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The Status And Needs Of Small Businesses Owned And Controlled By Disabled Veterans, Paul R. Camacho
The Status And Needs Of Small Businesses Owned And Controlled By Disabled Veterans, Paul R. Camacho
William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences Publications
This introduction provides a thumbnail sketch, or landscape, of the history and conditions of veterans’ benefits against which to profile the issue of veterans’ small business opportunities. After years of applied research on issues pertaining to the veteran community, it has become abundantly clear to this researcher that the good people who serve in our federal and state agencies, and as staff persons in various congressional and state legislative offices often lack the data and/or information they need to fully and meaningfully address the needs of veterans and their families. This situation is no doubt a result of demographic facts. …
Balkanizing The Balkans, Paul L. Atwood
Balkanizing The Balkans, Paul L. Atwood
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article seeks to place the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Kosovo war in the context of the larger issue of NATO expansion. It argues that the question of ethnic cleansing in that province of Serbia was largely exploited by the United States, the creator and most powerful member of the alliance, to break up the former Yugoslavia, to divide it, and to make it more manageable for Western interests. In the guise of stopping Serb repression, NATO seized an opportunity to build more bases throughout southeastern Europe, including those being constructed in NATO's newest member states, Poland, the Czech Republic, …
Northern Ireland And South Africa: "Hope And History At A Crossroads", Padraig O'Malley
Northern Ireland And South Africa: "Hope And History At A Crossroads", Padraig O'Malley
John M. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies Publications
South African President Mandela addressed his words to the leaders of political parties in Northern Ireland, including David Trimble and Martin McGuinness, at De Hoop, a secured conference facility in Arniston, a small town in the Western Cape.
The conference was dubbed the De Hoop lndaba - lndaba is the Zulu word for a "meeting of the minds." The event, which was hosted by the South African government, brought together the chief negotiators from all parties .in Northern Ireland -the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI), the Social Democratic and …