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...