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Appropriations for FY2001: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Description:
Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittees.
Date:
September 2, 2000
Creator:
Nowels, Larry
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Appropriations for FY2003: Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs
Description:
Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittees.
Date:
September 6, 2002
Creator:
Nowels, Larry
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Appropriations for FY2004: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Description:
Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This Report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittees.
Date:
September 22, 2003
Creator:
Nowels, Larry
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act
Description:
This report describes the changes that were made by the FISA Amendments Act within the context of the government's authority to conduct surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes.
Date:
September 12, 2012
Creator:
Liu, Edward C.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Cuba: Issues for the 110th Congress
Description:
This report discusses the current political conditions of Cuba as well as its relationship with the United States. In particular, the report focuses on U.S. policy regarding how to best support political and economic change in one of the world's remaining communist nations, in the context of Fidel Castro's departure from heading the government because of poor health.
Date:
September 24, 2008
Creator:
Sullivan, Mark P.
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Taiwan-Mainland China Relations: Status, Prospects, U.S. Interests, and Options
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Concerned with Taiwan's growing assertiveness in world affairs, symbolized recently by Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui's June 1995 visit to the United States, Beijing has shifted to a harder line toward Taiwan.
Date:
September 8, 1995
Creator:
Sutter, Robert G.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Iran: Current Developments and U.S. Policy
Description:
Report discussing the most recent political developments in Iran, including who the country offers support to and opposes. The report also makes note of U.S. policy regarding these developments, as well as the measures put in place to ensure continued peaceful relations between the two countries.
Date:
September 11, 2002
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Public Diplomacy: A Review of Past Recommendations
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No Description Available.
Date:
September 2, 2005
Creator:
Epstein, Susan B. & Mages, Lisa
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Mexico-U.S. Relations: Issues for the 106th Congress
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The United States and Mexico have a special relationship under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which removes trade and investment barriers between the countries. The relationship has been strengthened by presidential visits, including President Clinton's February 1999 trip to Mexico and President Zedillo's June 2000 trip to the United States, and by regular contacts between cabinet-level officials. Major issues of concern to Congress are trade, immigration, drug trafficking, an…
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Date:
September 5, 2000
Creator:
Storrs, K. Larry
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Kurds in Iraq Propose Controversial Referendum on Independence
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This report discusses the proposed Kurdish independence referendum set for September 25, 2017 and the opposition of the Iraqi and U.S. government to holding it at that time.
Date:
September 18, 2017
Creator:
Blanchard, Christopher M.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Direct Overt U.S. Aid Appropriations for and Military Reimbursements to Pakistan, FY2002-FY2018
Description:
Table of data outlining direct overt U.S. aid appropriations and military reimbursements to Pakistan including number for fiscal years 2002-2011 (combined), fiscal years 2012-2016 (individually) and estimates for 2017 and 2018.
Date:
September 6, 2017
Creator:
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Private Security Contractors in Iraq: Background, Legal Status, and Other Issues
Description:
This report summarizes what is currently known publicly about companies that provide personnel for security missions in Iraq and some sources of controversy surrounding them. The report also summarizes pertinent legislative proposals.
Date:
September 29, 2008
Creator:
Elsea, Jennifer K.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Possible U.S. Policy Approaches to North Korea
Description:
This report describes President Trump's current policy toward North Korea and possible options for future U.S. policy. Options include diplomatic engagement, international and U.S. sanction increases, military strikes, destabilization of the North Korean government through intelligence activities and popular resentment, enhanced military cooperation with allies, and additional funding for preventing arms trading and related trade with North Korea.
Date:
September 4, 2017
Creator:
Chanlett-Avery, Emma & Manyin, Mark E.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Palestinian Initiatives for 2011 at the United Nations
Description:
This report provides information on the United Nations (U.N.) framework and process for options being discussed regarding possible Palestinian statehood, including overviews of the following topics: the U.N. and recognition of states, observer status in the United Nations, and the criteria and process for United Nations membership. The report also analyzes the prospects for avoiding U.N. action by reaching an Israel-PLO agreement to resume negotiations, as well as the possibility of a compromis…
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Date:
September 23, 2011
Creator:
Zanotti, Jim & Browne, Marjorie Ann
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Quatar: Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
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This report outlines Qatar's governmental structure and leaders, economy, human rights issues, their relations with other countries in the region, and U.S. defense partnerships with Qatar.
Date:
September 1, 2017
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Redeploying U.S. Nuclear Weapons to South Korea: Background and Implications in Brief
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This report provides background information on the deployment of nuclear weapon systems in South Korea in the past, explores the options that might be available for the redeployment of nuclear weapons to South Korea now to deter the North Korean threat, and discusses the potential implications of doing so for South Korea, North Korea, Japan, and the U.S.
Date:
September 14, 2017
Creator:
Woolf, Amy F. & Chanlett-Avery, Emma
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
State Department Special Envoy, Representative, and Coordinator Positions: Background and Congressional Actions
Description:
This report provides background on the use of special envoys, representatives, and coordinators (primarily within the foreign affairs arena; for the most part, interagency positions are not included). It identifies various temporary positions, their purpose, and existing authorities. The report presents commonly articulated arguments for and against the use of these positions and issues for Congress going forward. The scope of this report is limited to the special envoy and related positions id…
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Date:
September 15, 2017
Creator:
Gill, Cory R. & Epstein, Susan B.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
U.S. Role in the World: Background and Issues for Congress
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This report presents background information and issues for Congress on the overarching U.S. foreign policy issue of the U.S. role in the world. Certain statements and actions from the Trump Administration have led to uncertainty about the Administration's intentions regarding the future U.S. role, and have intensified an ongoing debate among foreign policy specialists, strategists, policymakers, and the public about what that role should be.
Date:
September 19, 2017
Creator:
O'Rourke, Ronald & Moodie, Michael
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Syria's Chemical Weapons: Continuing Challenges
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This report discusses Syria's chemical weapon supplies, efforts to have them destroyed, recent uses of chemical weapons there, and issues related to undeclared chemical weapon stocks.
Date:
September 8, 2017
Creator:
Nikitin, Mary Beth D.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Russian Energy Policy Toward Neighboring Countries
Description:
This report begins with a brief discussion of the Russian oil and gas industries, including their efforts to purchase energy infrastructure in central and eastern Europe and reduce energy subsidies to neighboring countries.
Date:
September 2, 2009
Creator:
Woehrel, Steven
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
The Nordic Countries and U.S. Relations
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This report provides an overview of U.S. relations with the five Nordic countries -- Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden -- which share deep historical, linguistic, and cultural ties and many political and economic similarities. Topics include foreign and security policies, policies toward Russia, and countering terrorism.
Date:
September 13, 2018
Creator:
Archick, Kristin
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Options to Cease Implementing the Iran Nuclear Agreement
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This report analyzes some of the options the Administration might use to end or alter U.S. implementation of the JCPOA, if there is a decision to do so. These options, which might involve use of procedures in the JCPOA itself or the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (P.L. 114-17), are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Date:
September 7, 2017
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth; Kerr, Paul K. & Heitshusen, Valerie
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
The "Islamic State" Crisis and U.S. Policy
Description:
This report provides background and current information on the Islamic State, a transnational Sunni Islamist insurgent and terrorist group that has expanded its control over areas of northwestern Iraq and northeastern Syria since 2013. The report also examines possible U.S. policy options in the wake of increasing international outrage at the Islamic States' brutality and apparent disregard for typical human rights conventions.
Date:
September 10, 2014
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth; Blanchard, Christopher M.; Humud, Carla E.; Weed, Matthew C.; Margesson, Rhoda & Tiersky, Alex
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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