On the day of the meeting [September 4, 2001], Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note. He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present. The 'real question' before the principals, he wrote, was 'are we serious about dealing with the al-Qida threat?...Is al-Qida a big deal?...Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day when the CSG has not succeeded in stopping a…
Rescuing Science from Politics debuts chapters by the nation's leading academics in law, science, and philosophy who explore ways that the law can be abused by special interests to intrude on the way scientists conduct research. The high stakes and adversarial features of regulation create the worst possible climate for the honest production and use of science especially by those who will ultim…
The author's duty as head of the Office of Legal Counsel was to advise President Bush what he could and could not do...legally. The author took the job in October 2003 and began to review the work of his predecessors. Their opinions were the legal framework governing the conduct of the military and intelligence agencies in the war on terror, and he found many—especially those regulating the t…
This book countains: the development of seabed politics until 1958, the first and second United Nations conferences on the law of the sea, etc.
Extradition is the formal surrender of a person by a state to another State for prosecution or punishment. Extradition to or from the United States is a creature of treaty. The United States has extradition treaties with over a hundred nations, although there are many countries with which it has no extradition treaty. International terrorism and drug trafficking have made extradition an increas…
This study of a very important part of the Law of the Sea addresses the problem of lack of access to the sea's resources and to the seabed. The author critically examines the rights and protections afforded to land-locked and geographically disadvantaged states under the power of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. At the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, …
This book examines America's economy over the past several decades and the sources of our recent success and comes to surprising conclusions about what we can learn from it.
In this book the daughter of the former leader of China offers an intimate account of her fathers life, with particular emphasis on recounting the dramatic story of Chinas Cultural Revolution as seen through his eyes and experiences. Transporting readers to the front lines of the Revolution and its aftermath, Madame Rong paints a very candid and compelling portrait of this turbulent era, along …
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knows the harsh street life. He overcame a barely unusual start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history—Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm—but history hitherto known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happ…
Colin Powell adalah perwujudan impian Amerika. Ia dilahirkan di Harlem oleh orang tua imigran dari Jamaika. Dia tahu kehidupan jalanan yang keras. Dia mengatasi awal yang nyaris tidak biasa di sekolah. Kemudian dia bergabung dengan Angkatan Darat. Sisanya adalah sejarah Vietnam, Pentagon, Panama, Badai Gurun, tetapi sejarah yang sampai sekarang hanya diketahui di permukaan. Di sini, untuk perta…