The last eight years have created radical realignments in Australia's political landscape. The Prime Minister's bitterest enemies are precisely the same people who would once have been Australian Liberalism's stalwarts. The author writes on the legacy of Australia's culture wars. For responses, see EJ848173: "Aussie Battler, or Worldly Opportunist?" ( James Walter); EJ848174: "Mr Howard Goes to Washington--and Brings Home Victory" (Dennis Glover); and EJ848175:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Higher Education, Terrorism, National Security,...
This study was designed to investigate the fears of children and adolescents in Alabama in the aftermath of 9/11 and after the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003. The American Fear Survey Schedule for Children (FSSC-AM; Burnham, 1995, 2005) was utilized to measure the fears of youth in Grades 2-12. (Contains 4 tables.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Fear, Student Surveys, National Security, Safety, Anxiety Disorders, Stress...
This Fact Sheet reports findings from an ongoing study of the representation of 9/11 and terrorism in curricula, textbooks, and state standards documents. The study was conducted in three stages. The first two stages focused on how supplemental curricula and best-selling social studies textbooks published between 2002-2010 present the events of 9/11 and their aftermath to secondary school students. In 2011, a third stage of the study was added. This stage extended the previous ones by including...
Topics: ERIC Archive, United States History, Terrorism, Air Transportation, Suicide, Curriculum...
This essay is based from the author's presentation at "U.S. Foreign Policy and the Modern Middle East", a Summer Institute for Teachers sponsored by The American Institute for History Education and The Wachman Center of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, held June 25-27, 2009, in Philadelphia. This presentation addresses ways to understand the war on terror, or as the author calls it, the "long war"; as well as "jihadism"; and also how to teach these issues to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Muslims, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, History Instruction, High School...
The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2009 proceedings, see ED504973.]
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Studies, Proverbs, Social Justice, Global Approach, Photography, Visual Aids,...
On March 28-29, 2009, FPRI's Wachman Center hosted 43 teachers from across the country for a weekend of discussion on teaching the nuclear age. In his opening remarks, Walter A. McDougall observed that although students today are not made to crawl under their desks in air raid drills, that atomic power remains, and it is still necessary to raise a nuclear-literate generation. Sessions included: (1) Nuclear Weapons (Jeremy Bernstein); (2) Nuclear Weapons in International Politics (Andrew L....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Weapons, War, International Relations, World History, Terrorism, Power Structure,...
On May 3-4, 2003, the Foreign Policy Research Institute held its tenth History Institute for Teachers. Forty-two teachers from fourteen states participated in a weekend of lectures and seminars, featuring seven outstanding scholars. Although Muslims define themselves and the Christian West in terms of religion, Western countries view relations among themselves and with Islam in national terms. Understanding America's distinctive encounter with Islam is fundamental to understanding both the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Islam, Muslims, Arabs, Conflict, Politics, Foreign Policy, Foreign Countries, Western...
Understanding the current conflicts and political changes in the Middle East us important for American educators if American students are to understand the dynamics of the region. To discuss these issues, FPRI held its 12th History Institute for Teachers on October 16-17, 2004. Forty teachers from 15 states attended the weekend program at the Gregg Conference Center in Bryn Mawr, PA, sponsored by Mason Crest Publishers and Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Fox. Sessions included: (1) The Future of Saudi...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, International Relations, Peace, World Affairs,...
At its Summer 2003 meeting, the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) engaged the questions of America's role in the post-Sept.11, 2001 world. Following a series of panel presentations, BHEF members specifically examined the important issues of sustaining, legitimating, and using American power. Six major foreign policy challenges facing the United States were identified: (1) Defeating Islamist terrorism; (2) Stemming the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; (3) Extending the benefits...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Global Approach, International Relations, Foreign Countries,...
After September 11, 2001, complaints were voiced around the world, including by the U.S. government, that Saudi Arabian schools demonize the West and the "other." Senior Saudi government spokesmen also acknowledged this as a problem, and have repeatedly pledged that reform is underway or completed. This report was written in response to concerns over whether adequate reforms have been implemented in the Saudi government's educational system. Findings contradict Saudi Arabia's public...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Muslims, Jews, Freedom, Textbooks, Ideology, Educational Change, Foreign Countries,...
This report endeavors to explore one ot those many elusive variables in the complicated confrontation environment of the Middle East. That variable includes consideration of the inherent strength and political influence of the Palestinian Resistance Movement, and why and how since the first al Fatah raid of 1965 Syria has proven to be, if not the most consistent, as least the most practically helpful of those Arab regimes who have at one time or another chosen to patronize the movement. In...
Topics: DTIC Archive, L'Heureux, Richard J, AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH,...
Topics concerned with the experiments and problems of self-rule in Third World societies are presented in nine essays. The essays are: (1) "Democracy in Iran: The Untenable Dream" (John D. Stempel); (2) "Afghanistan's Struggle for National Liberation" (Hafizullah Emadi); (3) "Turkey's Experience with Political Democracy" (Paul J. Magnarella); (4) "Reasons for the Failure of Democracy in African Countries Which Have Become Independent Since 1960" (Roland...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conflict Resolution, Democracy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Dissent,...
This document describes a National Security Council (NSC) role playing exercise designed to introduce students to the complexities and dynamics of U.S. foreign policy crisis management. Based upon the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) program, "In the Face of Terrorism," this classroom exercise casts students as NSC team members charged with the responsibility of responding to a hypothetical airline hijacking incident. Following a review of the organization and the structure of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Class Activities, Crisis Management, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Higher...
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Title 22 - United States Code -- 2011 - Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE ( OF NATIONS ) Sections 1 - 8551. Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE Sections 1 - 8551. CHAPTER 1 - DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE GENERALLY (sections 1 - 136) Secs. 1 to 7 - Repealed. Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 957, title XI, §1131(32)-(37), (49), (66), 60 Stat. 1037 Sec. 8 - Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 645 Sec. 9 - Repealed....
Topics: CONSULAR COURTS, UNITED STATES COURT FOR CHINA, PASSPORTS, PRESERVATION OF FRIENDLY FOREIGN...
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he United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled, the disenfranchised and the dispossessed and by their self-appointed delegates, the intelligentsia. Yet, even by historical standards, America seems to be provoking blanket repulsion.
Topics: terrorism, bush, USA, Afghanistan, iraq, bible, clinton, America, macedonia, NATO, KOSOVO, Serbia,...
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Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary; Cabale News Service; Travus T. Hipp; KPIG; News; Alternative News; Commentary; Philosophy; Satire; Spoken Word; Politics; History; Current Events; U.S. Foreign Policy; U.S. Domestic Policy; Breaking Politics News; Al Qaeda; al Qaeda; Al Qaida; al-Qaeda; Al-Qaida; Alternative News; American Military Occupation; American Occupation; Anti-Terrorism Law; Armenian Genocide; Armenian Massacre; Authoritarian; Authoritarian State; Baghdad; Benazir Bhutto;...
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A review of case studies on Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran in the post 9-11 world.
Topics: Terrorism, 9-11, Al Qaida, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Grogan, Bush, CENTCOM, U.S. Foreign Policy,...