'American Mourning' is the story of two families?the Johnsons and the Sheehans?that lost sons in the war on terror. Their sons were buddies?best friends since they first met at Fort Hood in Texas?but the two families have little else in common.

While little recognized in international law scholarship, multilateral treaties in diverse fields have begun to apply strategic management techniques to make them more effective and responsive. This examination of those practices and their interplay with associated international organizations considers the application of strategic management across treaties' planning, financing, implementation, and evaluation activities. The study leads to a new appreciation of the intricacies of multilateral treaty activities and a better understanding of their operations within complex webs of networked...