American Foreign Policies

Contradictory policies for foreign medical graduates.

Health, human rights and Australia's foreign policies.

International human rights law affirms that everyone has a right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. States that are parties to human rights treaties are obliged under international law to observe these rights. Australia has ratified all international human rights law instruments in which the right to health is enshrined, and so is obliged to ensur...

The choice for multilateralism: Foreign aid and American foreign policy

Why do governments choose multilateralism? We examine a principalagent model in which states trade some control over the policy for greater burden sharing. The theory generates observable hypotheses regarding the reasons for and the patterns of support and opposition to multilateralism. To focus our study, we analyze support for bilateral and multilateral foreign aid giving in the US. Using new...

Foreign Language Education Policies in Iran: Pivotal Macro Considerations

Foreign Language Education Policy (FLEP) needs to be understood as part of broader educational policies and as situated within overarching social macro plans. In this paper, based on a conception of policy as distinct from goals and objectives, and with a view of the relevant literature, we will present some theoretical guidelines of setting and/or evaluating foreign language education policies...

American Stroke Association guideline policies.

American Stroke Association Guideline Policies To the Editor: Practice guidelines, particularly those originating from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, have come a very long way since the traditional GOBSAT (“good old boys sat at table”) methods of the 1980s. The best of recent guidelines are systematic, transparent, reproducible, with recommendations stratified by st...