With the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), many observers are making a fresh assessment of where...

International trade is a critical component of the U.S. economy, with U.S. merchandise imports and exports amounting to $2.2 trillion and $1.5 tril...

The individual states have been the primary regulators of insurance since 1868. Following the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act, this system has operated ...

According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, in a given year there are approximately 1,290,000 medically treated injuries in football, 1...

A well-integrated, national biosurveillance enterprise is a national security imperative. The United States' ability to detect quickly and characte...

In the aftermath of the information sharing failures leading to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New Yor...

This book examines the national security and preparedness issues, developments and analyses facing the U.S. today. Topics discussed include the nat...

This book reviews the current state of the U.S. market for natural disaster insurance and offers a high level overview of natural catastrophes, ins...

Media stories about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance pertain to the unauthorised disclosures of two different intelligence collection pr...

Congress has seen a renewed interest in the market for private health insurance since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...

Due to the dialectical analysis of fundamental economic categories, the market economy appears as a complex, nonlinear, functionally closed (but ca...

CHIP is a joint federal-state program that finances health insurance for over 8 million children. Since the program's inception, the percentage of ...

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a means-tested program that provides health coverage to targeted low-income children and pr...

Chapter 1 analyses recent changes to state Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs. Two categories of UC state law issues are considered: (1) chang...

The U.S. economy is dependent on the expeditious flow of millions of tons of cargo each day. Cargo containers are an important instrument of global...

Prior to the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, insurers generally did not exclude or separately charge for coverage of terrori...

The United States is concurrently pursuing the goals of reducing the size of its nuclear weapons force -- strategic and non-strategic, deployed and...

Since 2005, the number of countries that acquired an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system nearly doubled from about 40 to more than 75. In addition...