Cases

Fighting the Drug Trade in Link Valley

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

When an apartment complex near a freeway interchange becomes a drug supermarket, frustrated Houston police confront the limits of traditional crime control methods. Specifically, they find that responding to a growing number of increasingly...

Seeking the Extradition of Mohammed Rashid

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This is the culminating case in a series of six which explore the relationship among terrorism, politics, and Western legal systems. In this, the focus is on the domestic political consequences in Greece which result from a US request that the...

Constructive Engagement in Angola and Namibia: The Ethics of Coercive Negotiation

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case explores the US role in attempting to craft a settlement of disputes in two Southern African nations: Namibia, an illegally-controlled colony of South Africa under siege by a black guerilla movement, and Angola, where a leftist...

Coca and the Shining Path in Peru's Upper Huallaga Valley: Two Presidents' Approaches

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

Two ominous developments in the Peru of the 1980s--the emergence of a Marxist guerrilla movement and a growing export trade in coca leaves bound for the US street drug market--prove to be unexpectedly related. Effectively dealing with one...

Bringing Terror to Justice: The Extraterritorial Arrest of Fawaz Yunis

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

In the spring of 1987, officials of the National Security Council inter-agency group dealing with counter-terrorism learned of the whereabouts of Fawaz Yunis, a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a Jordanian airliner during the course of which...

Joint Service Programs and the Nature of Commitment

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

Major defense procurement, in part because of the magnitude of the cost of significant new weapons systems, is often undertaken as a joint effort among the various branches of the armed forces. So it is that decisions to participate in a joint...

DARPA and High Definition Systems: For Home or For War?

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The increase in military budgets during the 1980s set off renewed discussion of the impact of Pentagon spending on the civilian economy. Like the powdered orange juice developed by NASA for astronauts, could items developed for the military be...

High Price of Free Speech: Story of a Guatemalan Journalist

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case provides students of journalism, law and international affairs with a vivid picture of the effects of political and physical intimidation on the press. When a democratic government succeeds military rule in Guatemala, former engineer...

The Regulation of Mud Flaps

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

When Congress calls for new regulations governing the size and effectiveness of truck mud flaps, small companies which had dominated the mud flap market suddenly find themselves in trouble. Failure to adapt their products to the new regulations...

Constructive Engagement in South Africa: The Ethics of Persuasion

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case joins the debate surrounding the approach of constructive engagement, placing it in the context of South Africa itself and presenting the moral justification for the policy as put forward both by President Reagan and Assistant...

A Problem at the Housing Authority (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The executive director of a housing authority in a southwestern state uncovers evidence of collusion between the board of directors and a local realty corporation. After apparent attempts by the board president at bribery and intimidation, the...

A Problem at the Housing Authority

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The executive director of a housing authority in a southwestern state uncovers evidence of collusion between the board of directors and a local realty corporation. After apparent attempts by the board president at bribery and intimidation, the...