Employment relationship and politicisation: views of Malaysian civil servants working in Penang.
This paper examines the issue of the politicisation of public servant employment in the context of the Malaysian public service. Based on a survey of the Administrative and Diplomatic Service (ADS) officers--the elite civil service--the papers suggests that the employment aspects of the ADS officers is not as 'non-political'...

Tort au canadien: a proposal for Canadian tort legislation on gross violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.
ABSTRACT Despite Canada's strong rhetoric on the protection of human rights, Canada lacks a meaningful tort scheme for gross human rights violations akin to that of the United States. This Article argues that legislation to facilitate tort suits for gross violations of international human rights and humanitarian...

Limitation of war and the pursuit of justice.
Are we seeing the signs of splits among American economic and political elites? Parts of the military are banging the drums, so too the Right, and defense contractors. But the full page, corporate ads in places like the New York Times do not call us to war. They talk...

The mystery of Ales: the argument that Alger Hiss was a WWII-era Soviet asset is flawed. New evidence points to someone else.
Nearly 60 years ago, Alger Hiss, a former high official in the U.S. State Department, was convicted of perjury and sentenced to prison on the grounds that he had lied about his role in a Soviet spy ring prior to World War II. The Hiss case became the most...

A mission for civilians: State Dept. launches corps for conflict prevention--but funding is tenuous.
Conflict prevention, typically low on the Bush administration's to-do list, got a boost this summer when the U.S. State Department announced it was launching the Civilian Response Corps. From diplomats to sewer engineers, Uncle Sam hopes to ready teams of civilians who could use their expertise in fields such...

Henrietta Fore to Lead U.S. Delegation to International Conference on Financing for Development in Qatar.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Henrietta Fore, Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will lead the U.S. government delegation to the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus in Doha, Qatar from...

Implementing AFRICOM.
Editor's Note: One of the Foreign Service's most experienced Africa specialists assesses the Pentagon's new Africa Command, what it is, what it will do, and how it will relate to American embassies and ambassadors on the continent. There will be issues, he finds, but they can be...

Trading with the enemy: British business and the law during the First World War.
After four months of the Great War, Sir Maurice Hankey, the Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, advised His Majesty's Government that "drastic means must be taken to prevent British subjects succumbing to the temptation of continuing their trade with [the enemy] ..."(1) The Home Office, concerned with criminal...

Managing alternate realities: 'autonomy' vs. 'relevance'? Engaging us foreign and security policies.
1. INTRODUCTION Canadian foreign policy circles continue to debate how much the need for a cooperative relationship with the United States on issues of central importance to Canada circumscribes Canada's security and foreign policy options. A related question addresses Canadian governments' capacity to influence American foreign and...

The foreign office and Anglo-Italian involvement in the Red Sea and Arabia, 1925-28.
This article examines Britain's response to Italy's forward policy in the Red Sea region during the mid-to-late 1920s. Previous examination and understanding of Anglo-Italian relations during this period has tended to focus on issues other than such concrete case studies, consequently failing to create a sense of the often...