Center for Global Risk and Security
The RAND Center for Global Risk and Security (CGRS) reflects the need for a focal point for cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research and analysis on the increasingly complex issue of global security. It draws on RAND’s unparalleled breadth of related expertise – from strategy to health to technology and criminal justice – and expands upon RAND’s long history of excellence in informing security policy by exploring innovative new areas of inquiry that cut across traditional perspectives. Led by an advisory board of distinguished individuals from varied angles of vision on security and risk, the Center will develop a better understanding of the variety of security threats, and then decide on deeper research dives where RAND’s special range of competences can make a difference in framing categories of possible response.
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When Generals and Ambassadors Feud — Nov. 13, 2009
Take it from this former ambassador: Disagreements over the war in Afghanistan may do more long-term harm than short-term good as discussed by James Dobbins in this commentary that appeared on ForeignPolicy.com.
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The Fall of the Wall: A World Restored? — Nov. 9, 2009
The fall of the Berlin Wall retains its status as an epoch–making event in modern world history. At the time, several adversaries feared that a reunited Germany would revert to the militarism of its past, as discussed in this commentary by Christopher S. Chivvis for CNN.com
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Study of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Questions Assumptions Behind “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — Nov. 9, 2009
A new study about the U.S. military&rsdquo;s “Don’t Ask, Don’t TellRdquo; policy questions the assumption that allowing openly gay and lesbian military personnel to serve in the U.S. armed forces could harm military readiness.
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RAND Experts Available To Discuss Possible Abbas Resignation and Palestinian Issues — Nov. 6, 2009
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has indicated that he may not seek reelection, which could affect efforts to secure stability in the Middle East. Today RAND released the conclusions drawn from a series of exercises that examined the challenges of the Arab-Israeli conflict – and of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular.
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Our Man in Kabul — Nov. 4, 2009
Abdullah Abdullah was the first Afghan to suggest Hamid Karzai should become president of Afghanistan, however he cautioned that his view was not shared by all his comrades in the alliance as discussed in this commentary by James Dobbins that appeared in Foreignaffairs.com.
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