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Strategic Planning For Combating Terrorism: A Critical Examination, Arsalan Suleman
Strategic Planning For Combating Terrorism: A Critical Examination, Arsalan Suleman
Arsalan Suleman
This article engages in a thorough assessment of the Bush Administration's main security strategy documents related to combating terrorism, namely the 2002 and 2006 National Security Strategy documents, the 2003 National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, and the 2006 National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism. First, the article assesses the value and importance of strategy documents and the utility in analyzing them. Second, the strategies are analyzed based on the process by which they were authored, the structural elements of the strategy, and the strategy's content. Third, the article discusses the overall content of counter-terrorism strategy and makes …
A New Paternity Law For The Twenty-First Century: Of Biology, Social Function, Children's Interests And Betrayal, Leslie J. Harris
A New Paternity Law For The Twenty-First Century: Of Biology, Social Function, Children's Interests And Betrayal, Leslie J. Harris
Leslie J. Harris
In 2007 an Oregon law reform commission charged a large work group of more than 20 attorneys, child support and child welfare agency administrators, judges, and lobbyists with proposing a comprehensive revision of the state’s paternity laws, the first in more than 30 years. The group began with the 2002 Uniform Parentage Act as a model but quickly abandoned it, finally settling on a proposal that was enacted into law with few revisions. This article describes the issues and compromises that underlie the law, particularly clashing visions of the appropriate criteria for legal fatherhood, tensions between the interests of adults …