William E Scheuerman explains why Obama’s mediocre humanitarian record in the “war on terror” deserves our critical scrutiny. And how US presidential government’s latent monarchist attributes have generated far-reaching policy and legal continuities between Bush and Obama.
William E. Scheuerman
is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indian University, Bloomington. He is the author of The Realist Case for Global Reform, Polity (2011).