The U.S.-China bilateral relationship is one of the world's most important, touching on a wide range of issues including economics, global security...

In the Autumn of 2011, the Obama Administration issued a series of announcements indicating that the United States would be expanding and intensify...

The U.S. program of assistance to Afghanistan is intended to stabilize and strengthen the Afghan economic, social, political and security environme...

North Korea is a closely controlled society, and its regime has taken actions that threaten the United States and other United Nations member state...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of a variety of economic, political and social issues of Russia, as well as U.S. inv...

Arms control and nonproliferation efforts are two of the tools that have occasionally been used to implement U.S. national security strategy. Altho...

The United States has provided significant military and economic assistance to Egypt since the late 1970s. U.S. policy makers have routinely explai...

The U.S. Coast Guard is one of the five Armed Forces of the United States and the only military organisation within the Department of Homeland Secu...

This book presents a profile of the diverse membership of the 111th Congress. Statistical information is included on selected characteristics of Me...

The United States Constitution, as amended, is a complex legal document which sets out the structure of the federal government, the legal authoriti...

Terrorism in East Africa has remained a concern of the United States since 1998, when al Qaeda bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. As part...

The United States is committed to an open, secure, interoperable, and reliable Internet that enables prosperity, public safety, and the free flow o...

Over the years, Congress has authorised and the federal government has administered programs to provide food to the hungry and to other vulnerable ...

Energy tax policy in the United States has attempted to achieve two broad objectives. First, policymakers have sought to reduce oil import dependen...

This book provides an overview of the federal government agencies that participate in U.S. export promotion efforts, as well as the issues that the...

Farm businesses' debt-use decisions can affect their growth and survival, as well as the economic vitality of farm-dependent rural communities. Thu...

The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 serves as the cornerstone for the United States' foreign assistance policies and programs. Written, passed, and ...

Foreign assistance is a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another, given at least partly with the objective of benefiting the rec...

The foreign policy of the United States is the policy by which the United States interacts with foreign nations and sets standards of interaction f...

This book outlines the strategic framework to guide the activities of participants in homeland security towards a common end. A safe and secure hom...

The electrical grid in the US comprises all of the power plants generating electricity, together with the transmission and distribution lines and s...

In the United States, Congress authorises most of today's federally-funded innovation inducement prizes beginning with the 108th Congress. This boo...

The U.S. insular areas of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and three Freely Ass...

On July 22, 2014, the Senate Committee on Finance held a public hearing on the taxation of cross-border income. This book, prepared by the staff of...

This book examines U.S. involvement in various political, economic and social issues of Latin America. Topics discussed include U.S. Free Trade Agr...

This book provides an overview of U.S. led sanctions being imposed on Iran. There is broad international support for imposing progressively strict ...

The National Strategy for the Arctic Region sets forth the United States Government's strategic priorities for the Arctic region. This strategy is ...

Under existing law (Atomic Energy Act of 1954), all significant U.S. nuclear co-operation with other countries requires a peaceful nuclear co-opera...

The Bush Administration conducted a review of US nuclear weapons force posture during its first year in office. Although the review sought to adjus...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of U.S. economic, political and trade relations with Africa. Topics discussed includ...

This book presents and discusses various economic policies in North America. Topics discussed include the Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program and...

Recently, the USPS has experienced significant financial challenges. After running modest profits from 2004 through 2006, the USPS lost $5.3 billio...

In October 2010, Hofstra University hosted a symposium evaluating American presidential leadership at the United Nations (UN) from 1945 to the pres...

This book examines current proposals in the 112th Congress relating to tax reform. The President and leading members of Congress have stated that f...

As the rules of global Internet develop and evolve, digital trade has risen in prominence on the global trade and economic agenda, but multilateral...

This book discusses developments in the United States' exports and imports of professional services, with a focus on education, healthcare, and leg...

The conventional wisdom is that the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001 prompted a substantive change in U.S. immigration policy on visa issua...

Congress enacted the Wilderness Act in 1964. This act created the National Wilderness Preservation System, reserved to Congress the authority to de...

This book provides an overview of recent developments in the U.S.-China trade and economic relationship. The role of state-owned enterprises in Chi...

U.S.-India engagement on shared security interests is a topic of interest to the U.S. Congress, where there is considerable support for a deepened ...

There has been a recent increase in the level of drug trafficking-related violence within and between the drug trafficking organisations in Mexico....

The offshore areas of the Gulf of Mexico provide a setting for domestic and international energy production, U.S. military training and border oper...

The final text of the proposed U.S.-Panama FTA incorporates specific amendments on key issues at the behest of congressional leadership. The most s...

With the end of the Cold War, a popular parlour game in foreign ministries, think tanks, and academia has been to develop a theory of international...

This book provides readers with accessible and thought-provoking commentary, teamed with newspaper accounts and personal anecdotes. The book is amp...

The path that brought us here as a species is not only filled with lies and deception of unimaginable proportion, but also with continuous manipula...