Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs articles from August 2004

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs archives from August 2004

Terrorism in Southeast Asia.(Report)
August 1, 2004... Summary Since September 2001, the United States has been concerned with radical Islamist groups in Southeast Asia, particularly those in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore that are known to have ties to the Al...

Terrorism: key recommendations of the 9/11 commission and recent major commissions and inquiries.(Report)
August 1, 2004... Summary This report highlights key recommendations set out in the report of the 9/11 Commission organized by the following major thematic areas: (1) Focus of U.S. International Anti-Terrorism Policy; (2) Institutional Steps to Protect...

Conventional arms transfers to developing nations, 1996-2003.(Report)
August 1, 2004... Summary This report is prepared annually to provide unclassified quantitative data on conventional arms transfers to developing nations by the United States and foreign countries for the preceding eight calendar years. Some general data...

Introduction.(Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1996-2003)(Report)
August 1, 2004... This report provides unclassified background data from U.S. government sources on transfers of conventional arms to developing nations by major suppliers for the period 1996 through 2003. It also includes some data on world-wide supplier...

Major findings.(Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1996-2003)
August 1, 2004... General Trends in Arms Transfers Worldwide The value of all arms transfer agreements worldwide (to both developed and developing nations) in 2003 was over $25.6 billion. This is a significant decrease in arms agreements values over 2002,...

Summary of data trends, 1996-2003.(Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1996-2003)
August 1, 2004... Tables 1 through 1J (pages 42-52) present data on arms transfer agreements with developing nations by major suppliers from 1996-2003. These data show the most recent trends in arms contract activity by major suppliers. Delivery data, which...

Worldwide Arms Transfer Agreements and Deliveries Values, 1996-2003.(Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1996-2003)
August 1, 2004... Ten tables follow. Tables 8, 8A, and 8B and tables 9, 9A and 9B, provide the total dollar values for arms transfer agreements and arms deliveries worldwide for the years 1996-2003 in the same format and detail as do tables 1, 1A and 1B and...

Border security: key agencies and their missions.(Report)
August 1, 2004... Summary After the massive reorganization of federal agencies precipitated by the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), there are now four main federal agencies charged with securing the United States' borders: the Bureau...