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...A new ASAT policy seems appropriate as the US faces an entirely new, but uncertain, threat with the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the rise of a multipolar world. Analyzing the ASAT debate from the past and the dynamics of the e...

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...SOPHISTICATION OF THE ASAT CONTROVERSY . . . . 17 Soviets Initiate an ASAT Program . . . . . . 17 Revitalizing the US ASAT—The Carter “Two-Track” Policy . . . . . 18 Soviet Initiatives—And the Reagan Response . . . 20 Soviet Satellites—How Threatening Are They . . . 21 Our Growing Dependence on Satellites . . . 22 Congress Prevails—Constraining the US ASAT . . . . ...

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...010 Final Assessment of Second Trade Facilitation Action Plan (TFAP II) APEC Policy Support Unit October 2011 ... ... Prepared by: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Policy Support Unit Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat ... ...ense, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/sg/. The APEC Policy Support Unit would like to express appreciation to all contr... ...usion of APEC’s Second Trade Facilitation Action Plan (TFAP II) in 2010, the APEC Policy Support Unit (PSU) conducted the Final Assessment of TFAP II... ...ernments and central banks responded with unprecedented fiscal stimulus, monetary policy expansion and institutional bailouts. The beginning of 20... ...he TFAP II period. 15 APEC Policy Support Unit (2009). 16 A list of the KPIs recommended dur... ...report “Aggregate Measurement of Trade Transaction Costs in APEC 2007-2010” [APEC Policy Support Unit (2011a)]. 18 Trade transaction costs in econo... ...6.7% Note: Figures are the simple average of all 21 APEC economies. Source: APEC Policy Support Unit (2011a). By aggregating these results across... ... 20 To allow for an assessment of how policy changes have affected such costs, the impact of any other p...

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...The SCE met all of its commitments outlined in its annual work-plan. Its key achievements include the creation of three new groups: the Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy, the Ocean and Fisheries Working Group, and the APEC Experts’ Group on Illegal Logging and Associated Trade. A new Policy Partnership on Food Security was also created by APEC Senio...

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...an assurance so they do not perceive the need to develop nuclear weapons arsenals for themselves. This study explores the impact of US nuclear weapon policy on the current and future effectiveness of extended nuclear deterrence for the Republic of Turkey. It concludes that the credibility of US extended nuclear deterrence for Turkey depends on many factors and not just the...

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.... . .51 Addressing Credibility Elements . . . .51 Adding Weight: Preventing Tipping . . . .58 Summary and Conclusions . . . .61 5 CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS . .65 Conclusions . . . . .65 Policy Implications . . . .68 APPENDIX: US-TURKISH RELATIONS TIMELINE POST-WWII . . . . .71 ABBREVIATIONS . . . . .83 BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . .85...

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...A showcase cropped up during the financial crisis of 2008 and its aftershock including the debt crisis in Southern Europe. In response to the fiasco, policymakers round the world wasted trillions of dollars worth of public funds on makeshift schemes that ended up hobbling the financial forum and the real economy. Upon closer inspection, however, the epic blowup was a c...

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...The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our Eastern Empire, and is specially interesting at the present time, when military operations on a considerable scale...

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...Interagency Fratricide: Policy Failures in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors that affected both interagency processes and policy outcomes during the Persian Gulf War (1990–91) and the early stages of the ...

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...NATION WITHIN A BUREAUCRATIC ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . 3 Interagency Decision Making via Negotiation. . . . . . . . . . 5 The Efficacy of the Policy-Making Process . . 14 Outline of the Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Implications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2 RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY: INDIVIDUAL AND GROU...

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...The present investigation has as purpose to develop a victimological policy, directed to the population, of the Municipality of Metepec, State of Mexico, part of three postulates as they are the social construction of the fear, the social imaginary and the social action before the victimals ac...

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...t link through the role of propaganda in each. A historical analysis of propaganda in past wars yields lessons which can be applied to formulating PA policy on IW today. In light of the evidence, three possible options emerge regarding the possible IW roles PA might adopt. Option One—a “Hands Off” policy—seeks to avoid any association with IW and represents the current PA ...

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...In Preventing Catastrophe: US Policy Options for Management of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia, Lt Col Martin J. “Marty” Wojtysiak, USAF, proposes a response to the dangerous proliferation of nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan. This paper highlights the ...

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...d and manage their emotional States assertively. The need for prevention of anti-social behaviour from the school, has not generated a criminological policy adequate, at best, apply only palliatives which little or nothing they work by a lack of vision and social commitment. Education is not valid only based on the teaching of curriculum content knowledge, criminological p...

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...ed view of social and political change and the strategic implications those changes might have on international relations and, specifically, military policy and planning. It is my hope that this research will give policy makers and planners cause to consider carefully the important underlying cultural factors that inevitably influence the strategic goals and behaviors of n...

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...In “The National Guard Citizen-Soldier,” Col Mark P. Meyer provides an excellent examination of the linkage between responsible national security policy and the will of the people. He argues that for our democratic government to act responsibly, it is imperative that national policy reflects the will of the people. It is especially important when the policy involves th...

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... Trade Facilitation through Customs Procedures: Assessment of APEC’s Progress APEC Policy Support Unit October 2011 ... ...obal Level 1, 34 Queen Street; Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 Australia Akhmad Bayhaqi Policy Support Unit Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secret... ...to thank Tammy L. Hredzak, Carlos Kuriyama, Denis Hew and Azul Ogazón Gómez of the APEC Policy Support Unit for their helpful comments. We are also ... .................................................................................... 49 C. POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS ......................................... ...I actions, the findings of the report make clear some gaps to be addressed. The general policy recommendations are as follows. (a) APEC should ad... ...Annual Ministerial Meeting that year. C. THE INTERIM ASSESSMENT OF TFAP II In 2010 the Policy Support Unit (PSU) presented its Report on the Interim... ...was unable to determine how much of the reduction in trade transaction costs was due to policy changes generally, let alone how much was a consequen... ...res actions and measures on trade transaction costs over the same period; and provide policy recommendations in the light of the results that were ... ...aken to complete all the formalities associated with merchandise trade. iv. Impact of policy and administrative changes Changes in customs clearan...