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…d the photographer. #8 'Burst Of Joy' HOUSE OVERSIGHT 020673 This photo, taken in 1973 and titled 'Burst of Joy', shows United States Air Force Lt Col Robert L. Stirm reuniting with his family after spending over 5 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. The girl with the op...

…ative aimed to “build higher fences” around a core set of items whose misuse can pose a national security threat to the United States.** The reform initiative is synchronizing the two existing control lists, the Munitions List and the Commerce Control List, so that they are “tie...

…ve or corrupting”—a range of groups and institutions, including the Chinese American community, Chinese students in the United States, and American civil society organizations, academic institutions, think tanks, and media." Some of these efforts fall into the category of normal...

…l on Foreign Relations puts it, "Khamenei has created a politics where it's hard for him to compromise." But so has the United States. Anyone who watched Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing knows that it is an article of faith in Congress -- and pretty much a bipartisan one -- tha...

…he September 10th people, the September 12th people, and the September 13th people. The September 13th people blame the United States for the events of September 11th and think that the proper U.S. response is to abandon American “arrogance” and American support of Israel. The Se...

…mic world that Syria was the only nation-state supporting effective resistance to Israel. It also showed Israel and the United States that Syria alone could control Hezbollah and that forcing Syria out of Lebanon was a strategic error on the part of Israel and the United States.

…nd has unexplored oil and gas resources. Most critically, as a member of the “Five Eyes” security partnerships with the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, New Zealand offers enormous possibilities for Chinese espionage. New Zealand is particularly vulnerab...

…are highly vulnerable to shady offers, but why would Russia so blatantly feed the slime to all sides in a campaign? The United States has a wide array of tools for monitoring Russian intelligence, including the world's most sophisticated sensors for intercepting signals, but disc...

… to invest in properties confiscated from their legitimate owners during the first years of the revolution. In both the United States and Spain there are organizations of those injured who are willing to go to court in defense of their rights, and who have hired lawyers to do jus...

… who falsely claim to be fighting in the name of Islam, we know that they all share one thing—they all believe that the United States is somehow at war with Islam, and that this justifies violence against Americans. So we are actively and aggressively undermining that ideology. W...

…ioned what has come to be known as “civil society.” In practice that means moving beyond the usual contacts between the United States and foreign governments to forge ties with the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are essential to stability and development. Like her hus...

…ation about the sleeper ring with the FBI, which had the respon- sibility for the surveillance of foreign agents in the United States. The FBI, for its part, kept the Russian sleeper agents under tight surveillance—an operation that grew in complexity and expense as © more SVR ag...

…ning. I'm Christiane Amanpour. There may officially be only one superpower today, but another is rapidly advancing. The United States and China jockey for position at the pinnacle of the world in what might just be called a race to the top. So how will the first tete-a-tete go be...

2] interpretation by experts employing various explicit or implicit models, the most prominent of which casts the regime as a “rational actor” that calculates risks and rewards like any Western state. In this model the highest goal is regime survival, a notion that doesn’t neces...

Freedom House Introduction Modern Authoritarianism: Origins, Anatomy, Outlook As the world’s democracies confront a dangerous internal challenge from populist and nationalist political forces, it is imperative that they recognize the simultaneous external threat presented by m...