OPEC from myth to reality.
I. INTRODUCTION--THE IMPORTANCE OF ENERGY SECURITY, RESOURCE DIPLOMACY, AND THE MAIN CHANGES IN NEARLY HALF A CENTURY OF OPEC'S FORMATION A. Energy Dependency, Foreign Policy, and the U.S. Example B. Some of the Major Changes in the Oil and Gas Industry Since OPEC's Formation C. Oil and Gas Will...

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WHO SPEAKS FOR AMERICA? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy by Eric Alterman Cornell University Press, $25 Elitism in the fashioning of foreign policy, a fact of life for much of 20th century American politics and even an active goal of Walter Lippman's cohort, is now generally...

South Africa's post-1994 military relations with the Mercosur countries: prospects and challenges *.
ABSTRACT The formation of Mercosur/Mercosul in 1991 coincided with the changing political dispensation in South Africa and the end of the Cold War. The coincidence is particularly important in the sense that South Africa's foreign policy options expanded in scope and that the newly-democratised South Africa was...

National security law in the post-9-11 world: a survey of recent legal materials.
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The Founders and the president's authority over foreign affairs.
The conventional wisdom in recent scholarship is that the President exercises far greater power over foreign affairs than the Constitution authorizes. "The unmistakable trend toward executive domination of U.S. foreign affairs in the past sixty years represents a dramatic departure from the basic scheme of the Constitution.... The president...

Operation Iraqi freedom: legal and policy considerations.
On the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom, I was asked by Dr. Laurie Mylroie to write a 5,000-word legal defense of the campaign to remove Saddam Hussein from power by force to appear in a new book she was writing. (1) It took me 15,000 words to even summarize...

Basilan rescue delay deplored.
Byline: FERDIE J. MAGLALANG President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo lamented yesterday the continued delay in the planned rescue of an American couple and a Filipino nurse from the hands of the Abu Sayyaf bandits due to the resistance in some quarters to the presence of American troops in...

Congress goes to court: the past, present, and future of legislator standing.
The phenomenon of litigation directly between Congress and the President concerning their respective constitutional powers and prerogatives is a recent one. It was unknown through more than a century and three quarters of our jurisprudence.... -- Judge Robert Bork (1) I. INTRODUCTION On...

Dimensions International Names Five Distinguished Members to Board of Directors.
Blue-Ribbon Board Includes Earle Williams; Haley Barbour; Leonard S. Coleman, Jr.; General Crosbie Edgerton Saint; And Dr. Belle S. Wheelan ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Dimensions International, Inc., a leading information technology company that helps the nation's top corporations and...

Integrity, prestige needed for DFA post.
ON July 15, if the search team is unable to present its choice from an "index of excellence" for the position of Secretary of Foreign Affairs, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo need not take over the highest-ranking office in her own Cabinet as it may deflect her full attention from...