Presidential Powers and Foreign Affairs: Executive Power and International Crises: Preventing Mass Atrocity Crimes: The Responsibility to Protect and the Syria CrisisThe Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is a complicat...
Ahead of any meaningful traction on its foreign policy agenda, the Iranian government had to re-engage its electorate, something it has accomplished with this election. Tellingly, aside from current nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, seven of the eight candidates approved to run in this election camp...
Define Presidential Issue. Presidential Issue synonyms, Presidential Issue pronunciation, Presidential Issue translation, English dictionary definition of Presidential Issue. n. pl. prex·ies Slang A president, especially of a college or university. Amer
While domestic politics and labor relations fall outside the scope of presidential powers in Finland, these issues entered the race against the backdrop of the unanimity on security and foreign policy. Advance balloting for the second round begins on Wednesday, January 31, and ends on February 6...
In what’s known as theIran-Contra affair,conduct involving unmistakable official foreign policy powers of the president was subjected to intense criminal scrutiny; that affair actually concerned selling arms to Iran in exchange for American hostages as part of a presidentially aut...
While the United States was not the first country to conduct elections, it was the first to implement a Presidential election system under a constitutional framework that established a representative democracy with a clear separation of powers. ...
Romania's president serves a five-year term, with a maximum of two consecutive terms allowed, and has significant decision-making powers in areas including defence spending, national security, foreign policy and judicial appointments.■ Independent candidate Calin Georgescu speaks to the media in front...
As president,Trump jettisoned the landmark Iran nuclear deal,signed in 2015 by President Obamaand five other world powers. It had successfully curbed Iran’s nuclear program, but Trump claimed it did not go far enough in stopping other Iranian “malign behavior,” such as suppor...
When Trump blocked the release of aid money to Ukraine around the same time, intelligence officials and congressional Democrats said the call was evidence Trump had abused the powers of the presidency to attempt to discredit his main rival in the upcoming 2020 election, Joe Biden. The House ...
“I think the use of presidential pardon powers is really unfettered and vast, and what I’m looking for, at this point is some kind of criteria, limitations on the use of presidential pardon powers, and that’s where I’d like to go,” she said. Both senators expressed concerns with...