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This report provides an overview of the federal role in water resources development, management, and protection, including a discussion of the two major federal water resources agencies and related legislation. It also discusses overarching policy issues, such as flood and drought management and response; project funding and authorization priorities; and aquatic ecosystem restoration.

A review essay covering books by: 1) Rob Johnson, The Afghan War, Culture, and Pragmatism: A Critical History (2011), 2) Peter L. Bergen, The Longest War. The Enduring Conflict between American and al-Qaeda (2011), 3) Hy Rothstein and John Arquilla, [eds], Afghan Endgames. Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War, (2012).

The administrative committee consists of the president, president-elect, treasurer, and four other council members whose main duties include preparing agendas for council meetings and annual business meetings and acting on behalf of the council to dispose of policy issues deemed of insufficient weight to require decisions by the council.

In this science-policy advisory report, the Superior Health Council provides a risk analysis on industrially produced trans fatty acids that focuses on the general population. It also provides specific information and recommendations regarding the nutritional requirements for dietary fats as well as amendments to the food legislation. ; BE; nl; info.hgr-css@health.belgium.be

In this science-policy advisory report, the Superior Health Council provides a risk analysis on industrially produced trans fatty acids that focuses on the general population. It also provides specific information and recommendations regarding the nutritional requirements for dietary fats as well as amendments to the food legislation. ; BE; fr; info.hgr-css@health.belgium.be

В статье рассмотрены основные направления и формы государственной политики по оказанию материальной помощи семьям военнослужащих в Нижнем Поволжье в военный период. ; In the article the basic directions and forms of a state policy on rendering pecuniary aid to families of military personnel in the Lower Volga region during the military period are considered.

Extremismus gilt als Bedrohung der modernen demokratischen Gesellschaft, er hat das Potenzial zur Zerstörung der offenen Gesellschaft, bewirkt Angst und den Wunsch, sich zu schützen. Demokratieschutz ist der Sinn anti-extremistischer Maßnahmen staatlicher und gesellschaftlicher Akteure. Der Anti-Extremismus lässt sich verstehen als Gesamtheit von Aktivitäten, die gegen den Extremismus gerichtet sind und die, die Absicht haben, die Demokratie zu erhalten oder zu entwickeln. Der Beitrag geht auf die Begriffe und Konzeptionen von Extremismus und Anti-Extremismus ein, erläutert Staatskonzeption und Anti-Extremismus sowie anti-extremistische Policy-Netzwerke. (ICB2)

Suzanne Mettler's The Submerged State shows that executing policy through tax breaks and other indirect measures encourages Americans to think that they do not rely on the government for help, even when they do. The result is a distorted public discourse and an erosion of democratic legitimacy. Adapted from the source document.

This article introduces a discussion on defining, measuring, and assessing the quality of democracy. Providing a short overview of the papers of the Symposium, it places them within a broader context of current academic debate on various methodological, theoretical, and policy outreach dimensions of the topic. Adapted from the source document.

Includes abstract. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Poor mine closure policy threatens both society and the environment. Some of the more prominent threats that have manifested are acid mine drainage, slimes dams and toxic dust from dumps. Current legislation requires that new mines set aside funds to cover their rehabilitation costs at closure.

Der Verfasser stellt die Frage nach der Zukunft der Macht in Zeiten der wachsenden Verbreitung des sogenannten Open Government-Konzeptes, das interaktive Bürgerbeteiligung über Web 2.0-Mechanismen ermöglicht. Dieser Verwaltungsansatz fördert die Bürgerpartizipation und fordert die bisherige staatliche Organisation in einem geschlossenen Bürokratiemodell und den bisherigen Policy-Zyklus heraus und führt zu einer Veränderung des Macht-Verhältnisses von Bürger und Staat. Dadurch wird es möglich, das Vertrauen des Bürgers in den Staat und die Verwaltung zu atärken, die Bürgerbeteiligung zu erhöhen und somit die Bürgergesellschaft als Ganzes weiterzuentwickeln. (ICE2)

Summarised in 'The next steps : an independent review of sustainable development in the English regions : executive summary'. ; The Sustainable Development Commission's independent review of the progress of sustainable development in the English regions. Responsibility for development and policy falls to regional development agencies, regional assemblies, government offices and the Greater London Authority. ; Publisher PDF

John Lewis Gaddis' magisterial authorized biography of George Kennan tells the story of a brilliant diplomat who helped define postwar U.S. foreign policy-especially America's successful Cold War strategy. Yet the public triumph was matched with private frustration, and the prickly Kennan never won the influence he craved. Adapted from the source document.

Статья посвящена проблеме новых акторов внешней культурной политики, в качестве которых рассматриваются международные организации, в частности, Совет Европы и Европейский Союз. ; The article is devoted to a problem of new actors of foreign cultural policy in which quality the international organizations, in particular, the Council of Europe and the European Union are considered.

Анализируются выводы и наблюдения видного современного историка Н.А. Миненко по вопросам правительственной политики и крестьянского самоуправления в государственной деревне Западной Сибири. ; The observations and conclusions concerning governmental policy and peasant self-government in a state village of Western Siberia carried out by prominent modern historian N.A. Minenko are analyzed in the work.