Source material: the truth is out there: the recently released NSC institutional files of the Nixon presidency.
This article reviews the recent release of material concerning the National Security Council by the Nixon presidential material staff in NARA. The new collection covers a wide array of issues relating not only to the structural and procedural developments of the council during the Nixon-Kissinger years, but also to...

Prevention of computer crime amidst international anarchy.
I. INTRODUCTION In confronting the rising phenomenon of computer crime, strategies that focus solely on increasing the effectiveness of prosecution will inevitably fail. A legal framework that relies on uniform global substantive law in conjunction with increased international coordination among law enforcement organizations across the globe to...

Courting and containing the Arab street: Arab public opinion, the Middle East and U.S. public diplomacy.
IN THE AFTERMATH OF SEPTEMBER 11, the Arab street became a subject of renewed interest and increased relevance. With the rise and virulence of anti-Americanism in the Arab and Muslim world threatening to undermine the foreign policy of the United States in a region that is vital to its...

Confronting the garrison state: South Carolina in the early Cold War era.
IN 1950 THE HINTERLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA BECAME THE CROSSROADS of the Cold War. In January of that year, President Harry S. Truman, in response to public and private pressure, announced that he had ordered the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to continue to develop "all forms of atomic weapons,...

Broadening Philippine-Australia defence relations in the post 9/11 era: issues and prospects.
September 11 and the Spectre of Terrorism Since the terrorist Bali bombings in October 2002, Australia has been initiating various strategic initiatives to strengthen its web of bilateral defence relations in Southeast Asia. Canberra has signed an anti-terrorism agreement with Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, the...

Dangerous supplements, inventive dissent, and military critiques of the Bush administration's unitary executive theories.
Our strength as a nation will continue to be challenged by those who employ a strategy of the weak, using international fora, judicial process, and terrorism. (Department of Defense 2005, 5) [T]he invasion of Iraq [was] an unnecessary war.... I now regret that I did not more openly challenge...

The last word: presidential power and the role of signing statements.
The presidential bill signing statement is one of many devices that contemporary presidents have developed for use against a recalcitrant Congress, joining with the executive order, memoranda, proclamations, pocket vetoes, and primary unilateral policy devices, to name but a few (Barilleaux 1989; Cooper 2002; Mayer 2001; Spitzer 2006). ...

Australian appellate court upholds dismissal of United States as third-party defendant, finding that mutual cooperation agreement between U.S. and Nauru was mainly political not commercial, thus rendering U.S. immune from suit under Australian state immunity statute.
Wells Fargo Bank Northwest, National Assn. (Fargo), a Utah company, filed suit in an Australian [provincial] court to repossess a Boeing 737-400 aircraft from the Nauru Aircraft Corporation (NAC). Fargo was acting as the security trustee for the mortgagee of the plane, the Export Import Bank (Eximbank), an agency...

Covert action and its contemporary status in the United States of America and the Republic of South Africa.
ABSTRACT Covert action was an acceptable alternative to warfare during the Cold War. The end of the Cold War redefined the world as it was previously perceived, with the result that the need for intelligence services and the use of covert action were questioned. New threats also...

Statement by President Bush.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by President Bush: Today I have signed into law S. 2370, the "Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006." The Act is designed to promote the development of democratic institutions in areas under the administrative control of the Palestinian...