After his convincing victory in the July 31 presidential elections, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frias has all the power he could possibly want to press forward with his "peaceful revolution."

The end of the Cold War led to a major dip in world arms exports from the late 1980s to mid-1990s. A Rise since the mid-1990s has not brought arms sales back to anything like their Cold War level.

The current NMD program is already a highly compromised system based on some seventeen years of research and development effort. The devolution of SDI into NMD has already sharply reduced many aspects of risk.

This report provides anassessment of the warfighting capability of the Republic of Korea-U.S. Combined ForcesCommand when compared to the armed forces of North Korea.

Violence remains high in Kashmir, and ten years of insurgency have taken a terrible toll on the economy and on ordinary people's lives. Two initiatives in the past few months may have started building a political foundation for peace in Kashmir. In June, the Kashmir State...

recent by-elections and a deal to increase federal funding for Canadian health care
signal the real beginning of the next Canadian general election campaign—a vote likely to
take place next spring (2001).