THE NEW US ADMINISTRATION: MILITARY-POLITICAL CHALLENGES

Political activism : New challenges , new opportunities

Research on political activism compares the ways that citizens participate, the processes that lead them to do so, and the consequences of these acts. The standard paradigm was established in earlier decades by the seminal works in the social psychological tradition: Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba’s The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations (1963), Sidney Verba an...

Challenges for a New Administration

ove rv i ew The In s ti tute for the Stu dy of Di p l om acy hosted the fall     m eeti n gs of the Sch l e s i n ger Work i n g Group on the topic of po s s i ble forei gn po l i c y s tra tegic su rprises facing the incoming Ad m i n i stra ti on . To provi de a starting point for the discuss i on , working group mem bers iden ti f i ed more than a dozen scen a rios that co u l d : • Ta k...

of Political and Military Sociology

Role of US military research programs in the development of US Food and Drug Administration--approved antimalarial drugs.

US military physicians and researchers helped identify the optimum treatment dose of the naturally occurring compound quinine and collaborated with the pharmaceutical industry in the development and eventual US Food and Drug Administration approval of the synthetic antimalarial drugs chloroquine, primaquine, chloroquine-primaquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, mefloquine, doxycycline, halofantrin...

Influenza in the US Military: An Overview

Circulation of influenza strains in the military has been responsible for clusters of illness among military personnel in the United States and remote areas where they operate, although not usually associated with a high degree of morbidity [1,2]. During the latest 5-year period (2007-2012) for which there is published data by the AFHSC, influenza was found to be responsible for as many as 7,00...