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THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN NORTH KOREA AND THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA) OVER THE RIGHT TO FULLY INSPECT PYONGYANG'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES HAS CONTINUED FOR OVER A YEAR. RECENT DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES AND STATEMENTS HAVE PROMPTED A NEW LOOK AT THE ONGOING CRISIS. THIS ARTICLE DOES SO BY INTERVIEWING A PANEL OF EXPERTS ON ARMS CONTROL AND SECURITY ISSUES. THEY DISCUSS CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS, THE FUTURE OF NEGOTIATIONS, IMPLICATIONS FOR SECURITY OF THE REGION, AND THE ROLES OF SEVERAL IMPORTANT ACTORS INCLUDING SOUTH KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES.

Mexico's public institutions of higher education have always had to make a compromise between strictly academic work & the kind of education & research needed for the development of the country. The current global economic crisis has constrained public funding of educational institutions. At present it is necessary to devote both academic & economic resources to the recovery & growth of the nation's economy. Ways to do this are considered. Adapted from the source document.

THE SOVIET CRACKDOWN IN LITHUANIA AND THE GULF CRISIS HAVE LEFT THE STATUS OF THE FEBRUARY 1991 SUPERPOWER SUMMIT UNCERTAIN. IN ADDITION, THE AGREEMENTS REACHED DURING THE DECEMBER 1990 MINISTERIAL ON START HAVE NOT BEEN REFLECTED IN SOVIET NEGOTIATING POSITIONS IN GENEVA, RAISING DOUBT ABOUT WHETHER THE TREATY WILL BE READY IN TIME FOR A POSSIBLE FEBRUARY SUMMIT. ALTHOUGH THE THREE KEY START ISSUES IDENTIFIED BY SECRETARY OF STATE BAKER IN JUNE 1990--MODERNIZATION OF THE SOVIET SS-18 MISSILE, A NUMERICAL CEILING ON SOVIET BACKFIRE BOMBERS, AND NONCIRCUMVENTION--HAVE BEEN RESOLVED IN PRINCIPLE, DIFFERENCES REMAIN ON TECHNICAL DETAILS.

The impacts of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) on the California home care crisis are investigated in the case of the grassroots demands by caregivers working within the constraints of the unaccommodating institutional framework. The In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) funded by Medicaid dollars resulted in uneven relationships that created an oppressed group of workers lacking any opportunity to exercise or advance their rights outside of private negotiation. The limitations of SEIU are identified as unresolved issues around brokering services for respite, & the absence of any mechanisms for addressing financial & emotional burdens of families. The roots of the health care crisis are identified as a tension between how care work ought to be carried out as to how care work manifests itself in postindustrial society. Although SEIU organizing in California is acknowledged to have been somewhat successful in battling the devaluation of home care work in addressing the labor shortage, the lack of clarity on how the strategy accommodates four principles indicate that a culture of collaboration between consumer groups, workers, & public agencies needs to continue a dialogue about the nature of care services & delivery at the national level. J. Harwell

The current state of the Russian-American relations causes concerns. The economic sanctions the US introduced after the reunification with Crimea; the deliberate destruction of the Russian-American negotiation structure up to and including G-8 and the RF-US Presidential Commission and finally, megaphone diplomacy instead of the Moscow-Washington dialogue look too much as another bout of the Cold War relegated to the refuge heap of history. There is a more or less concerted opinion in Russia and other countries that another Cold War should be better avoided, it remains to be seen whether the Cold War which ended at the turn of the 1990s can be re-started. Here, Batyuk examines whether the Ukrainian crisis will end in another Cold War. Adapted from the source document.

This article investigates the foreign policy consequences of the euro crisis. Two distinctive foreign policy areas are investigated: crisis management in North Africa and the negotiation of free trade agreements with the US and India. The article employs an analytical framework that focuses on three key aspects shaping EU policy: capabilities, cohesion and context. The results suggest considerable changes in each, but not only in one direction: there are mechanisms driving policy in different directions which suggest a nuanced conclusion is required. The overarching findings of the article, however, are that the foreign policy machinery of the EU has been rather resilient to the financial crisis but that great variation exists both between different foreign policy areas and between the different components that make up the EU as an international actor. Adapted from the source document.

Papers presented at a conference held in Belgrade, Nov. 27-28, 1992. Topics include the London conference and subsequent Geneva negotiations, role of neighboring countries, the UN, the EEC, Russia, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and nongovernmental organizations, economic sanctions, and the military factor.

The pattern of military-political tensions on the Korean peninsula in the last 60 years has been one of short periods of dialogue in between intense propaganda wars. In 1993, with the threat of nuclear proliferation in the DPRK, the US and the DPRK signed a Geneva framework agreement to solve the nuclear problem; the provisions of that agreement are outlined. However, relations between the US and North Korea were never normalized and in 2002 an acute propaganda war evolved and North Korea threatened to resume its nuclear program. Three rounds of multipartite negotiations ended without resolution, and North Korea would not participate in the fourth after the disclosure that South Korea had conducted uranium experiments in 2000. Russia's position on the negotiations is described; it wants North Korea to return to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Association in developing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. The 6-way negotiations are still hopeful.

Assesses negotiations between North Korea, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the US, over the right to fully inspect Korean nuclear facilities; panel discussion.

"Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action. Composed of twenty-eight essays-a combination of new and republished texts-the anthology is organised around seven main themes: paradigms; what counts?; extraction; dispatches from a climate change frontline country; governance; finance; and action(s). Through this multifaceted approach, the contributors ask pressing questions about how we conceptualise and respond to the climate crisis, providing both 'big picture' perspectives and more focussed case studies. This unique and extensive collection will be of great value to environmental and social scientists alike, as well as to the general reader interested in understanding current views on the climate crisis." -- Publisher

In Apr 1999, the European Union (EU) quickly agreed to a Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe as its main response to the Kosovo crisis & NATO's bombing campaign. A key element of the Pact was the offer of the perspective of EU membership to all the countries of the region. This article aims to explain why the EU, despite the fact that it was already struggling in spring 1999 to manage an existing membership queue of thirteen states, decided to extend the membership perspective to yet another five countries. By tracing the negotiations that led to the Stability Pact, the article finds that there were four essential pieces to this puzzle: crisis, path-dependency, policy-framing, & the institution of the EU Presidency. Finally, on the basis of the case study, the article points to a number of more general lessons for the EU as a negotiation system. Box 1, 43 References. Adapted from the source document.