Author: The American Academy of Diplomacy
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: American Academy of Diplomacy
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Category : Diplomacy
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Intended to provide solutions for and stimulate a needed conversation about the urgent need to provide funding for United States foreign policies to include additional staffing levels, this study reviews core diplomacy, public diplomacy, economic assistance, and reconstruction/stabilization as four major areas of foreign affairs activity. In addition to staffing shortfalls, this report identified "authority shortfalls" which relate to certain economic and security assistance programs that should be part of the Secretary of State's position but are currently being exercised by the Secretary of Defense.

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Category : Diplomacy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Intended to provide solutions for and stimulate a needed conversation about the urgent need to provide funding for United States foreign policies to include additional staffing levels, this study reviews core diplomacy, public diplomacy, economic assistance, and reconstruction/stabilization as four major areas of foreign affairs activity. In addition to staffing shortfalls, this report identified "authority shortfalls" which relate to certain economic and security assistance programs that should be part of the Secretary of State's position but are currently being exercised by the Secretary of Defense.

Author: Eric Helleiner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801457491
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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For half a century, the United States has garnered substantial political and economic benefits as a result of the dollar's de facto role as a global currency. In recent years, however, the dollar's preponderant position in world markets has come under challenge. The dollar has been more volatile than ever against foreign currencies, and various nations have switched to non-dollar instruments in their transactions. China and the Arab Gulf states continue to hold massive amounts of U.S. government obligations, in effect subsidizing U.S. current account deficits, and those holdings are a point of potential vulnerability for American policy. What is the future of the U.S. dollar as an international currency? Will predictions of its demise end up just as inaccurate as those that have accompanied major international financial crises since the early 1970s? Analysts disagree, often profoundly, in their answers to these questions. In The Future of the Dollar, leading scholars of dollar's international role bring multidisciplinary perspectives and a range of contrasting predictions to the question of the dollar's future. This timely book provides readers with a clear sense of why such disagreements exist and it outlines a variety of future scenarios and the possible political implications for the United States and the world.

Author: William I. Bacchus
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271043229
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815705204
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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Spending on U.S. foreign affairs, which constitutes only about one percent of the federal budget, is being sharply reduced. Under the President's 1996 budget plan, it will decline by just as great a percentage as defense between 1990 and 2002—and by substantially more than defense over the 1980-2002 period. No other major category of federal spending will undergo a real cut over either time period. The shrinking budget, totaling about $19 billion in 1997, will still have to fund the State Department, international broadcasting and educational exchanges, trade subsidies and investment guarantees for U.S. business overseas; United Nations operations including peacekeeping, and all types of foreign assistance. In this book, O'Hanlon and Graham focus primarily on this last component of international spending. Specifically, they analyze U.S. official development assistance (ODA) to poor countries. The authors place U.S. ODA in a broad historical, international, and economic perspective. They then recommend an alternative approach to ODA for the United States as well as other donors. They favor continuing to provide humanitarian and grass-roots aid to most poor countries, but providing ODA to promote macroeconomic growth only to those countries that maintain coherent, market-oriented economic policy frameworks. The authors argue that to provide effective aid, as well as to maintain U.S. leadership in world affairs, net resources for ODA and the international account need to increase only modestly.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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