Results for “National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States”

but that’s all the more reason not to give it to him. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s 2008 talks with Syria (via Turkey) allowed Syria to escape the partial isolation the United States had imposed on it in that decade

it could not divert its forces to the north. That helped secure Turkey at a relatively low cost in aid and risk. By aligning itself with the interests of a great power

the United States and its Western allies should not be shy about working with reformers and democrats to shape the region’s trajectory — and ensuring Al Qaeda’s irrelevance in the Sunni Arab world

under rule establishing personal jurisdiction for cases arising under federal law where defendant had sufficient contacts with the United States as a whole but was not subject to jurisdiction in any particular state

the ATA provides for personal jurisdiction through its nationwide service of process provision. See 18 U.S.C. § 2334(a); Fed.R.Civ.P. 4(k)(1)(D). In situations in which Defendants were not served in the United States pursuant to the ATA

for the reasons the Court found that Plaintiffs made a prima facie demonstration that IIRO has purposefully directed its activities at the United States

NCB requests that the Court postpone resolution of the subject matter jurisdiction question posed by the FSIA until NCB’s personal jurisdiction defense is resolved. NCB argues that such a course would lead to its quicker dismissal from the litigation and would limit the intrusion...

… Group on U.S.–European Union Trade and Regulatory Issues and the Asia Task Force for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 2009

…egimes have generally maintained some illusion of pluralism as one of their main concessions to the post-Cold War international or- der, a number of governments have been less attentive to this priority, drifting back toward the electoral tactics, and lopsided results, of 20th-c...

…h: last year’s flotilla made a big difference for the people of Gaza — at a terrible cost in lives — by refocusing international attention on their plight and forcing a change in Israeli policy. Today, twice as many goods enter from Israel as before. Nonetheless, Gaza remains a d...

Contractor | 33 later. In fact, he later used the very vulnerability he pointed out to steal NSA documents at Dell. In September 2009, still on the Dell payroll, Snowden made a ten- day trip to India. He later said he was on an official visit “working at the US embassy.” Hotel...

…ticipants Robert Daly is Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Larry Diamond is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanfor...

…d company. On the record is tougher, especially when she’s in a job where a single misplaced word can turn into an international incident. It’s not that she doesn’t trust at least some reporters; otherwise she wouldn’t risk private candor. But the distrust for the news media as a...

When Lorena Bobbitt cut off her husband John Bobbitt’s penis, she fulfilled her desire to harm another. She carried out this gruesome act despite the moral and legal sanctions against it. But she did not plan this act in advance, and nor did it occur in the heat of the moment, tr...

wealth that they took in the 15 years leading up to the crisis was not hit at all, and I think that’s one of the fuels of this populist revolt that we’re seeing as the tea party. So I think there are many, many measures, particularly about getting the banks on better footing, mak...