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AFP eWire February 25, 2006	Survey Suggests Many U.S. Nonprofits May Be Engaged in Political Activity A new report by the IRS suggests that a large percentage of nonprofit organizations in the United States, including churches, may be engaged in some sort of prohibited political activity.
Parameters Spring 2006 Eric A. Heinze	Humanitarian Intervention and the War in Iraq: Norms, Discourse, and State Practice If the idea of humanitarian intervention falls from grace because of its association with the Iraq-U.S. conflict as well as the U.S. war on terror, then a valuable instrument in the tool kit of human rights strategies may be rendered undeservedly useless.
Parameters Spring 2006 Wade Markel	Draining the Swamp: The British Strategy of Population Control Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. and its Army again find themselves confronted with a tenacious insurgency, this time in Iraq. Here's a look at Britain's victory in Malaya as a model to emulate.
Parameters Spring 2006 Dafna Hochman	Rehabilitating a Rogue: Libya's WMD Reversal and Lessons for US Policy Ultimately, there is no clear formula prescribing the rehabilitation of rogues or a clear roadmap to generate voluntary disarmament. The Libyan reversal suggests that US policymakers should be mindful to appeal to a diverse array of possible approaches as a necessary.
Parameters Spring 2006 Paul Bracken	Net Assessment: A Practical Guide Net assessment is one of the principal frameworks for analyzing the national security strategy of the United States. This article aims to demystify net assessment by examining its key features.
Parameters Spring 2006 Nader Elhefnawy	Toward a Long-Range Energy Security Policy An overview of US and international energy policy, including the prospects for an economy based on renewable energy, the security problems likely to result from tightening oil supplies, and a possible basis for making the transition to alternatives.
BusinessWeek March 6, 2006 Stanley Reed	The Real Shipping News Behind the furor over the U.S. and Dubai shipping deal is a well-respected company with global reach.
CIO March 1, 2006 Ben Worthen	Customs Rattles the Supply Chain The government wants you to secure your supply chain. Right now, its program is voluntary. It won't stay that way for long. And the responsibility for collecting the data Uncle Sam wants is going to fall on the CIO.
InternetNews February 24, 2006 Roy Mark	EPIC: Lawyers Drive Phone Data Black Market The Electronic Privacy Information Center says that lawyers are the primary buyers of online black market phone data raising significant ethical issues for the legal profession.
InternetNews February 24, 2006 Roy Mark	CardSystems Settles Data Breach Charges CardSystems settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission Thursday over what the FTC characterizes as the largest known compromise of financial data to date.
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