The United Nations (UN) is an international organisation whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international secur...

During the 113th Congress, the Senate might consider providing its advice and consent to ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Perso...

Members of Congress continue to demonstrate an ongoing interest in the efficiency and effectiveness of United Nations (U.N.) development activities...

The United Nations (UN) aims at facilitating co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity. Ha...

The United Nations has fought an uphill battle since its formation in 1945. One General Secretary after another has fought unruly members, the tend...

The UN General Assembly has expressed concerns about the relatively large and growing portion of the UN budget spent on total compensation. The Uni...

Since its establishment in 1945, the United Nations has undergone numerous reforms as international stakeholders seek ways to improve the efficienc...

This book explores the primary issues and organising principles that define the United States-Third World relations in the New World Order. This bo...

This book looks at the research that the Non-proliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) commissioned and vetted throughout 2006. For at least hal...

This book examines the strategic risk posed by a smaller and restructured Army; the "health" of the Army given the impending downsizing; the draw-d...

The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary is the volunteer organization of the United States Coast Guard. In that role they support the United States...

Following terrorist attacks against the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983, the U.S. Department of State began an embassy construction progra...

Four major principles underlie current U.S. policy on permanent immigration: the reunification of families, the admission of immigrants with needed...

The signing of the Maastricht treaty created economic structure and institutions, and set in motion the process of adopting a common currency. The ...

No country in the history of the world has more readily, or more fruitfully, embraced innovation through science and technology than the United Sta...

Created in 1787, the United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representat...

United States-Israeli Relations

This book examines the significance, prospects, and policy options of U.S.-Japan economic relations. Japan and the United States are the two larges...

The overall themes of this book are past and present changes in European co-operation. Two such changes were at the top of the agenda in the summer...

Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the respon...

ISIS started as rebels under the US occupation of Iraq. They grew by ravaging Libya and Syria. Their backers are Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and they ...

Dennis Altman’s long obsession with the United States began when he went there as a graduate student during Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency. His early ...

This book begins with an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. It provides an analysis of the patterns of urbanisation which are essentia...

The USA Patriot Act passed in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. It flows from a consultation draft circulated by the Department of Ju...

The US Patriot Act, one of the most controversial laws of our time, consists of ten titles which, among other things: give federal law enforcement ...

This book lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its armed forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential c...

This book addresses the question: How can democracy and governance be made more accountable to diverse groups of people within nested regions? How ...

This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use o...

This edition of Utilitarianism supplements the text of Mill's classic essay with 58 related remarks carefully selected from Mill's other writings, ...

This edition of Utilitarianism supplements the text of Mill's classic essay with 58 related remarks carefully selected from Mill's other writings, ...

Continuity of operations at Department of Defense (DOD) installations is vital to supporting the department's missions, and the disruption of utili...

Wootton's translation brings out the liveliness of More's work and offers an accurate and reliable version of a masterpiece of social theory. His e...

Wootton's translation brings out the liveliness of More's work and offers an accurate and reliable version of a masterpiece of social theory. His e...

Paradoxically, contemporary horrors like ethnic cleansing are deeply rooted in humanity's highest aspirations, which have given rise to countless s...

Uzbekistan gained independence at the end of 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union. The landlocked country is a potential Central Asian regiona...

Vagabonding Through Changing Germany is an account of the author’s travels in Germany in 1919, a few months after World War I. The author highlight...