This volume provides an overview of church-state relations in Mexico, how these have changed in recent years and how they might affect the Mexican political system.

The Church in Contemporary Mexico (Significant Issues Series)

History

Grayson, George W.

Americas

Center for Strategic & International Studies

The evaluations in this volume reflect a consensus among scientists of several nations regarding the state of scientific knowlege about oceanic life relative both to existing demands and expectations, and to those yet to come.

Diversity of Oceanic Life: An Evaluative Review (Significant Issues Series)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

The author has identified, analyzed and compared four models of conversion from authoritarian to democratic rule - Russia, Poland, the former Czechoslovakia and Hungary. In this book he explores the origins and development of the revolutions, formations and consolidations of the post-Communist states, focusing particularly upon questions of territorial integrity and division of power. Concluding that although Poland, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia meet the basic requirement of a democratic system, Russia has not yet reached that point. Instead, McFaul argues, the transition there has only just begun and faces much greater obstacles than any other post-Communist.

Post-Communist Politics: Democratic Prospects in Russia and Eastern Europe (Significant Issues Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

McFaul, Michael

Politics & Government

Strategic Calling: The Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1962-1992 (Book)

Smith, James Allen

The Information Revolution and National Security: Dimensions and Directions (Significant Issues Series)

Cybercrime Cyberterrorism Cyberwarfare: Averting an Electronic Waterloo (CSIS Reports)

Computers & Technology

Webster, William

Cilluffo, Frank

Internet & Social Media

During the 1980s the structure of world trade and investment underwent fundamental changes. The author examines those changes and recommends a three-convergent-track trade strategy of mutually reinforcing objectives at the multilateral, regional and bilateral levels in the next five to ten years.

Trade Policy Ahead: Three Tracks and One Question (Significant Issues Series)

Business & Money

Preeg, Ernest H.

International

Alexander T. Hunt is a research associate with the Domestic Policy Issues Program at CSIS.

Health Care Reform: Ensuring Quality at an Affordable Price (CSIS Reports)

Social Sciences

This report addresses an issue of critical importance to the national security interests of the United States. Is the United States now pursuing a well-conceived and effective program of cooperation with Russia in the disposition of those vast amounts of separated plutonium that have become excess to the nuclear weapons needs of the two countries? This report sets out the U.S. response to date, notes the challenges and difficulties facing both Russia and the United States, and outlines in detail those actions necessary if the safe, timely, and effective disposition of U.S. and Russian weapons-grade plutonium is to be realized. John Taylor is a consultant on nuclear power, having formerly held senior positions with the Nuclear Power Group at the Electric Power Research Institute and with Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-N.Mex.) is chairman of the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee and vice chairman of the Energy Research, Development, Production, and Regulation Subcommittee of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Representative Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) serves on the House International Relations Committee and the House National Security Committee. Robert E. Ebel is director of the CSIS Energy and National Security Program.

Disposing of Weapons-Grade Plutonium

TAYLOR, John

Domenici, Pete V.

Ebel, Robert E.

Domenici, Senator Pete

Graham, Representative Lindsey

The National Security Act of 1947, passed at the outset of the Cold War, represented the biggest change in the organization of the United States' national security apparatus since the birth of the Republic. Today the question arises whether the organizations created in 1947 are still relevant in the post-Cold War world. 
This book develops an intellectual and operational framework for national security policy planning and is intended to serve as a practical guide to much-needed structural reform based on today's changing missions, threats, and environment. The reforms proposed seek to create, through a more agile and accountable organization, the ability as well as the political and institutional imperative for the president to take the lead in forging a public consensus on security affairs.

A New Structure for National Security Policy Planning (Significant Issues Series)

Engineering & Transportation

Cambone, Stephen A.

Engineering

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