National and International Security

Robust Web of Corruption: Peru's Intelligence Chief Vladimiro Montesinos

Publication Date: November 01, 2003

In 1990, President Alberto Fujimori swept to power in Peru on a wave of public enthusiasm for his promised reforms. Indeed, over the next five years Fujimori accomplished something of an economic turnaround miracle. He also vanquished a...

Exercising Leadership in Northern Ireland

Publication Date: October 28, 2003

In December, 1987, 18-year-old Gary McMichael suddenly became the literal heir to the tradition of political violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland. McMichael's father John--a prominent leader of a Protestant "paramilitary" group--was...

When Prevention Can Kill: Epilogue

Publication Date: August 01, 2003

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September, 2001, the United States began to take seriously threats which had, heretofore, been generally discounted. Among these was the possibility of...

When Prevention Can Kill: Minnesota and the Smallpox Vaccine Program

Publication Date: August 01, 2003

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September, 2001, the United States began to take seriously threats which had, heretofore, been generally discounted. Among these was the possibility of...

Command Performance: County Firefighters Take Charge of the 9/11 Pentagon Emergency

Publication Date: June 01, 2003

The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 on the Pentagon brought death and destruction to one of the nerve centers of American power, a site where top military officials came to work every day. When terrorists deliberately crashed a commercial...

Charting a Course in a Storm: US Postal Service and the Anthrax Crisis

Publication Date: May 01, 2003

On October 21, 2001, a postal worker from a mail sorting facility in Washington, DC, died of inhalation anthrax--a disease virtually unseen for a century. The next day, a second employee from the same facility died. Fear of anthrax had already...

Rudy Giuliani: The Man and His Moment

Publication Date: May 01, 2003

In the hours and days following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which destroyed New York's World Trade Center towers, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani distinguished himself, in the view of many, for his style of leadership. A combination...

Listening to the City: Rebuilding at New York's World Trade Center Site (Epilogue)

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

In the wake of the terrorist destruction of the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, city officials--even as rescue and recovery operations continued--also set in motion a process to plan what might be built on the...

Listening to the City: Rebuilding at New York's World Trade Center Site

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

In the wake of the terrorist destruction of the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, city officials--even as rescue and recovery operations continued--also set in motion a process to plan what might be built on the...

White Powder in Georgia: Responding to Cases of Suspected Anthrax After 9/11

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

In October, 2001, a series of anthrax-laced letters resulted in deaths in Florida, New York and Connecticut, in an act of apparent domestic terrorism. As a result, public health authorities throughout the United States were inundated with...

Credible Warnings or False Alarms? What the US Knew on September 10, 2001

Publication Date: October 01, 2002

Well before the fateful morning of September 11, 2001, the threat posed to Americans and the United States by Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda (The Base) network of terrorists was well documented and closely monitored. Two US agencies--the...

International Trade Meets Intellectual Property: The Making of the TRIPS Agreement

Publication Date: August 01, 2002

The focus of international trade negotiations was once quotas and tariffs--how much of a particular product could be imported and the duty levied at the border. As the world economy has experienced deeper integration, attention has shifted away...