The eagle and the panda : an owl's view from Southeast Asia by Desker, Barry

“…Nor is 'return to Asia' an apt term, because the U.S. has never left Asia." From the military perspective, U.S. secretary of defense Leon Panetta observed at the Shangri-La Dialogue in June 2012 that after the withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq and the drawdown of military forces from Europe, rebalancing will result in a shift from a 50:50 to a 60:40 ratio of U.S. naval forces in the Asia-Pacific and Europe.2 However, the Pacific is much larger than the Atlantic, and fiscal constraints will require a decline in overall U.S. military spending in the decade ahead. …”
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Vicisitudes de la política exterior y la seguridad nacional en México y la relación con Estados Unidos al inicio del siglo XXI by Abelardo Rodríguez Sumano

“…The following essay evaluates Mexican Foreign and National Security policies during President Vicente Fox’s term (2000-2006). The author suggests that both policies lacked a strategic plan that granted the protection of Mexican interests throughout the War on Terrorismled by the US government. …”
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Obama’s Afghanistan strategy: a policy of balancing the reality with the practice by Ra'ees, Wahabuddin

“…President Barak H. Obama promised that his administration in pursuit of the US interests would stabilize Afghanistan. …”
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Obama’S Afghanistan strategy: a policy of balancing the reality with the practice by Ra'ees, Wahabuddin

“…The Obama administration should have shared Secretary Gates’s fear that the Afghans will view the US as an occupying power similar to the Soviet Union. …”
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Strategic Asymmetric Deception and Its Role in the Current Threat Environment by Seth A. Gulsby

“…President Bill Clinton's Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, once stated that the post-Cold War world of the 1990s was a "paradox [where] American military superiority actually increase[d] the threat of... attack against [the U.S.] by creating incentives for adversaries to challenge us asymmetrically." …”
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A Swirl of Semiosis of Communication in Media and Political Discourse by Griselda Zárate, Olga Nelly Estrada

“…This is particularly acute in regards to previous events, such as the visit in August 31, 2016 of US president candidate Donald Trump to Mexico. This paper aims to approach this political event as a cultural text containing several subtexts with diverse layers of meaning production: the mentioned visit as a candidate; Mexican president Peña Nieto’s dismissal of secretary Videgaray; Candidate Trump’s rally in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. …”
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A call to action: Global Health Organizations urge COP28 to phase out fossil fuels by * Global Health Organization Leadership, * Regional Leaders in Health

“…K Srinath Reddy, Past President of Public Health Foundation of India This letter is supported and endorsed by: National Health Organization Leadership (Alphabetical by organization) • Rosana Teresa Onocko Campos, President, Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva (Brazil) • Katie Huffling, DNP, Executive Director, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (US) • Dr Latifa Patel, Representative Body Chair, British Medical Association • Kamran Abassi, Editor-in-Chief, British Medical Journal (UK) • Frances Peart, President & Board Chair, Climate and Health Alliance (Australia) • Kate Wylie, Executive Director, Doctors for the Environment Australia • Agonafer Tekalenge, President, Ethiopian Public Health Association • Diederik Aarendonk, Forum Coordinator Global Health Organization Leadership, European Forum for Primary Care • Kevin Fenton, President, Faculty of Public Health (UK) • Ansgar Gerhardus, Board Chair, German Public Health Association • Vital Ribeiro, Chair, Associação Civil Projeto Hospitais Saudáveis (Healthy Hospitals Project) • Sheila Sobrany, President, Royal College of Nursing • The Board of the Public Health Association of South Africa • Diana Zeballos, Executive Secretary, Sustainable Health Equity Movement (SHEM) • Adeline Kimambo, Executive Secretary, Tanzania Public Health Association • Richard Smith, Chair, UK Health Alliance on Climate Change…”
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Applying the Concepts of Control by David M. Bishop

“…If we are to become well-regarded, not just by our fellow scientists and engineers, but by the world at large, then we will have to do things which beneficially affect the world at large to the point that people notice and wish to applaud. The President also paid tribute to the work of a Past-President, Mr David Nutting, and the Secretary, Mr Edgar Eden, for their efforts in preparing and presenting the petition.…”
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America’s perilous pivot by Solana, J

“…Instead of being able to focus on US foreign policy’s ‘pivot’ to Asia, Obama was forced to spend many hours in conversation with the leaders of Egypt and Israel, and to dispatch Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from Asia, in order to facilitate a cease-fire in Gaza.…”

PIERWSZY BANK STANÓW ZJEDNOCZONYCH JAKO PIERWOWZÓR SYSTEMU REZERWY FEDERALNEJ by Wojciech Kwiatkowski

“…Alexander Hamilton (the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury), who was [the followerof creation of the bank, already in 1790 assumed that the federal government had the power to charter banks because the Constitution granted the government the right to establish institutions necessary for its operations. …”
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Book Review: ‘Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East’ by Philip H Gordon by Luke Botting

“…Philip Gordon is currently Deputy National Security Adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, previously serving in the Obama administration as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2009-13), and White House Co-ordinator for the Middle East (2013-15). …”
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Death: Ethical, Medical and Theological Interconnectedness by Shamima Parvin Lasker, Arif Hossain

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Soul and its Implication in Philosophy, Medicine and Religion by Shamima Parvin Lasker, Arif Hossain

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Bishkek Protocol. How It Was: Memories and Comments by Andrey V. Toropygin

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Paradigm Change to Human Security by Garry Jacobs, Janani Ramanathan

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General “Maize” as One of the Failed Managerial Experiments of N. S. Khrushchev by A. I. Lushin

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HHS/CDC Legal Response to SARS Outbreak by James J. Misrahi, Joseph A. Foster, Frederic E. Shaw, Martin S. Cetron

“…Before the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) legal authority to apprehend, detain, or conditionally release persons was limited to seven listed diseases, not including SARS, and could only be changed using a two-step process: 1) executive order of the President of the United States on recommendation by the Secretary, U.S. …”
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Choosing Wisely, the reasons for its success by Marco Bobbio, Sandra Vernero

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The 20th Annual Conference of the AMSS by Dilnawaz Siddiqui

“…Imtiaz Ahmad, Conference Chair and President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); Sulayman Nyang, President of the AMSS; and Mohammad Zohdy, President of the AMSE. …”
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Out of the Blue: The Pacific Rim as a Region by Arturo Santa-Cruz

“…In 1993, in advance of what was to be the first Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leader’s summit, US president Bill Clinton gave a lecture at Waseda University in Japan. …”
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