Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs articles from November 2003

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs archives from November 2003

Homeland security: protecting airliners from terrorist missiles.
November 3, 2003... Summary Recent events have focused attention on the threat that terrorists with shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) pose to commercial airliners. Most believe that no single solution exists to effectively mitigate this threat....

International terrorism in South Asia.
November 3, 2003... Summary This report reviews the international terrorist environment in South Asia, concentrating on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. (1) With U.S.-led counterterrorism efforts focused especially on Southwest Asia, the existence of...

Pakistan-U.S. relations.
November 3, 2003... 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...

Pakistan: chronology of events.(Calendar)
November 3, 2003... Summary This report provides a reverse chronology of major events involving Pakistan and Pakistan-U.S. relations from September 2001. (1) For a substantive review of Pakistan-U.S. relations, see CRS Issue Brief IB94041, Pakistan-U.S....

Election reform and electronic voting systems (DREs): analysis of security issues.
November 4, 2003... Summary In July 2003, computer scientists from Johns Hopkins and Rice Universities released a security analysis of software purportedly from a direct recording electronic (DRE) touchscreen voting machine of a major voting-system vendor....

India: chronology of events.(Calendar)
November 6, 2003... Summary This report provides a reverse chronology of major events involving India and India-U.S. relations from September 2001. (1) For a review of India-U.S. relations, see CRS Issue Brief IB93097, India-U.S. Relations. This report will...

The global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria: background and current issues.
November 6, 2003... Summary The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, is an independent Swiss foundation intended to attract and rapidly disburse new resources in developing countries for the struggle...

India-U.S. relations.
November 7, 2003... SUMMARY Although the end of the Cold War freed India-U.S. relations from the constraints of global bipolarity, New Delhi-Washington relations continued for a decade to be affected by the burden of history, most notably the longstanding...

AIDS in the Caribbean and Central America.
November 17, 2003... Summary The AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean and Central America has begun to have negative consequences for economic and social development, and continued increases in infection rates threaten future development prospects. In contrast to...

A free trade area of the Americas: status of negotiations and major policy issues.
November 17, 2003... Summary In 1994, 34 Western Hemisphere nations met at the first Summit of the Americas, envisioning a plan to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by January 2005. Nine years later, the third draft text of an agreement is being...

Iraq: U.S. regime change efforts and post-Saddam governance.
November 18, 2003... Summary Operation Iraqi Freedom accomplished a long-standing objective, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, but U.S. officials acknowledge that restoring security to postwar Iraq has proved more difficult than anticipated. Past U.S. efforts...

Terrorism in Southeast Asia.
November 18, 2003... Summary Following the defeat of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, U.S. attention turned to radical Islamist groups in Southeast Asia, particularly those in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore that are known or alleged to...

Japan-North Korea relations: selected issues.
November 26, 2003... Summary Japan and North Korea have not established official relations since the Korean Peninsula, which the Japanese Empire annexed in 1910, was liberated from Japanese rule and divided into two separate states following Japan's defeat in...

The Vietnam-U.S. normalization process.
November 28, 2003... SUMMARY U.S.-Vietnam diplomatic and economic relations remained essentially frozen for more than a decade after the 1975 communist victory in South Vietnam. Over the past decade, Washington and Hanoi have normalized relations...