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In many aspects, policies toward North Korea have been driven by perceptions of its regime & prospects for its future. Handling Pyongyang, however, includes dealing with various critical issues, such as weapons of mass destruction, human rights violations, Korean unification, the US-ROK alliance, & stability in East Asia. Those issues must be carefully prioritized for any effective coordination between Washington & Seoul. Engagement or containment alone will not untangle these complex issues. A more cautious, gradual, & selective approach is required. Adapted from the source document.

Ce partenariat vise à prévenir les dangers de destruction qui pèsent sur la seconde forêt tropicale au monde : 200 millions d'hectares soit 6 % de la surface forestière mondiale. Il repose sur le renforcement des capacités nationales et régionales dans les trois domaines clés du développement durable : l'environnement, l'économie et le social. L'ambition affichée à court terme est d'appuyer la gestion efficace d'un réseau de 10 millions d'hectares de parcs nationaux et d'aires protégées et de 20 millions d'hectares de concessions forestières aménagées.

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Multilateral export control regimes are consensus-based, voluntary arrangements of supplier countries that produce technologies useful in developing weapons of mass destruction or conventional weapons. The regimes aim to restrict trade in these technologies to keep them from proliferating states or terrorists. The United States seeks to improve the effectiveness of these regimes. GAO was asked to (1) assess weaknesses of the four regimes and (2) identify obstacles faced in trying to strengthen them."

Abstract This thesis studies the relation between royal power and political elites of Lyon throughout the rule of the kings Henri IV and Louis XIII. If the classical historiography thinks this age is the destruction of towns' liberty, the case of Lyon incites to recapitulate this interpretation. Indeed, between 1594 and 1654, the history of the second city of the realm gives evidence of the political identity's vitality that invites to go into more details of the modern State 's construction.

Financing civil wars in Africa depends of the export of raw materials like diamonds or oil as well on the side of government as on the side of rebels. Transnational corporation get big profits by these exports, especially in the monopolised sector of diamond industries. In result, there exists not only an "unequal exchange" because of bad terms of trade, but a "disparate exchange": natural wealth is exchanged against waste products like weapons and the use of these weapons leads to further destruction and misery.

This roundtable was held on 28 Sept, 2001 with 13 nonproliferation & arms control specialists, including current & former government officials & nongovernmental analysts. The topics explored in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were terrorism using weapons of mass destruction, the international nonproliferation regime, US-Russian relations, & regions involved in proliferation, especially Iran, Iraq, & South Asia. Sept. 11 is expected to have an effect on US policies related to proliferation. In the longer term, it is hoped that the US will embrace multilateralism in nonproliferation & arms control. M. Pflum

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed companies in the chemical, agricultural, and brewing industries inspected under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (Chemical Weapons Convention), focusing on: (1) how companies protect proprietary information during inspections; (2) any adverse publicity for companies as a result of being inspected; and (3) the costs to companies of being inspected."

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed federal efforts to combat terrorism, focusing on the: (1) need to link threats to strategies and resources in federal efforts to combat terrorism; (2) need to improve federal and state intergovernmental coordination and program issues; and (3) findings of a report from the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction--better known as the Gilmore Panel."

During the war on the Balkan one thing was certain for the NATO; amongst military air attack objectives the infrastructure in Serbia and the Kosovo will be the other target. In the course of action it turned out quickly that failures regarding military objects were compensated for extremely enhanced destruction of essential infrastructure: industry, transportation, lakes and rivers, etc. Subject of this article are consequences regarding damages to the environment and health hazards which are discussed in connection with eventual violation of human rights. (Prokla / FUB)

In response to Elise Boulding's (2000) question of whether there is a new chance for human peaceableness, this commentary starts by spelling out the four major problems left from the last century: poverty, violence, ecological destruction, & discrimination, especially against women, children, ethnic & minority groups, & the elderly. Then, against a brief historical background & following a description of a disillusioning experience at the Second Hague Conference in 1999, it charts a possible way to a culture of peace. 5 References. Adapted from the source document.