Loyalty First

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

An Air Force engineer heads a team evaluating proposals from two engine manufacturers vying for a contract to build a new fighter aircraft. The engineer's project manager appears to have a casual attitude to Air Force regulations on dealings...

A Distant Command (B)

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

A Coast Guard Liaison Officer is stationed on an American protectorate in the South Pacific. His assignment is to coordinate and enforce federal marine safety, and administer a grant for a local boating safety program. Upon arriving, he learns...

A Distant Command (A)

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

A Coast Guard Liaison Officer is stationed on an American protectorate in the South Pacific. His assignment is to coordinate and enforce federal marine safety, and administer a grant for a local boating safety program. Upon arriving, he learns...

ANDA: Transforming El Salvador's Water Company

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

In 1998, most officials in El Salvador recognize that the water infrastructure and the institutions responsible for managing that infrastructure are in disrepair. Without reforms, the country would be unable to provide water and sewerage...

Getting Squeezed

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

The executive assistant to the Army Chief of Staff prepares the nomination forms for all Army officers eligible for promotion, which are then submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) for approval and later confirmation by the...

A Close Election

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

When a Republican state representative in the Midwest decides not to seek re-election, he is approached by a politically active, successful farmer about running for the seat. He thinks the farmer would represent the moderate wing of the party...

To Budapest and Beyond (Epilogue)

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

When Ukraine becomes independent following the collapse and dissolution of the Soviet Union, the nation which is suddenly Europe's third most populous finds itself almost immediately caught up in high-stakes international diplomacy and...

Decision to Denuclearize: How Ukraine Became a Non Nuclear Weapons State

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

When Ukraine becomes independent following the collapse and dissolution of the Soviet Union, the nation which is suddenly Europe's third most populous finds itself almost immediately caught up in high-stakes international diplomacy and...

The Long Road Ahead: Seeking Recovery for War-Torn Mozambique

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

When Joaquin Chissano, newly-elected president of the East African nation of Mozambique, took office in October, 1994, he inherited the despair and destruction which had followed 16 years of civil war. This so-called "in box" case frames the...

Community Development and Community Policing in Seattle's Chinatown International District: The Community Action Partnership Begins (B)

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

When a community development corporation seeking to improve the housing and quality of life in Seattle's Chinatown "international district" approaches the Seattle police, it receives a chilly reception. The neighborhood, though it had endured a...

A Funder-Agency "Partnership": The Fathers and Families Together Project

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

This philanthropic policy case describes the efforts of the Cleveland-based O'Neill Foundation to initiate--and closely monitor--a neighborhood-focused program to encourage African-American fathers to play a more active role in the lives of...

The Long Road Ahead: Seeking Recovery for War-Torn Mozambique (Epilogue)

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

When Joaquin Chissano, newly-elected president of the east African nation of Mozambique, takes office in October, 1994, he inherits the despair and destruction which has followed 16 years of civil war. This so-called "in box" case frames the...