The basic elements of this book involve integrating five policy problems, and four fields of knowledge. The five policy problems are economic, tech...

Trade has increased as a share of the economy for several years, but U.S. companies can face difficulties competing in foreign markets when countri...

Because of concerns about increasing restrictions on religious rights around the world, Congress passed the International Religious Freedom Act of ...

World events since late 2013 have led some observers to conclude that the international security environment is undergoing a shift from the familia...

Currently, scholars and political leaders are facing various global challenges: failing states, conflicts over distribution, terrorism and the refu...

International Social Security agreements are bilateral agreements primarily intended to eliminate dual Social Security taxation based on the same w...

The aim of this monograph is to provide a comprehensive overview on the International HRM in Central and Eastern Europe supported by qualitative re...

The exercise of the judicial power of the United States often requires courts to construe statutes in applying them in particular cases and controv...

For citizens of the United States, for social studies teachers, for historians in America, and literally around the world, there is no more interes...

Political sociology is fundamentally interdisciplinary, combining theories and empirical insights from disciplines such as sociology, political sci...

Congressional investigations have a special role in the history and the life of our government. In addition to informing Congress, so as to best ac...

Iran presents a hyper dilemma for the Bush Administration. On the one hand, the power players seem to want to invade Iran to halt any nuclear weapo...

Much of the debate over U.S. policy toward Iran has centered on the nature of the current regime; some believe that Iran, a country of about 70 mil...

Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, the United States and Iran have been estranged and at odds. During the 1980s and 1990s, U.S. official...

The Western media, in particular, has cast Iran variously as an outlaw country or an outcast but seldom as a normal country, as least since the dem...

This book on human rights practices chronicles dramatic changes and the stories of the people defending human rights in the countries of Iran and I...

On 14 July 2015, Iran and the six powers that have negotiated with Iran about its nuclear program since 2006 (the United States, the United Kingdom...

This book describes: (1) U.S. sanctions targeting Iran and their implementation, (2) the reported impact of the sanctions, and (3) factors that aff...

Iran's nuclear program has generated widespread concern that Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons. Tehran's construction of gas centrifuge uranium en...

Iran's foreign policy is the product of many, and sometimes competing, factors: the ideology of Iran's Islamic revolution; Iranian leadership's per...

Why does Iranian acquisition of ballistic missiles or Iran's pursuit of a space launch capability matter, especially to the Congress? For decades, ...

Operation Iraqi Freedom overthrew Saddam Hussein's regime, but much of Iraq remains violent because of Sunni Arab resentment and a related insurgen...

The United States seeks an Iraq that is sovereign, stable, and self-reliant; an Iraqi Government that is just, representative, and accountable; nei...

This book presents and discusses a variety of economic and political issues in Iraq, as well as Iraq's political relationship with Iran and the Uni...