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...

As part of its mission, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through its U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) component, is to secure U.S...

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...

In this book, the author finds that current counter-terrorism strategies have yielded limited results in addressing the threat posed by terrorist g...

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...