The metaphor is the key: cryptography, the Clipper Chip, and the Constitution.
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 712 I. MODERN CRYPTOGRAPHY: PRIVATE SECURITY, GOVERNMENT INSECURITY 718 A. Who Needs Cryptography? 718 1. Banks, ATM-Users, Electronic Transactors 719 2. Businesses with Commercial and Trade Secrets 722 3. Professionals...

A Unified Security Budget for the United States.
Executive Summary Since September 11, 2001, the question of how to provide for our security has loomed large over our national life. Many of the Bush administration's answers to this question have come under intense challenge---from the doctrine of preventive war to the development of new designs...

The military instrument in South African foreign policy: a preliminary exploration.
ABSTRACT In the contemporary international system it is often contended that the utility of military means is decreasing. In addition, conventional wisdom has it that the military instrument is only to be used when other instruments have failed. Practice, however, indicates that the military instrument is much...

Jim Crow's Coming Out: Race Relations and American Foreign Policy in the Truman Years.
The struggles for racial equality in the United States and in the world system that characterized the entire cold war era accelerated sharply during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. The domestic civil rights movement and what might be called the "international civil rights movement" of anticolonialism moved on...

Toward facilitating a voice for politically marginalized minorities and enhancing presidential public accountability and transparency in foreign health policymaking.
ABSTRACT Residents of underdeveloped countries who belong to ethnic, racial, sexual, and political minorities usually endure relatively ineffective political voices. More than any other world population segment, these marginalized people are vulnerable to, and suffer from, compromised health and life expectancies. Their immense human tolls have spawned...

Sovereign impunity.
Today all branches of America's national government--legislative, executive, and judicial--act with near impunity. Constitutional limits on the government's power have been eroded, institutional checks and balances rendered largely nugatory. Yet many who value liberty profess optimism. Surely the next Congress, the next president, the next executive agency heads, or...

Meddling with the Mullahs: an analysis of the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996.
"As the dominant power, [the United States] can afford to add the legitimizing carrot of negotiations to the punitive stick of sanctions."(1) I. INTRODUCTION On August 5, 1996, President William J. Clinton signed the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 into law.(2) This statute,...

Aerospace & Defense News - Defense North America.
Jun 23, 2008 The US Air Force Research Laboratory is launching the second phase of a program aimed at demonstrating the ability to refuel unmanned aircraft in flight. It is looking for an integrator to develop and demonstrate the capability for boom and receptacle refueling of UAVs...

Progress of inter-Korean relations; (1st of 2 Parts).
Byline: Fidel V. Ramos BECAUSE of the critical importance to the Philippines of the developments on the Korean Peninsula in terms of their security and economic implications, this column has closely followed the progress of inter-Korean relations. While most Filipinos may not consider this an urgent issue...

Commentary: not a just war, just a war - NATO's humanitarian bombing mission.
Introduction Over the last year, nightly news reports filled our TV screens with cruise missiles surgically targeted on the Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yugoslavia. Zero casualties, "war lite," "immaculate coercion," punish and get out. But NATO's "humanitarian bombing" of Kosovo, a province of Serbia (the dominant republic...