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A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Supporting democracy abroad is a major U.S. foreign policy objective. To better understand how this assistance has been implemented in Latin America, GAO was asked to review programs in six countries--Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Peru--that have been of particular importance to U.S. interests in Central and South America. Between fiscal years 1992 and 2002, U.S. agencies have funded more than $580 million in democracy-related programs in these countries. This report discusses the impact of and factors affecting this assistance and the overarching management issues that have affected program planning and implementation."

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Entry Features -- Afghanistan -- Overview -- Democrats on U.S. Relations with Afghanistan -- Republicans on U.S. Relations with Afghanistan -- Further Reading -- Arms Control and Disarmament -- Overview -- Democrats on Arms Control and Disarmament Policy -- Republicans on Arms Control and Disarmament Policy -- Further Reading -- Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) -- Overview -- Democrats on Missile Defense Policy -- Republicans on Missile Defense Policy -- Further Reading -- Brexit and the European Union -- Overview -- Republicans on the EU and Brexit -- Democrats on the EU and Brexit -- Further Reading -- China -- Overview -- Republicans on U.S. Relations with China -- Democrats on U.S. Relations with China -- Further Reading -- Climate Change -- Overview -- Democrats on Climate Change -- Republicans on Climate Change -- Further Reading -- Cuba -- Overview -- Democrats on U.S. Relations with Cuba -- Republicans on U.S. Relations with Cuba -- Further Reading -- Cyberterrorism and Security -- Overview -- Republicans on Cybersecurity Policy -- Democrats on Cybersecurity Policy -- Further Reading -- Debt Relief for Developing Countries -- Overview -- Democrats on Debt Relief for Developing Countries -- Republicans on Debt Relief for Developing Countries -- Further Reading -- Defense Spending -- Overview -- Republicans on Defense Spending -- Democrats on Defense Spending -- Further Reading -- Egypt -- Overview -- Republicans on U.S. Relations with Egypt -- Democrats on U.S. Relations with Egypt -- Further Reading -- Energy Policy -- Overview -- Democrats on Energy Policy -- Republicans on Energy Policy -- Further Reading -- Foreign Aid -- Overview -- Republicans on U.S. Foreign Aid Policy -- Democrats on U.S. Foreign Aid Policy -- Further Reading -- Human Rights -- Overview

Objectives<i>U.S. foreign policy towards Russia is of the utmost importance for the national security of the countries on the NATO eastern flank. Grand strategies are among the analytical concepts for classification and analysis of U.S. actions in the international arena. This paper uses grand strategy classification framework to classify and analyse U.S. strategy towards Russia from 2001 to 2017.</i>Methods<i>36 speeches about Russia by U.S. Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden from 2001 to 2017 were used in content analysis. U.S. grand strategy classification framework was used as the tool for coding and classifying different foreign policy elements within these speeches to identify different approaches towards Russia.</i>Results<i>The content analysis allowed to identify nine stages in U.S. policy towards Russia from 2001 to 2017. The most significant shift during this period was in 2014 when after Russia's aggression in Ukraine U.S. strategy towards Russia shifted from liberal internationalism towards primacy.</i>Conclusions<i>Ideas of liberal internationalist and increasingly primacist grand strategies do influence U.S. foreign policy towards Russia. The grand strategy classification framework offers a valuable tool for analyzing, classifying and identifying different foreign policy stages in U.S foreign policy towards Russia.</i>

Efforts to persuade the military dictatorship to return power to a civilian, elected government; based in part on symposium presentation. U.S. ideological and military-strategic interests.

Issues for Oct. 5, 1925-Jan. 29, 1926 called series 1925-26, no. 1-8. ; Some vols. accompanied by supplements. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Absorbed by its Foreign policy bulletin Sept. 1951.

Foreign aid is basically an instrument of foreign policy. The United States was the first country to provide aid to Nepal in the height of the Cold War. As in the case of most of the recipients of U.S. aid, the United States employed aid to serve its fundamental foreign policy objectives. The paper examines the main foreign policy motivations of the United States in Nepal and evaluates how successful aid was in achieving those objectives. The paper concludes that although the Cold War considerations for aid are changed, the United States should continue to offer aid in sectors that may benefit the poorer section of society as the success or failure of Nepal's democracy rests upon how fast the government manages to improve their economic conditions.

Between 2000 and 2005, Russia-allied governments in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, and (not discussed in this paper) Kyrgyzstan were overthrown through bloodless upheavals. Though Western media generally portrayed these coups as spontaneous, indigenous and popular ('people power') uprisings, the 'color revolutions' were in fact outcomes of extensive planning and energy ─ much of which originated in the West. The United States, in particular, and its allies brought to bear upon post-communist states an impressive assortment of advisory pressures and financing mechanisms, as well as campaign technologies and techniques, in the service of 'democracy assistance'. Their arsenals included exit and opinion polling, focus groups for 'revolutionary messaging', and methods and training in 'strategic nonviolent conflict'. Among the key foreign agents involved in the process of creating 'transitional democracies', as discussed in this study, are the United States Agency for International Development, the National Endowment for Democracy and its funded institutes, George Soros's Open Society Institute, Freedom House, and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. These developments are conceived as aspects of the larger neoliberal program of opening the Eastern European region for commercial, strategic military, cultural, and political domination by the G-7 countries. Four types of foreign assistance studied are: (1) political; (2) financial; (3) technical training; and (4) marketing (propaganda).

This report provides current statistical information, profiles the Afghanistan narcotics trade's participants, explores linkages between narcotics, insecurity, and corruption, and reviews U.S. and international policy responses since late 2001. The report also considers ongoing policy debates regarding the counternarcotics role of coalition military forces, poppy eradication, alternative livelihoods, and funding issues for Congress.