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...

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...

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 introduces us to his life story which is equally as fascinating as that of other who make a political virtue of their humble origins. In ...

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 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...

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...

The term "government data" includes diverse categories of government information products, such as information published by government agencies for...

Long-term fiscal problems, which were exacerbated by the recession that ended in June 2009, resulted in widespread concern about the need to formul...

Openness is fundamental to representative government. The basic premise of transparency is that it increases the opportunity for responsive, respon...

Under the populist rule of President Hugo Chávez, first elected in 1998 and most recently re-elected to a six-year term in December 2006, Venezuela...

This book explores the current state of Venezuelan politics and relations with the United States. Under the populist rule of President Hugo Chávez,...

This book profiles Venezuela with a focus foreign relations and human rights issues. Under the rule of populist President Hugo Chavez, first electe...

While historically the United States has had close relations with Venezuela, a major oil supplier, friction in bilateral relations rose under the l...

The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on March 5th 2013 after 14 years of populist rule, has implications not only for Venezuela’s politica...

This book provides current research on the social, economic and environmental issues in Venezuela. Chapter One reviews the patrimonial state under ...