Foreign Affairs, Defense, And Trade : Key Issues for the 108Th Congress

By Kapp, Lawrence

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Title:	Foreign Affairs, Defense, And Trade : Key Issues for the 108Th Congress
Author:	Kapp, Lawrence
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Language:	English
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Kapp, B. L. (n.d.). Foreign Affairs, Defense, And Trade : Key Issues for the 108Th Congress. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Summary: The 108th Congress will be faced early on with a number of pressing foreign affairs, defense, and trade issues. This report provides background information on the issues most likely to be taken up in the first session, analyzes the congressional role in shaping U.S. policy on these key issues, and lists CRS products that provide more detailed discussion and analysis. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon dramatically altered the U.S. political environment, pushing issues of war and homeland security to the top of the policy agenda. Of particular concern to Congress will be the progress of the ongoing war on terrorism, a possible war with Iraq, the unfolding crisis with North Korea, and dealing with the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missiles. Each of these topics receives particular attention in this report.

Table of Contents
Contents U.S. Foreign, Security, and Trade Policy in a New Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The War On Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 International Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Threat from Al Qaeda and Other Terrorist Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Intelligence Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Military Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Philippines, Gruzia (Georgia), and Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Covert Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Budgetary Aspects of the War on Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Reconstruction of Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Possible War with Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Military Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Estimates of the Cost of a Potential War with Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Possible Post War Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 North Korean Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missile Proliferation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Foreign Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 U.S. Foreign Aid and Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Millennium Challenge Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 HIV/AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Humanitarian Crises and Refugees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Authorization of World Bank and IDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Economic Sanctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Europe/Eurasia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 NATO: Enlargement and Future Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Stability in the Balkans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Russia and U.S.-Russia Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Andean Regional Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .