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Lebanon dismisses Israeli warnings over Hezbollah
BEIRUT AFP — Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salukh dismissed as "ravings" on Thursday Israeli threats to target the country's civilian infrastructure if the government gives greater legitimacy to the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. "Who says the government is giving legitimacy to Hezbollah? ... These are just ravings conjured up...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, Lebanon, legitimacy, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-08-21
G8 leaders likely to strongly condemn Zimbabwe: US
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE AFP — The White House said Saturday that G8 leaders are likely to "strongly condemn" Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and "strongly question" his government's legitimacy, at their Japan summit beginning Monday. Dennis Wilder, the National Security Council's senior director for Asia affairs, said he believed...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Air Force, Government, Japan, leader, Leadership, legitimacy, Zimbabwe
Research articles 2008-07-05
Legitimacy and military operations: the views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense, or any of its agencies
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] America is at war ... We have kept on the offensive against terrorist networks, leaving our enemy weakened, but not yet defeated ... The struggle against this enemy ... has been difficult. And our work is far from over --President George W. Bush, 16 March 2006...
Tags: agency, Al-Qaeda, civilian, COIN, Government, Iraq, Leadership, legitimacy, officer, Torture, U.S., U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Government
Research articles 2008-07-01
Rice denies charges US misled public on Iraq war
STOCKHOLM AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought here Thursday to rally international support for Iraq while denying new charges the Bush administration misled the public into invading the country. The allegations, contained in a harsh new book by President George W. Bush's former chief spokesman, surfaced...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bush, conference, invasion, Iraq, legitimacy, president, Strategy
Research articles 2008-05-29
Venezuelan links to FARC rebels 'highly disturbing': US
WASHINGTON AFP — The United States said Thursday that news reports describing Venezuela's alleged links to Colombian rebels are "highly disturbing," adding it had no reason to doubt their legitimacy. "The picture painted by some of the preliminary reports that I have seen over the last few days is...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, legitimacy, missile, PRODUCTIVITY, rebel, SOFTWARE, Venezuela
Research articles 2008-05-15
Transnational Law and Local Struggles: Mining Communities and the World Bank
Transnational Law and Local Struggles: Mining Communities and the World Bank. By David Szablowski. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing, 2007. Pp. 352. $70.00 cloth; $40.00 paper. Theoretically and empirically, this book offers a provocative and rich discussion on the intersection between transnational law and local struggles that emerge in a...
Tags: FINANCE, legitimacy, World Bank
Research articles 2008-03-01
A perversion of free speech
All the reasons given to provide a platform at Columbia University to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just don't hold up and don't even begin to compare with the damage done by giving legitimacy to a dangerous and evil figure. Of course, the first defense of the...
Tags: Columbia University, Government, legitimacy, president
Research articles 2007-09-24
Military institutional communication its geostrategic importance
Since the end of World War II, the US military has recognized the importance of military institutional communication and has used academic-professional journals as a prime medium for conducting it. Reading the editorial in the fourth-quarter 1999 issue of Airpower Journal, Brazilian edition (now Air and Space Power Journal em...
Tags: Air Force, Brazil, Brazilian, legitimacy, Manufacturing, Strategy, U.S.
Research articles 2007-09-22
Strauss-Kahn hopes to restore IMF's relevance, legitimacy
WASHINGTON AFP — Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the front-runner EU candidate to head the International Monetary Fund, pledged Thursday to work to restore "both the relevance and the legitimacy" of the global organization. "It will be a hard task for all of us to rebuild both the relevance and the legitimacy...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, IMF, legitimacy, Washington
Research articles 2007-09-20
Managing Crises: Lessons for Managers from the SARS Outbreak in China
An examination of the events and responses surrounding the SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome crisis provides a context to analyze crisis management strategy. Herein, we suggest that organizations need to expand the breadth of crisis management to respond proactively to an array of potential threats. Herein, we also introduce an...
Tags: China, epidemic, legitimacy, outbreak, SARS, security, World Health Organization
Research articles 2007-09-01
Hamas chief denies Qaeda links, urges Fatah talks
DOHA AFP — Exiled Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal on Monday denied that Hamas has links with Al-Qaeda or wants an Islamic emirate in Gaza, and repeated the Islamist movement's call for talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. He was speaking a day after an Egyptian security official said the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Al-Qaeda, auspice, Egypt, Government, legitimacy, SECURITY, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2007-07-16
Gulf states call for winding back the clock in Gaza
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia AFP — Oil-rich Gulf Arab monarchies called Thursday for the situation in the Gaza Strip to return to how it was before the Islamist movement Hamas seized control last month. "We demand the return of the situation in the Gaza Strip to how it was before...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, legitimacy, minister, SALES
Research articles 2007-07-05
ARMY Magazine Hooah Guide to COUNTERINSURGENCY COIN, The
A Short Course on a Big Mission: U.S. involvement in counterinsurgency COIN operations and now the American character programmed itself for doing good in bad situations, along with an abbreviated version of the new Field Manual 3-24 Counterinsurgency and the startling shifts insurgency is making-dimensions of warfare heretofore unimaginable and...
Tags: COIN, Government, guerrilla, leader, legitimacy, Philippines, Roman, Rome, security, SOFTWARE, U.S., U.S. Army, Vietnam
Research articles 2007-07-01
Quartet backs 'legitimacy' of Abbas decisions
WASHINGTON AFP — Major power mediators for Middle East peace backed Saturday the "legitimacy" of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas' decisions to sack the Hamas-led unity government and declare a state of emergency. Top diplomats of the so-called Quartet -- the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia --...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, legitimacy, phone, president, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2007-06-16
Palestinian presidency accuses Hamas of plotting coup
GAZA CITY AFP — The Palestinian presidency on Tuesday accused leaders of Hamas of plotting a coup and propelling the Palestinian territories towards civil war as deadly battles raged in the Gaza Strip. "All the information and all the facts point to a faction, to which political and military...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, faction, leader, Leadership, legitimacy, president
Research articles 2007-06-12
Periscope
MEXICO: The Guns of Felipe Calderón Can President Felipe Calderón pull an Alvaro Uribe? Since taking office on Dec. 1, the embattled Mexican president has been aping the tough tactics of his Colombian counterpart. In December, he sent 7,000 troops to Michoacán to destroy marijuana crops; last week, 3,000 soldiers...
Tags: legitimacy, MARKETING, president, researcher, Zagat
Research articles 2007-01-15
Restraining the judges.(The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America)(Book review)
THE MOST DEMOCRATIC BRANCH: HOW THE COURTS SERVE AMERICA BY JEFFREY ROSEN Oxford University Press, 256 pages, $25.00 WORRIED ABOUT STEM-CELL research? Concerned about education, affirmative action, gay marriage, environmental quality, and the criminal-justice system? Do you find campaign fund-raising objectionable?...
Tags: Government, legitimacy, SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2006-12-01
Thai PM makes comeback, after stepping aside amid protests
BANGKOK AFP — Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has staged a political comeback, leading his first cabinet meeting since stepping aside seven weeks ago following street protests and controversial polls. "I have fully returned to work," Thaksin said as he entered government house, adding that he would lead all...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, legitimacy, protest, SOFTWARE, Thailand
Research articles 2006-05-23
Customer objects
A Saline County man is trying to receive class-action status to test the legitimacy of bounced check fees at Arrest Bank. John A. Burks filed the lawsuit in March and said that while he was a customer of Superior Federal Bank, which was acquired by Arvest in 2003, he...
Tags: legitimacy, National Science Foundation
Research articles 2006-05-15
Good governance at the supranational scale: globalizing administrative law.
This Article examines the tension between the demonstrable need for structured international cooperation in a world of interdependence and the political strain that arises whenever policymaking authority is lodged in global institutions. It argues that the tools of administrative law, which have been used to legitimate regulatory decisionmaking in the...
Tags: accountability, Democracy, Environmental, legitimacy, M., OECD, Richard, Robert, rulemaking, Transparency, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2006-05-01
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