This book identifies, describes, and provides access information 250 publicly accessible sites that commemorate the life and legacy of the first pr...

Jan Aagaard and Lars Erslev Andersen discuss the evolution of the global terrorist landscape during the past three decades. The most profound devel...

With the death of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, Andrew Johnson was plunged into a national political morass. Johnson, a Southern Democrat and ...

Welcome to the world of miniature books! Experience the true meaning of a miniature book. It is not just about the size! These books will impress y...

Independent federal agencies are subject to the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA). Because they fall outside of presidential authority, however, ind...

Federal agencies regularly adopt rules, which have the force of law, to implement the statutes and programs authorised by Congress. Unless a statut...

India is the world's twelfth largest economy at market exchange rates and the third largest in purchasing power. Economic reforms have transformed ...

India is a multi-party, federal, parliamentary democracy with a bicameral parliament. The president, elected by an electoral college, is the chief ...

This book first highlights the environmental conditions of Uttarakhand such as relief, structure, drainage, climatic conditions and forest types, a...

This book examines the service sector growth of both India and Malaysia. India's service sector has grown rapidly since the 1990s. Domestic demand ...

Long considered a "strategic backwater" from Washington's perspective, South Asia has emerged in the 21st century as increasingly vital to core U.S...

This book provides a framework for understanding India's involvement in both Africa and Afghanistan. Indo-African ties are long standing, arising f...

As the world's third largest economy, India is an important trade and economic partner for the United States. The visit by recently elected Prime M...

India and Pakistan have been in a state of persistent conflict that goes back to the very creation of these states after decolonization. This confl...

In 2010, Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J Vilsack directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of Tribal Relations and the USDA's F...

This book is a directory of Tribal Leaders of the United States, issued by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, which has been...

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

Nearly three years after the fall of Suharto, Indonesia is still experiencing the birth pangs of democracy. As a result, it displays all the charac...

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 ...

This volume deals with one of the most understudied aspects of everyday life in Russian society. Its main heroes are the providers of goods and ser...

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...

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...