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Information as a Factor of U.S. Smart Strategy

... and the Democratic Party certainly have fundamental contradictions with the Republican majority on several sensitive matters, cybersecurity being one of them, as legislators have been working on a cybersecurity act for almost a decade. In the previous Congress, the White House was twice about to veto the GOP bill, citing poor privacy guarantees and insufficiently strict requirements for information security in the private sector. In January, some time before the SOTU, Mr. Obama brought up his cybersecurity ...

29.01.2015

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Domestic Political Logic in US Foreign Policy

... means in essence that domestic political decisions often become hostages to the internal political situation. Why did President Obama have to sign the Magnitsky Act? If he had not, this document would have been perceived simply as a shot coming from US congressmen. However, President Barack Obama has a vast and important social programme that he would not be able to implement without the support of Congress, controlled largely by Republicans and with whom the Democratic president finds it difficult to negotiate. It may be easier to ...

19.12.2013

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