Getting to Dayton: Negotiating an End to the War in Bosnia

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

The road to the breakthrough Dayton Peace Accords, which ushered in the prospect of a stable peace in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, is built through an intricate, high-pressure negotiation brokered by the United States and involving Serbia,...

James Woolsey and the CIA: The Aldrich Ames Spy Case (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

When Washington attorney and longtime Capitol Hill staff member James Woolsey became director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1993, he inherited a bombshell that would soon become public. A joint CIA-FBI investigation had found that...

James Woolsey and the CIA: The Aldrich Ames Spy Case

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

When Washington attorney and longtime Capitol Hill staff member James Woolsey became director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1993, he inherited a bombshell that would soon become public. A joint CIA-FBI investigation had found that...

Shifting the Labor Relations Paradigm: A Union-Management Partnership in Ohio State Government

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Public sector unions are the fastest-growing sector of organized labor in the US, and are key players to be considered by a wide variety of elected and appointed public officials. This case, in contrast to most in both public management and...

Catastrophic Health Insurance for the Elderly

Publication Date: September 01, 1995

Ronald Reagan's 1987 proposal to change the federal Medicare system to help protect against the costs of "catastrophic illness" seemed to portend an important change in the US social insurance system. And, indeed, an amended version of the...

The Treuhandanstalt: Taking a Nation Private (Abridged)

Publication Date: June 01, 1995

The dramatic merger of the former East and West Germanys led to an historic mission for a new agency: the sale to private buyers of the vast assets of the former East Germany. The agency created for the purpose was the Treuhandanstalt, conceived...

Judging Collaborators in Post-Communist Europe: The Difficult Case of Jan Kavan (Epilogue)

Publication Date: June 01, 1995

This is a 1-page epilogue to HKS Case 1284.0. When democratization comes to the Czech Republic, the nation's newly-emerging political system faces a powerful ethical problem. How should it deal with those who participated in, or were involved...

Judging Collaborators in Post-Communist Europe: The Difficult Case of Jan Kavan

Publication Date: June 01, 1995

When democratization comes to the Czech Republic, the nation's newly-emerging political system faces a powerful ethical problem. How should it deal with those who participated in, or were involved with, the former Communist regime? Like other...

Cultures in Collision: Battling Over the Environmental Review of Quebec's Great Whale Project (Sequel)

Publication Date: April 03, 1995

When the government of Quebec announces plans to build a huge hydroelectric project in the James Bay region in the north of the province, a protracted struggle is set in motion. The government's vision of energy self-reliance and export, along...

Cultures in Collision: Cultures in Collision: Battling Over the Environmental Review of Quebec's Great Whale Project

Publication Date: April 03, 1995

When the government of Quebec announces plans to build a huge hydroelectric project in the James Bay region in the north of the province, a protracted struggle is set in motion. The government's vision of energy self-reliance and export, along...

Managing the Underground City: The New York City Transit Authority Reclaims its Subway Stations

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This is a text-based case that provides the history of the origins and hopes for the station manager program described in the CD-ROM case (1275.9), The New York City Transit Authority Station Manager Program: The Problem at 231st Street." The...

Catastrophic Health Insurance for the Elderly: Appendix: CCA Act

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

In 1987, Ronald Reagan proposed changes to the federal Medicare system, which were designed to protect against the costs of "catastrophic illness." His choice seemed to portend an important change in the US social insurance system. And, indeed,...