Foreign Relations Authorization Act News Today

Various US administrations have selectively engaged with ICC

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Export controls played a critical role in helping the West to prevail over the Soviet Union and its allies in the Cold War. The United States now faces a new national security challenge in the People’s Republic of China. After World War II, the United States was the dominant economic power globally. It organized a coalition of countries, …

The start of a series examining the current legal regime, new legislation, points of consensus, and related Court doctrines and policies.

The U.S. could reenter the cultural and educational body several years after it pulled out of the group citing an "anti-Israel bias" and other concerns.

The U.S. could reenter the cultural and educational body several years after it pulled out of the group citing an "anti-Israel bias" and other concerns.

The U.S. could reenter the cultural and educational body several years after it pulled out of the group citing an "anti-Israel bias" and other concerns.

The U.S. could reenter the cultural and educational body several years after it pulled out of the group citing an "anti-Israel bias" and other concerns.

In December 2007, the U.N. General Assembly broke with a 20-year tradition of adopting budgetary decisions only by consensus by approving the 2008-2009 regular budget over a U.S. objection.

Congress and the Administration should return to the normalauthorization and appropriation process for paying America's U.N.assessment. This would not result in expenditures that are morethan the United States has already agreed to contribute, and itcould do much to increase support for critical U.S. objectives inthe war on terrorism.

Congress is withholding some of the money the U.N. says it is owed in order to force the organization to reform.