This book addresses the instances where bad actors extort money from innocent parties under the pretense of asserting intellectual property rights....

Each year, tens of thousands of aliens in the United States apply for asylum, which provides refuge to those who have been persecuted or fear perse...

Recent international negotiations and domestic policy developments have generated interest in current and projected U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emiss...

The process by which lower federal court judges are nominated by the President and considered by the Senate has, in recent decades, been of continu...

In the nearly 25 years since the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 authorised federal officials to implement a national asset forfeiture prog...

Chapter 1 reports on the U.S. drug supply and the complex way it is interwoven with multiple stakeholders involved in each step of the process. Whe...

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Export Enforcement arm of BIS protects U.S. national se...

Partner countries of free trade agreements (FTA) that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) selected -- the Dominican Republic-Central America...

This book provides a review on the supply and demand projections and federal planning efforts in the U.S. health care workforce, which includes pri...

Military health care professionals serve in a variety of settings, more diverse than is typically found in the civilian environment. The Military H...

This book provides background information and presents potential issues for Congress concerning the Navy‘s ship force-structure goals and shipbuild...

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

Congressional interest in patent reform has increased as the patent system becomes more significant to U.S. industry. Patent ownership is perceived...

Congress designed the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to be a self-supporting government agency. Since 1971, the agency has not relied upon annual appro...

Many congressional policy makers have maintained an ongoing interest in the adequacy of the number of U.S. scientists and engineers required to add...

Emerging trends indicate that the pace of economic espionage and trade secret theft against U.S. corporations is accelerating. There appears to be ...

Since 2012, there has been a rapid increase in the number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) apprehended at the U.S.-Mexican border. According t...

The "Great Recession" and the ensuing weak recovery have led the Federal Reserve (Fed) to re-evaluate its monetary policy. Since December 2008, ove...

Indigenous self-determination is the recognised right of all peoples to freely determine their political status, and pursue their economic, social ...

The States Parties to this Convention, prompted by the desire to settle, in a spirit of mutual understanding and co-operation, all issues relating ...

Book & CD-ROM. The United States Secret Service (USSS) is tasked with a zero-failure mission: to protect the President and other protectees at ...