The law: unilaterally shaping U.S. national security policy: the role of National Security Directives.
The president has at his disposal an array of tools to prescribe policy for the executive branch and, in some instances, to effect policy change unilaterally. These include executive orders, proclamations, memoranda, executive agreements, signing statements, and National Security Directives (NSDs). The legal authority for all the...

Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations.
Religion & Security: The New Nexus in International Relations. Edited by Robert A. Seiple and Dennis R. Hoover. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Little field Publishers, 2004. 198 pp. $22.95. While many books have addressed the role that religion plays in international relations, Religion & Security: The New...

Senate warns against ignoring subpoenas; Governors urge senators to end 'Hello Garci' probe Villar asked to compel presence of witnesses.
Byline: MARIO B. CASAYURAN The Senate yesterday warned persons who refuse subpoenas to appear before any of its committees, particularly on the controversial "Hello Garci" wiretapping scandal, that they could be cited for contempt and placed under its custody. Senate Majority Leader Francis Pangilinan advised...

Miriam: President can still invoke executive privilege.
Byline: HANNAH L. TORREGOZA President Arroyo may still validly invoke the constitutional doctrine of executive privilege to prevent executive and military officials from testifying at the coming Senate investigation on the "Hello, Garci" wiretapping this Friday, Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago yesterday said. Santiago said this...

Canada, a land of deep ambivalence: understanding the Divergent response to US primacy after 9/11.
1. INTRODUCTION This paper examines the Canadian response to the terrorist attacks on the US on September 11, 2001 (hereafter referred to as 9 /11), and the US policy and institutional changes that ensued as well. These changes are potentially profound in terms of both domestic and...

Malaysia-Singapore relations: retrospect and prospect.
Introduction This article on Malaysia--Singapore bilateral relations proceeds on the assumption that the key issues involved are better analysed and evaluated within the framework of political realism. Indeed, Sheldon Simon, an American specialist on Southeast Asia, offers a pertinent observation: "Realism (or self-help) will continue as an...

Vietnam's ASEAN membership revisited: golden opportunity or golden cage?
In early 1991 I conducted a series of interviews in Jakarta with senior government officials and scholars on their perception of Indonesia's role in ASEAN. This was the twilight period between the end of the Cold War and an emerging new international order that had yet to take shape....

Behind Bush's Kyoto sellout. (Inside Report).
The Bush administration's unfolding sellout on "global warming" has been covered extensively in these pages. In his July 22nd column, Washington correspondent Robert Novak offers critical details about the role played by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and the Council on Foreign Relations in that sellout. Asked...

The United States and coalition building in the new international order.
Abstract In the new international order of the post-Cold War, post-9/11 world, the United States, now the hyperpower of the world, has embarked upon a unilateralist policy in defense of its national security interests. Such an approach is flawed in the new international order, as American military...

Confronting a CRISIS: clipping Clinton's encryption policies.
In October 1993, then - Deputy Secretary of Defense William Perry said government policy makers "have to recognize that we don't have any ability to control computers which are available on the mass retail markets." Unfortunately, other senior Clinton administration officials disagree. They have used Cold War-era regulations to equate...