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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Improved U.S.-Turkish Relations Are Vital to Better Security in the Persian Gulf and Middle East — Feb. 3, 2010
The United States can take a major step in improving the security environment in the Middle East and Persian Gulf by giving new impetus to revitalizing its security partnership with Turkey, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.
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Managing Catastrophic North Korea Risks — Jan. 22, 2010
The ROK and U.S. commanders continue to be confident that they could stop any North Korean invasion, but at what cost to the South Korean population and infrastructure? This is the subject of a commentary by Bruce W. Bennett that appeared in The Korea Herald.
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Terrorists Will Strike America Again — Jan. 19, 2010
The United States can do better at catching would-be attackers, but at what cost to our own freedom and that of legitimate foreign visitors? This is the subject of a commentary by Gregory F. Treverton that appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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Skip the Graft — Jan. 17, 2010
The latest disaster to befall Haiti creates the opportunity to combine bipartisan accord on Haiti in Washington with keen and perhaps sustained American public interest. This is the subject of a commentary by James Dobbins that appeared in The New York Times.
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The Coming Afghanistan Surge—and the Severely Wounded — Jan. 15, 2010
With over 32,000 U.S. service members wounded in action in Iraq and about 3500 in Afghanistan, will America maintain its strong and continued medical care for its wounded warriors? This is the subject of a commentary by Ralph Masi that appeared on Globalsecurity.org.
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Leadership Dynamics Behind Iranian Policy Formulation — Jan. 5, 2010
U.S. policymakers should take a nuanced view of Iran's complex system of government and politics when crafting foreign policy decisions about the Islamic Republic, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
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How a Decade of Terror Changed America — Dec. 31, 2009
Two foiled airliner bombings bracket a decade that changed the world’s understanding of terrorism as a new form of global warfare and has had profound ramifications we are still coming to grips with in the U.S. as discussed by Brian Michael Jenkins that appeared on Sphere.com .
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