As a region with abundant resources and rapidly growing transit potential surrounded by nuclear-armed powers, Central Asia is increasingly drawing ...

Text in Arabic. In 2017, the prominent Qatari diplomat Dr. Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari was named a candidate for the post of Director-General of ...

Persistent weaknesses at 24 federal agencies illustrate the challenges they face in effectively applying information security policies and practice...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

Under the Constitution of the United States, the President is responsible for prosecuting war and directing the armed military conflicts, including...

An "inherently governmental function" is one that, as a matter of law and policy, must be performed by federal government employees and cannot be c...

Innovative contracting case studies is an iterative, evolving document that describes a number of ways Federal agencies are getting more innovation...

This book analyses the regulatory regimes that are now having their day of dominance. The traditional ideal of democracy as governance by the peopl...

The fascinating first-hand account by a top defector of the ruthlessness, spy intrigues and curious personalities of the Third Reich. A unique and ...

This book explores ten technological, social, and economic trends in the United States and globally that are serving to increase opportunity and mo...

Since 2010, the United States has suffered grave damage to national security and an increased risk to the lives of U.S. personnel due to unauthoris...

This book is a compilation of government reports from 2018 and 2019 on secrecy and information policies and procedures. The first 49-page report is...

Globalisation has impacted the world with a seemingly inextricable linkage among all countries on this planet. This publication provides an intelli...

This book is a compilation of CRS reports on the intelligence community. Congress’s and the American public’s ability to oversee and understand how...

Congress passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, P.L.97-200 in 1982. The Act, as amended,1 is codified at 50USC §§ 421-426. Under 50USC ...

Proposals for the reorganisation of the United States Intelligence Community have repeatedly emerged from commissions and committees created by eit...

Co-operation among western European states in the period after World War II has followed two paths. A traditional intergovernmental path demanding ...

The annual consideration of appropriations bills (regular, continuing, and supplemental) by Congress is part of a complex set of budget processes t...

Since the 2011 U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, sectarian divisions have widened, fuelling a revival of a Sunni Muslim insurgent challenge to Iraq's stab...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reduces the average delivery time frame for emergency food aid by prepositioning food domesti...

For more than 50 years, the United States, which accounts for about half of global food aid supplies, has played an important role in alleviating m...

This book examines the local and regional procurement for U.S. international emergency food aid. Using federally appropriated funds to procure comm...

From their classical origins in the natural law theory of Greek and Roman philosophers and jurists to natural rights culminating in the American an...