Polish Prime Minister arrives in Manila for 2-day state visit.
Byline: GENALYN D. KABILING Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka makes a historic two-day state visit in Manila today to boost trade and security cooperation with the Philippines. Belka is the first Polish leader to visit Manila since diplomatic relations were established in September 1973. His...

Send me your money: controlling international terrorism by restricting fundraising in the United States.
I. INTRODUCTION Policy relating to international terrorism has long been a hotly debated issue in the United States.(1) While virtually everyone would agree that terrorism is bad, few agree whether to bargain with terrorists, how to punish terrorists, or even who qualifies as a terrorist.(2) ...

Transnational Christian charity: the Canadian Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, and the Hungarian refugee crisis, 1956-1957.
Canada's response to the 1956-1957 Hungarian refugee crisis has generally been treated by scholars as a highpoint in Canadian immigration history. In late October 1956, pro-democracy, anti-Soviet demonstrations directed at the Soviet-backed government of Erno Gero broke out in Budapest. Fearing that its control of the Warsaw Pact was...

The Spying Game.
Mr. Rodman, an NR senior editor, is director of national-security programs at the Nixon Center. The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America-The Stalin Era, by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev (Random House, 382 pp., $30) Inundated by new Cold War scholarship based on liberated Soviet-bloc...

"When in Rome" comparing Canadian and Mexican strategies for influencing policy outcomes in the United States.
The United States is both very strong, in the sense that it towers over the rest of the world in virtually every measure of state capability, and very weak, in the sense that its policy-making process is extraordinarily fragmented and susceptible to external influences (Krasner, 1978). This combination of...

The sources of Pakistan's insecurity.
PAKISTAN today is at critical crossroads and many crucial issues that will determine the future of Pakistan have come to the fore. Forty persons were killed and over 200 others were injured in different parts of Karachi on 12 May, when the attempt of Justice Iftikhar Ahmed Chaudhry, the...

Stealth invasion: working through its consulates in the United States, the Mexican government is waging a war of subversion against our nation--with the silent complicity of Washington.
"It breaks my heart to see what's happening here," lamented 47-year-old Utah native Alex Segura to THE NEW AMERICAN. For more than 10 years, Segura resided in California, watching in disbelief as large portions of that state were effectively reclaimed by Mexico through rampant illegal immigration. "Now I'm seeing...

Bush intensifies anti-Cuba campaign, but exiles say White House falls short.
George W. Bush is tougher on Cuba than any president since Ronald Reagan, and U.S.-Cuba relations are at their lowest point since Fidel Castro's 1996 shootdown of two Brothers to the Rescue planes. Yet while the White House campaign may block any congressional openings to Cuba and...

Intellectual on watch: James Eayrs and the study of foreign policy and international affairs.
The editors of the International Journal decided some time ago that they would like to recognize the extraordinary contribution of James Eayrs to the study of Canadian foreign policy and related subjects by devoting a special section of one of their issues to articles on questions related to the...

The United Nations and globalization: patterns and limits of institutional adaptation.
The United Nations has struggled with the challenges of globalization for several years, especially since the Asian financial crisis. It has paid particular attention to the needs of developing countries, deemed least well equipped to cope. All relevant parts of the UN system have been engaged, as well as...