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<p>Author of the landmark study The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry offers a stunning and original analysis of the “claim of emergency.”</p>For sixty years, modern democratic governments have undermined democracy and increased executive power by invoking the idea of emergency. They have bypassed constitutional provisions concerning presidential succession, the declaration of war, the use of torture, civilian surveillance, and the arrangements for nuclear weapons. In the desire for swift national act
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- Author
- Scarry, Elaine
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393340587
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Social Science, Political Science, History
- Rating
- 3.49 / 5 (69 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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