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The Iran-Iraq War: Implications for U.S. Policy
Description:
This report discusses the Iran-Iraq conflict at its present state, which has become a war of attrition with neither side capable of achieving a decisive military victory over the other in the short term. U.S. policy concerns currently are threefold: first, that Iraq, despite moves to sustain its economic and military capacities, ultimately might suffer a destabilizing defeat to the detriment of U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf region; second, that future instability in Iran could open opportu…
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Date:
October 14, 1987
Creator:
Preece, Richard M.
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South Africa: U.S. Policy After Sanctions
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Date:
March 29, 1988
Creator:
Branaman, Brenda
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Iraq-Kuwait: U.N. Security Council Resolutions -- Texts and Votes
Description:
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 1-2, 1990, set into motion a series of actions by the United Nations Security Council. Between August 2 and December 4, 1990, the Council adopted 12 resolutions. The numbers and votes of those resolutions are listed and the full text of each resolution is included in the this report.
Date:
November 1, 1990
Creator:
Browne, Marjorie Ann
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Japan's World War II Reparations: A Fact Sheet
Description:
Japan's war reparations following World War II came in two stages. In the first, 1946-1949, U.S. and allied governments arranged for U.S. occupation authorities to ship about $160 million in Japanese industrial equipment to China, the Philippines, Indonesia, and the British colonies in East Asia.
Date:
March 7, 1991
Creator:
Niksch, Larry A.
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Iraq-Kuwait: United Nations Security Council Resolutions Test and Votes -- 1991
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This report lists the 12 adopted United Nations Security Council resolutions relating to the Iraq-Kuwait situation through October 1991. The texts of these resolutions, along with the votes by members of the Council, are included in this report.
Date:
October 25, 1991
Creator:
Browne, Marjorie Ann
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China/Asia Broadcasting: Proposals for New U.S. Surrogate Services
Description:
Two groups -- the President's Task Force on U.S. International Broadcasting (December 1991) and the Commission on Broadcasting to the People's Republic of China (September 1992) -- have both recommended that the United States increase broadcasting to China and other Communist countries in Asia, although the panels split on significant points for implementing their recommendations
Date:
October 1, 1992
Creator:
Hennes, David A
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Deforestation: An Overview of Global Programs and Agreements
Description:
In recent years, global environmental concerns have figured prominently on the American political agenda. In particular, tropical deforestation and its implications for global climate change and biological diversity loss have prompted public outcry. Concerns have since grown to include other forest types as well. The Congress has considered a variety of legislation to stem the tide of increasing deforestation and the United States has supported a number of bilateral and multilateral initiatives…
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Date:
October 21, 1992
Creator:
Lyke, Julie & Fletcher, Susan R.
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U.S.-Japanese Trade: The Semiconductor Arrangement
Description:
On June 4, 1991, the United States and Japan agreed to a five-year arrangement to open Japan,s market to U.S.-origin semiconductor devices, replacing a 1986 agreement that was due to expire. Unlike other U.S.-Japanese trade agreement, the U.S.-Japanese Semiconductor Arrangement stipulates a quantifiable objective (20 percent of the Japanese market for foreign-produced semiconductors). It is often identified by those who want the United States to undertake a "results-oriented" trade policy towar…
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Date:
May 13, 1993
Creator:
Cooper, William H.
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Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
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On August 27, 1993, Israel and the Palestinians announced that Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) official Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen) had initialed a landmark agreement on August 19 in Oslo, Norway on a Declaration of Principles on interim self-government for the West Bank and Gaza Strip. On September 9, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin exchanged letters unprecedented mutual recognition. On Septembe…
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Date:
September 17, 1993
Creator:
Migdalovitz, Carol
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Background to the Overthrow of President Aristide
Description:
This report provides background information on the violent and authoritarian traditions that have characterized Haiti's political dynamics since Haiti attained independence in 1804. It examines Haiti's difficult path toward democracy after the fall of the Duvalier regime, from numerous short-lived governments until the election of Aristide. Finally, the report also surveys Aristide's rule and his subsequent overthrow by the Haitian military.
Date:
October 22, 1993
Creator:
Taft-Morales, Maureen
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APEC - Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation: Free Trade and Other Issues
Description:
As a result of an initiative by Australia in 1989, the United States joined with eleven other Asia/Pacific nations in creating APEC, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization. This report discusses the annual Ministerial Meeting of APEC in Seattle, held from November 17 - 19, 1993.
Date:
November 10, 1993
Creator:
Nanto, Dick K.
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Regional Security Consultative Organizations in East Asia and Their Implications for the United States
Description:
In the uncertain security environment of the post-Cold War world,
the Clinton Administration has expressed interest in proposals
that would create forums for regional security consultations in
East Asia.
Date:
January 14, 1994
Creator:
Niksch, Larry A.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
China: Current U.S. Sanctions
Description:
In the months following China,s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, both the President and the Congress took a number of initiatives
protesting Beijing's actions. These initiatives centered around U.S. concerns related to trade, human rights, and non-proliferation. In intervening years, the United States has periodically imposed, lifted, or waived other sanctions and concluded several trade- related agreements with China relating to these concerns. Those measures that remain in place in 1994 are…
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Date:
February 8, 1994
Creator:
Dumbaugh, Kerry
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Trade and Environment: Treatment in Recent Agreements--GATT and NAFTA
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This report reviews some of the concerns surrounding the environment work program and other environmental issues. It briefly describes work underway in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and current thinking underlying development of U.S. positions on trade and the environment in the GATT.
Date:
February 24, 1994
Creator:
Fletcher, Susan R. & Tiemann, Mary
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International Financial Institutions and Environment: Multilateral Development Banks and the Global Environment Facility
Description:
The World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDB) have come under increasing pressure to assess the environmental impacts of bank-sponsored projects. The U.S. Congress has required that U.S. participation be based on policies that encourage the banks to raise the priority of environmental protection in their operations and to address environmental impacts; however, major issues continue to revolve around the effectiveness of all the MDBs in promoting environmentally sustainable deve…
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Date:
February 25, 1994
Creator:
Fletcher, Susan R. & Cody, Betsy A.
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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Indonesia "Summit" in 1994
Description:
This report discusses the Ministerial and
Leaders' Meetings of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
forum, set to be held in Indonesia. APEC is a consultative body with membership of seventeen
Pacific Basin economies that includes both China and Taiwan. The
body is working toward trade liberalization (but not a free-trade
area) in the most dynamic economic region of the world.
Date:
March 16, 1994
Creator:
Nanto, Dick K.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
South Korea: U.S. Defense Obligations
Description:
U.S. defense obligations to South Korea are contained in the U.S.-South Korean Mutual Defense Treaty, signed in 1953 and ratified in 1954. Under Article m of the treaty, the United States would "act to meet" an attack on South Korea "in accordance with its [U.S.] constitutional processes." At the time of ratification, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee did not define specifically the respective roles of the President and Congress in any decision to act militarily in accord with constitution…
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Date:
April 1, 1994
Creator:
Niksch, Larry A.
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U.N. Security Council Consideration of North Korea's Violations of its Nuclear Treaty Obligations
Description:
Since early 1993, North Korea has refused to allow inspections of its nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA). This is contrary to North Korea's obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its 1992 safeguards
agreement with the Agency. Following North Korean obstruction of an inspection in March 1994, the IAEA referred the issue to the
U.N. Security Council. The Clinton Administration is set to propose that the Council act against North Korea, possibly…
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Date:
April 6, 1994
Creator:
Niksch, Larry A.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
World Trade Organization: Institutional Issues and Dispute Settlement
Description:
Among the results of the Uruguay Round (UR) of Multilateral Trade
Negotiations conducted under the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT) are institutions to administer the trade obligations
contained in the UR agreements and to provide venues for further
negotiation and discussion of these and possibly future trade
agreements. The two primary institutional instruments are
the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the dispute settlement
procedures set forth in the Dispute Settlement Underst…
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Date:
August 3, 1994
Creator:
Grimmett, Jeanne J.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Current U.S. Sanctions Against China
Description:
In the months following China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown,
both the President and the Congress took a number of initiatives
protesting Beijing's actions. These initiatives centered around
U.S. concerns related to trade, human rights, and
non-proliferation. In intervening years, the United States has
periodically imposed, lifted, or waived other sanctions and
concluded several trade-related agreements with China relating to
these concerns. Those measures that remain in place in 1994 are
de…
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Date:
August 15, 1994
Creator:
Dumbaugh, Kerry
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Dispute Settlement Under the WTO and Trade Problems with Japan
Description:
Under the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United States may
use the dispute settlement mechanism to resolve certain trade
problems with Japan. As compared with the mechanism under the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the WTO offers
expanded coverage and nearly automatic approval for panel
requests and reports.
Date:
October 5, 1994
Creator:
Nanto, Dick K.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Enlargement in Central Europe
Description:
In December 1994, NATO members will begin the process of debating possible criteria for new members from Central Europe. Alliance relations with Russia will be a central factor determining the outcome of the debate.
Date:
November 10, 1994
Creator:
Gallis, Paul E.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Dispute Settlement Under the WTO and Trade Problems with Japan
Description:
Under the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United States may
use the dispute settlement mechanism to resolve certain trade
problems with Japan. As compared with the mechanism under the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the WTO offers
expanded coverage and nearly automatic approval for panel
requests and reports.
Date:
December 23, 1994
Creator:
Nanto, Dick K.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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