One of the major concerns for current foreign policy leaders in the United States is the impact of failed states. This view is reflected in the text of the most current U.S. National Security Strategy of the United States, (March 2006). The strategy says clearly, “The goal of our statecraft is to help create a world of democratic, well governed states.” Furthermore, “It is the policy of the Uni...

Many nations have undergone changes in health care financing and services. The public notices policy changes in health care and frequently bears new and unexpected costs or barriers to care unwillingly. This paper presents data from surveys of about 1,000 adults conducted during April-June 1998 in each of five countries--Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States-...

The 20th century was characterized by substantial change on a global scale. There were multiple wars and unrest, social and political transitions, technological innovation and widespread development that impacted every corner of the earth. In order to assess the sustainability implications of these changes, we conducted a study of three advanced nations particularly affected during this time: F...

Where We Are and How We Got Here In the autumn of 2012, the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine became the first medical school in the nation to amend its admissions policy to welcome applications from “DREAMers”—undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, i.e., prior to the age of 16, and have been raised and educated in the United States for mor...

Online video, a ubiquitous, visual, and highly shareable medium, is well-suited to crossing geographic, cultural, and linguistic barriers. Trending videos in particular, by virtue of reaching a large number of viewers in a short span of time, are powerful as both influencers and indicators of international communication flows. In this work, we study a large set of videos trending across 57 nati...

Available online public/governmental services requiring authentication by citizens have considerably expanded in recent years. This has hindered the usability and security associated with credential management by users and service providers. To address the problem, some countries have proposed nation-scale identification/authentication systems that intend to greatly reduce the burden of credent...

This essay examines the definition and various roles of the United States and its inhabitants in Carlos Bulosan’s semi-autobiographical America is in the Heart, a classic work of Asian American literature. The myriad of American characters in the novel reveal a vast diversity in the American population. America is in the Heart charts the paradox of the United States in the first half of the 20 ...

The link between environmental degradation and international security has attracted new attention due to the publication of the United Nations report A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, authored by the High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, a group of experts assembled by Kofi Annan and tasked with advising the Security Council about new global threats. The panel specif...

The United States is the only western industrialized nation that fails to provide universal coverage and the only nation where health care for the majority of the population is financed by for-profit, minimally regulated private insurance companies. These arrangements leave one-sixth of the population uninsured at any given time, and they leave others at risk of losing insurance as a result of ...

THE economic and industrial development of the western continent is comparatively recent. The abundance of the natural resources in the new world made the consideration of their exhaustion a subject of little public interest. The increasing rapidity in the depletion of these resources, particularly in the most populous and best industrially developed of the American republics, has within recent...