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Hand-Off details the Bush administration's national security and foreign policy as described at the time in then-classified Transition Memoranda prepared by the National Security Council experts who advised President Bush.

Provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.

The days of rapid economic growth in China are over. Mounting debt and rising internal distortions mean that rebalancing is inevitable. Beijing has no choice but to take significant steps to restructure its economy. This title debunks the lingering bullish expectations for China's economic rise and details Beijing's options.

Identifies the factors that make some hybrid actors persistent and successful, as measured by longevity, influence, and ability to project power militarily as well as politically. This report finds that three factors correlate most closely with impact: constituent loyalty, resilient state relationships, and coherent ideology.

By design, the scope of Behavioral Science & Policy is broad, with topics spanning health care, financial decision-making, energy and the environment, education and culture, justice and ethics, and work place practices.

This book provides an economic assessment of the Bush administrations past and ongoing drive for tax cuts. William Gale and Peter Orszag, noted scholars in tax policy, provide historical context for the administrations tax policy and examine its effect on both short- and long-term economic growth.

Updated through the first term of President George W. Bush, the latest edition of this classic work analyses how each US president since Lyndon Johnson has dealt with the complex challenge of Arab-Israeli peacemaking. The book helps to situate the current Middle East crisis in historical context and point to some possible ways out of the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians.

Explains why ad hoc machinery would function more effectively in the Bretton Woods system. By describing in detail the origins and operations of the London Club and Paris Club, Lex Rieffel highlights the pragmatism and flexibility associated with ad hoc approaches. He also recalls earlier proposals for creating permanent debt restructuring machinery and the reasons why they were not adopted.

In October 2002 the United States confronted North Korea with suspicions that Pyongyang was enriching uranium in violation of the Agreed Framework that the nations had worked out during the Clinton administration.

Some of today's best urban leaders don't work for the government -they can be found in nonprofit organizations that serve the working class and poor populations.

In Alliance Curse , Hilton Root illustrates that recent U.S. foreign policy is too often misguided, resulting in misdirected foreign aid and alliances that stunt political and economic development among partner regimes, leaving America on the wrong side of change.

As recently as thirty years ago, Americans lived in a financial world that today seems distant. Investment and borrowing choices were meager: virtually all transactions were conducted in cash or by check.

The suggestions featured in this report seek to intensify a broader and more comprehensive transatlantic partnership. The most important departure from present US policy is the report's emphasis on drawing Europe much further into a global strategic partnership with the United States.

Responding to the critical need of policymakers, and practitioners for current research on Indonesia, this text focuses on four areas: the economy; religion and ethnicitiy; civil society; and the military. A concluding chapter covers the International Monetary Fund and US policy towards Indonesia.

This is an overview of the process of "redefining" the US-Japan alliance. It presents four specific case studies, including the impact of macroeconomic and trade frictions on the alliance and the effect on the functions of the alliance of the suspicions about North Korea's nuclear programme.