Browsing SIS 495 Task Force by Issue Date
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U.S. Next Steps in Afghanistan
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U.S. Relations with Russia: Obama-Medvedev Bilateral Presidential Commission
(2011)The US and Russia have a history of acting in roles of global competitors. However this is not necessary, what’s more is it is in neither of our interests. Eager to move beyond obsolete and irrelevant souvenir challenges ... -
Show Me the Money: Achieving Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights through Government Budgets
(2011)This Task Force focuses on examining and elaborating on the possibilities of implementation of three specific obligations outlined in Article 2 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) ... -
The Future of U.S. Democracy Promotion: Strategies for a Sustainable Fourth Wave of Democratization
(2011)U.S. democracy promotion has come under scrutiny in the last two decades. The recent third wave of democratization in the 1990s and 2000s has come to an end, leading to a shift towards authoritarianism. Meanwhile, American ... -
Melting Boundaries: Rethinking Arctic Governance
(2011)Global warming has triggered fundamental ecological changes to the Arctic landscape. As the sea ice melts, greater access to lucrative natural resources and new shipping lanes is intensifying economic and political interest ... -
Countering al-Qaeda’s Ideology: Re-assessing U.S. Policy Ten Years After 9/11
(2011)The U.S. has made sweeping changes to its national defense strategic goals and objectives since 9/11. In response to the rise in prominence of al-Qaeda and it‘s extremist ideology, the U.S. established the Department of ... -
Rethinking US Policy Towards North Korea
(2011)Negotiations between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have failed. The United States has engaged the DPRK through a multitude of approaches with some success, though they have all ultimately ... -
Asia's Emerging Nuclear Era: Climate Strategies & Implications for U.S. Policy
(2011)Earth‘s climate is changing rapidly. Two centuries of burning fossil fuels have increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This has led to elevated mean near-surface temperatures, ...