds a JD and a PhD in political science from Yale University; an MA in philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and a BA in English literature from Swarthmore College.