National and International Security

Sunshine and Shadow: The CIA and the Soviet Economy

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

After nearly 40 years of steady, rigorous, remarkably open, and respected analysis of the Soviet economy, the CIA stood accused in the early 1990s of having gotten the answer badly wrong: so much so that Daniel Patrick Moynihan had called for...

US Marines in Lebanon

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The 1983 terrorist bombing of the US Marines barracks in Lebanon, in addition to its tragic toll of 241 dead, has become a quintessential case about the conditions under which military intervention may not be effective.Learning Objective:This...

Reagan Administration and the Soviet Pipeline Embargo

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The Reagan administration decision to impose economic sanctions designed to halt construction of a Soviet gas pipeline built to supply Western Europe led, starting in late 1981, to a serious split among the NATO allies. The administration's...

The Greek Crisis and the Truman Doctrine: A Rationale for Intervention

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case synopsizes the story of the 1947 US decision to provide aid to the government of Greece in its efforts to defeat a communist insurgency. There was little dispute within the Truman administration that such aid was of crucial importance,...

Exposing Police Terror in Spain

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

What is the appropriate form of reaction by a fragile, young democracy to a long-standing threat by separatist terrorists--one which predates the democratic central government itself? That is the question at the core of this case on the reaction...

Democracy and Security in the Dominican Republic: The Kennedy and Johnson Interventions

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case details the twists and turns in the US relationship with the Dominican Republic, primarily between 1959 and 1966--a time during which two American presidents had to balance a theoretical commitment to the Caribbean nation's right to...

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...

Arciniega's War in the Upper Huallaga Valley

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case supplements the geopolitical framework of Coca and the Shining Path in the Upper Huallaga Valley (C16-90-1020.0) by examining the strategy of a specific military officer charged with ending Marxist guerrilla domination of Peru's chief...

Taking the Helm: Richard Cheney at the Department of Defense

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

Wyoming Congressman Richard Cheney had long been a faithful supporter of Pentagon spending and new weapons systems. But when, in the wake of the failed nomination of Texas Senator John Tower, Cheney almost overnight finds himself appointed...