McCain rolls the dice.
Byline: The Register-Guard Only time - 65 days to be exact - will tell if John McCain's selection of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate was a master stroke or massive blunder. The traditional litmus test for vice presidential candidates is that...

Human security and East Asia: in the beginning.
Security is the absence of anxiety upon which the fulfilled life depends. --Cicero In the pantheon of new security concepts debated in East Asia in the past decade, human security is perhaps the most controversial. It is based on the idea that the individual or...

The shadow war.
"There is always a possibility that a secret police may become a menace to flee government and free institutions because it carries with it the possibility of abuses of power which are not always quickly apprehended or understood." --The Church Committee Report, 19767 (1) The...

Learning strategic depth: implications of Turkey's new foreign policy doctrine *.
Turkey stands at the threshold of all major trends within its neighborhood and is actively seeking to harness the assets that its geography and historical experiences afford it. As a staunch ally of the United States which has traditionally privileged its "strategic partnership," Turkey's global role has shifted from...

TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY AND JERUSALEM: TOWARD A SOCIETAL CONSTRUCTION OF FOREIGN POLICY.
Stones, figs and Mount Olive And the ever-betrayed al-Quds hold their breath and listen to the sound of David reciting the psalms of intifada (Berdal Aral) THERE ARE A FAIRLY LIMITED NUMBER of studies dealing with Turkish Foreign Policy from a theoretical and historical background. [1] Analyses...

The "Sole Organ" before the Court: Presidential Power in Foreign Policy Cases, 1790-1996.
Few substantive areas have merited as little empirical scrutiny as the Supreme Court's decisions on the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. The Court's edicts on diverse domestic policy issues such as civil rights and liberties(1) and economic regulations(2) have been given a considerable degree of social science analysis, yet...

The state and the federal courts in governance: vive la difference!
I. ARE STATE COURTS MINOR FORMS OF UNITED STATES COURTS? What is common to state and federal courts is easy to see--so easy that many lawyers, judges, and academics assume that federal formulas for review of official actions equally apply to state law. (1) The point of...

East-West arms control and the fall of the USSR, 1967-1994: radical change or expedient accommodation?
Traditionally, international affairs focus mostly on the complex interrelationship between states at the regional and global levels. Regardless of their actual or perceived national power and size, states tend to coexist more or less peacefully and engage in different degrees of economic and trade cooperation. And when international cooperation or...

Kosovo, war powers, and the multilateral future.
INTRODUCTION Aside from getting himself impeached but not removed, President William J. Clinton's most noteworthy impact on the Constitution has been in the area of war powers. In March 1999, President Clinton ordered 31,000 American servicemen and women to engage in air operations against Serbia, the largest...

Malaysia's national security: rhetoric and substance.
Introduction Security is an ambiguous concept. It has different meanings for different people, including decision-makers who formulate national policies. (1) Thus, the question "What is national security?" opens the floodgates of contending opinions. Generally speaking, national security refers to a package of values that are deemed worthy...