Results for “United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime”

…Single Point of Failure | 245 during his next fifteen days in Hong Kong would not likely escape China’s scrutiny. The United States had the ability to also follow Snowden’s move- ments via the cell phones of his lawyers and other confederates after he surfaced. All tracking cou...

…ry governments through influence operations and attacks aimed at civilians. In such a broad and protracted contest, the United States might not enjoy a favorable balance of advantages. It is by no means clear, either, that the U.S. government is structured to effectively prosecut...

…e China to switch from “peaceful development” to “military rise” and look forward to the “duel of the century” with the United States. There are those in Washington, too—apparently including, for the moment, the Obama administration—who would relish a more confrontational relatio...

…Chinese president Xi Jinping has also encouraged Chinese think tanks to “go global”— establishing a presence within the United States and other countries as a way “to advance the Chinese narrative.” In 2015, the Institute for China-America Studies (ICAS) set up shop in Washingto...

…); Letter from Arnold Kanter, Acting Secretary of State, to Presi- dent George H. W. Bush (Gept. 12, 1992) in Digest of United States Practice in International Law 1016-1017 (S. Cummins & D. Stewart eds. 2005) (explaining that the Headquarters Agreement of the Organi- zation of A...

…oreign policy, includ- ing intelligence services. He then proceeded to Russia, which has no extradition treaty with the United States. Russia granted him asy- lum, making it unlikely that U.S. authorities would ever have the opportunity to question him. Snowden’s escape left in...

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…rony capitalism, or what we call state-controlled capitalism, and that’s the big thing the tea party is fighting in the United States, and really the tea party’s biggest fight is not with the left, because we're not there yet. The biggest fight the tea party has today is just lik...

…as a president who has sold America short, an impostor who has ditched the mystical belief in the unique calling of the United States that is American exceptionalism. So Mitt Romney says Obama takes his values not from the small towns of America but from “the capitals of Europe.”...

…of underenforcement. Local corruption garners the least public and political attention now; 7° not coincidentally, the United States has found an effective model of enforcement redundancy on this front. 7° The justice system's responses to sexual assault and police violence, on...

…al Courts <=94 Allegations that Saudi Royal Family members owned substantial assets in and did substantial business in United States, and used profits therefrom to fund inter- national terrorist acts, including those leading to September 11 attacks, and that Saudi Arabian Prince...

…rony capitalism, or what we call state-controlled capitalism, and that’s the big thing the tea party is fighting in the United States, and really the tea party’s biggest fight is not with the left, because we're not there yet. The biggest fight the tea party has today is just lik...

… a rule immunizing indirect sponsors of terrorism from the jurisdiction of U.S. courts for injuries *17 suffered in the United States on due process grounds is incorrect and inconsistent with controlling precedent. For their part, the defendants asserted that Terrorist Attacks I...

…rs. T. Morgan Dixon co-leads GirlTrek, the largest public health nonprofit for African-American women and girls in the United States. GirlTrek encourages women to use walking as a practical first step to inspire healthy living, families and communities and knits local advocacy t...

126 Conclusion and Recommendations China’s aggressive policy is threatening the advantages the United States has long enjoyed as a scientifically creative nation. This is occurring as a declining number of US students are getting advanced degrees in science and technology, R&D...