SFRC Hearing: Today, Rajiv Shah’s Nomination for USAID
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONSUNITED STATES SENATE111th CONGRESS1st Session Presiding: Senator KerryDate: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Time: 10:00 A.M. Building: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building NOMINEE: Rajiv J. Shah, of Washington ,to be Administrator of the United States Agencyfor International Development (USAID) The prepared testimony and video should be posted in

Revisiting the Powell Doctrine
Image via WikipediaAlexander Wolf, a PhD candidate at the University of the Armed Forces, Munich, and a research assistant at the Academy for Politics and Current Affairs had a piece in the Winter issue of Strategic Studies Quarterly: U.S. Interventions Abroad: A Renaissance of the Powell Doctrine?. In his piece he suggests that “By chronicling the doctrinal premises of US intervention policy

Diplopundit's Blog Index for November 2009
2009 Influenza Pandemic: Border Entry Issues Fm the Good News Dept: Mobile Computing for State SFRC Report: How We Failed to Get Osama bin Laden Video of the Week: Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future. What Are We Doing in Afghanistan? Ambassador Neumann on Corruption in Afghanistan Reconsider the Role of the PRTs? Happy Thanksgiving! SFRC Website Finally Gets a Make Over, Sort

2009 Influenza Pandemic: Border Entry Issues
The Congressional Research Service recently prepared a report on the 2009 Influenza Pandemic for Congress. The report provides a brief overview of selected legal issues including emergency measures, civil rights, liability issues, and employment issues. The report also contains interesting snippets on inadmissibility under INA, border quarantines and border closure. Inadmissibility of

Fm the Good News Dept: Mobile Computing for State
Image by angermann via FlickrLast week, I wrote about the Hard Skills Training Center, one of the State Department’s $600 million funding for seven projects and a funds transfer to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Part of the Capital Investment Fund for FY 2009 (Stimulus Funds) are the following projects for