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

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

U.S.-Latin American trade: recent trends.
May 11, 2004... Summary Since congressional passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) in August 2002 (P.L. 107-210), the U.S.-Chile free trade agreement (FTA) has been implemented and negotiations have been concluded on the U.S.-Central America Free...

Drug control: international policy and approaches.
May 13, 2004... SUMMARY Efforts to significantly reduce the flow of illicit drugs from abroad into the United States have so far not succeeded. Moreover, over the past decade, worldwide production of illicit drugs has risen dramatically: opium and...

Pakistan-U.S. relations.
May 14, 2004... SUMMARY Key areas of U.S. concern regarding Pakistan include regional terrorism; weapons proliferation; the ongoing Kashmir dispute and Pakistan-India tensions; human rights protection; and economic development. A U.S.-Pakistan...

India-U.S. relations.
May 20, 2004... SUMMARY The end of the Cold War freed India-U.S. relations from the constraints of global bipolarity, but New Delhi-Washington relations continued for a decade to be affected by the burden of history, most notably the longstanding...

Palestinians and Middle East peace: issues for the United States.
May 20, 2004... SUMMARY The United States began contacts with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in December 1988, after the PLO accepted Israel's right to exist, accepted U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338 that call for an exchange of land for peace,...

Small-scale terrorist attacks using chemical and biological agents: an assessment framework and preliminary comparisons.
May 20, 2004... Summary This report, which will be updated as necessary, presents a means of assessing the relative threat from terrorist-use of individual chemical, biological, and toxin agents. It focuses on small-scale, targeted chemical and biological...

Border security: inspections practices, policies, and issues.
May 26, 2004... Summary The United States now has a unified inspections operation at the borders; a single inspector is charged with examining people, animals, plants, goods, and cargo upon entry to the country. The transfer of these functions to the...

Military courts-martial: an overview.
May 26, 2004... Summary The recent reports of abuse of prisoners held by the military in Iraq have raised questions about how the armed forces discipline and punish those who commit crimes or violate the rules and regulations of the military. Congress, under...

AIDS in Africa.
May 28, 2004... SUMMARY Sub-Saharan Africa has been more severely affected by AIDS than any other part of the world. The United Nations reports that 26.6 million adults and children are infected with the HIV virus in the region, which has about 10% of the...

Military forces: what is the appropriate size for the United States?
May 28, 2004... Summary For several years, some Members of Congress and other military analysts have argued that the U.S. Armed Forces are too small to adequately meet all the requirements arising in the post-Cold War era, and particularly in the Global...