Setting the Stage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Verdini Trejo
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Hydrocarbon Reservoirs ◽  
The Other ◽  
White House ◽  
Crucial Step ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
The U.S

Explores how the Mexican and U.S. negotiators, after decades of mistrust and confrontation, jump-started the binational negotiations over the Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbons reservoirs. Getting the Other Side to the Table explores how Mexico was able to convince the U.S. to start negotiations. Due to changing political and resource-availability contexts on both sides of the border, along with the strategic engagement of industry stakeholders, after years of deadlock, Mexico was finally able to persuade the U.S. of the need to create a framework through which to co-manage transboundary hydrocarbon reservoirs. Getting Your Own Side to the Table, examines how the U.S. federal stakeholders (including the Department of Interior, Department of State, and the White House), through the thoughtful leadership of key individuals, were able to address the politics and logistical hurdles in order to bring the necessary people to the their own side of the table. This crucial step of gathering key U.S. negotiators involved creative adaptations of both formal and informal processes.

Basic U. S. Sources For Current Research In International Law: An Elementary Vade-Mecum

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolf Sprudzs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intergovernmental Organizations ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Many ◽  
The U.S

Among the many old and new actors on the international stage of nations the United States is one of the most active and most important. The U.S. is a member of most existing intergovernmental organizations, participates in hundreds upon hundreds of international conferences and meetings every year and, in conducting her bilateral and multilateral relations with the other members of the community of nations, contributes very substantially to the development of contemporary international law. The Government of the United States has a policy of promptly informing the public about developments in its relations with other countries through a number of documentary publication, issued by the Department of State

The Creation of the Tribunals

2016 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-190
Author(s):  
Michael J. Matheson ◽  
David Scheffer
Keyword(s):  
War Crimes ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Judicial Proceedings ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The U.S

This article offers a U.S. perspective on the creation of the Yugoslav and Rwanda criminal tribunals as each nears its conclusion following more than twenty years of judicial proceedings. During the period in which the tribunals were created, one of us (MJM) was the Acting Legal Adviser or Principal Deputy Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, and the other (DS) was Senior Adviser and Counsel to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was subsequently the first U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues. Given the leading role played by the United States in the process of creating the tribunals, we hope that our perspective might help to illuminate the critical issues faced at that time.

The White House Conferences on Children: An Historical Perspective

1973 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rochelle Beck
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
White House ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Traffic Jam ◽  
Administrative Agencies ◽  
Department Of Commerce ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Hill

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. The jam is moving toward the Hill where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of the Government. In that traffic jam are all kinds of vehicles ... There are all kinds of conveyances, for example, that the Army can put into the street—tanks, gun carriages, trucks ... There are the hayricks and the hinders and the ploughs and all the other things that the Department of Agriculture manages to put into the streets ... the handsome limousines in which the Department of Commerce rides ... the barouches in which the Department of State rides in such dignity. It seems to me as I stand on the sidewalk watching it become more congested and more difficult, and then because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Building a Model Public History Program: The Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
KRISTIN L. AHLBERG
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Public History ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
State Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
White House ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Outreach Programs ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
The U.S

Abstract The Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State, responsible for the production and publication of the Foreign Relations of the United States series, has survived hard times with respect to human and financial resources and public criticism, in the last decade of the twentieth century, to emerge as a model for the conduct of public history at the onset of the twenty-first century. The Office meets the mission of the State Department by providing policy-supportive historical studies for the Secretary of State, other State Department principals, and the White House and by engaging in an ever-expanding series of historical outreach programs aimed at new and old audiences. Serving its institutional client in this way has allowed the Office to increase its connections and find common ground not only with diplomatic historians but also with public historians and others in the larger historical profession.

Red Snapper: Ecology and Fisheries in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Site Fidelity ◽  
Habitat Type ◽  
The Other ◽  
Red Snapper ◽  
Lutjanus Campechanus ◽  
Daily Growth ◽  
Fish Movements ◽  
Location Data ◽  
The U.S

<em>Abstract.</em>—Site fidelity and movements of red snapper <em>Lutjanus campechanus </em>off the coast of Texas were estimated from two tagging programs conducted aboard recreational boats. In one program, we tagged 5,614 red snapper at over 200 fishing sites between July 2002 and August 2005 using hook-and-line gear; fishermen and others reported 130 recaptured fish (a 2.3% return rate), 82 of which included location data. About 54% of the recaptured fish had moved, with an average movement of 20.4 km. In the other program, over 9,000 fish were tagged between 1983 and 2006, but only 68 records of fish tagged between 1986 and 2000 could be analyzed due to computer problems. Of the recaptured fish, 60 could be analyzed for movement, and 17 fish (28%) had moved an average of 19.1 km. Important predictors of movement in at least one program or analysis were depth, habitat type, isolation of the initial capture location, time at liberty, and fish size. Red snapper showed a higher probability of movement from capture sites that were in deep water (>40 m), natural rather than artificial structures, and isolated from other sites rather than clustered. Differences in movement from natural versus artificial sites may have been related to red snapper ‘sub-cohort’ behavior, (the tendency of small groups of red snapper to associate together), as the majority of fish that moved were members of sub-cohorts. Larger fish had a higher probability of movement than smaller fish. In one program, fish movements increased with increasing time at liberty, which is similar to past studies on red snapper site fidelity. In the other program, movements decreased with increasing time at liberty, but this was probably a bias caused by the spatial and temporal scale of the recapture effort. Red snapper that moved showed a higher average daily growth rate between capture and recapture than fish that were stationary, suggesting that movements may be beneficial for red snapper. The spatial scale of fish movements in this study, although larger than in other studies without hurricanes or translocation of fish, was still small enough to support the idea that red snapper populations in the northern Gulf of Mexico are relatively isolated, and that there may be a separate demographic stock off Texas.

The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

1983 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 913-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Nash Leich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The U.S

In a notice issued by David P. Stewart, Administrator for Iranian Claims, under date of June 24, 1983, the Department of State informed claimants before the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal at The Hague of recent developments at the Tribunal with specific regard to settlement of claims. The notice read in part:On two recent occasions, the Tribunal had refused to certify as Tribunal awards settlements submitted by U.S. claimants and Iran. In one case the amount of the proposed settlement significantly exceeded the amount of the claim. In the other, the settlement was in the full amount of the claim plus interest, but the settlement required that, after the settlement had been paid from the Security Account at the N.V. Settlement Bank of Netherlands, more than half of the amount of the settlement would be paid to Iran for taxes allegedly owed. The U.S. claimant had previously denied that any such taxes were owed. The United States—and, to the best of the Department of State’s knowledge, all U.S. claimants—has consistently denied that Iranian counterclaims for taxes are within the Tribunal’s jurisdiction.

Life Beyond 1MeV

1980 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 30-33
Author(s):  
K.H. Westmacott
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Good Case ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The U.S

Life beyond 1MeV – like life after 40 – is not too different unless one takes advantage of past experience and is receptive to new opportunities. At first glance, the returns on performing electron microscopy at voltages greater than 1MeV diminish rather rapidly as the curves which describe the well-known advantages of HVEM often tend towards saturation. However, in a country with a significant HVEM capability, a good case can be made for investing in instruments with a range of maximum accelerating voltages. In this regard, the 1.5MeV KRATOS HVEM being installed in Berkeley will complement the other 650KeV, 1MeV, and 1.2MeV instruments currently operating in the U.S. One other consideration suggests that 1.5MeV is an optimum voltage machine – Its additional advantages may be purchased for not much more than a 1MeV instrument. On the other hand, the 3MeV HVEM's which seem to be operated at 2MeV maximum, are much more expensive.

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