2012-05-24T14:56:35Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/france.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1226.html Apr 4, 2012 Apr 4, 2012

The report presents the overall findings of work carried out within the DISMEVAL project. It reviews approaches to chronic care in Europe and reports on methods and metrics for the evaluation of disease management interventions in six countries.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR972.html Oct 5, 2011 Oct 5, 2011

Several key U.S. allies engage in security cooperation, albeit on a smaller scale than the United States. To see what the U.S. Air Force can learn from these efforts, the authors examined how and why three allies — Australia, France, and the United Kingdom — provide security cooperation and highlight three key areas that could benefit from further collaboration: staff talks, exercises, and training followed by exercises.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2011/04/04/CNN.html Apr 4, 2011 Apr 4, 2011

Pushing the European allies, especially Britain and France, to take more responsibility in managing crises would reduce the costs and burdens on the United States while providing an incentive for the Europeans to take defense more seriously, writes F. Stephen Larrabee.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP323.html Dec 7, 2010 Dec 7, 2010

Home health care technology may provide one important solution to global concerns about how to sustain health care systems threatened by rising costs and manpower shortages, but such a change faces multiple obstacles to adoption.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2010/12/07.html Dec 7, 2010 Dec 7, 2010

Home health care technology may provide one important solution to global concerns about how to sustain health care systems threatened by rising costs and manpower shortages, but such a change faces multiple obstacles to adoption.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR855z1.html Nov 12, 2010 Nov 12, 2010

Study of NATO Strategic Communications and relevance for France. Looks at: definition, objectives, scope, terminology, command structure, resources. Concludes concept is relevant to France in crisis situations and offers ways to implement it.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR855z2.html Nov 12, 2010 Nov 12, 2010

Study of NATO Strategic Communications and relevance for France. Looks at: definition, objectives, scope, terminology, command structure, resources. Concludes concept is relevant to France in crisis situations and offers ways to implement it.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR792.html Mar 5, 2010 Mar 5, 2010

<p>This report reviews approaches to funding intensive care in systems that use activity-based payment based on diagnosis-related groups to reimburse hospital care (Victoria/Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, US-Medicare).</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG836.html Jan 17, 2010 Jan 17, 2010

<p>The U.S. military training system is the envy of many countries around the world, but the militaries of China, France, the UK, India, and Israel can help the U.S. identify different approaches to readiness, adaptability, and operational issues.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB590.html Dec 23, 2009 Dec 23, 2009

<p>This documented briefing provides an overview of the health and medical research system in France. The report is supported by the Department of Health (England).</p>

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/03/24/GS.html Mar 23, 2009 Mar 23, 2009

<p>At the upcoming NATO summit, French President Sarkozy is expected to formally announce France's return to NATO's integrated military command, which, if confirmed, will remove an important irritant in U.S.-French relations and open up new possibilities for strengthening U.S.-European cooperation more broadly, writes Stephen Larrabee.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR644.html Nov 16, 2008 Nov 16, 2008

<p>A policy analysis of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (e.g. IVF, ICSI) regulation, funding, and health consequences in France, Italy and the UK.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR644z1.html Nov 15, 2008 Nov 15, 2008

<p>A policy analysis of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (e.g. IVF, ICSI) regulation, funding, and health consequences in France, Italy and the UK.</p>

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2007/05/07/IHT.html May 7, 2007 May 7, 2007

Pro-American Yes, French Poodle No, in International Herald Tribune on May 7, 2007.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060723.html Jul 19, 2006 Jul 19, 2006

This report, which was commissioned by the National Audit Office (NAO), presents the results of a benchmarking exercise investigating the issue of fraud and error in the social security systems of eight European and non-European countries.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG253.html Mar 3, 2005 Mar 3, 2005

<p>Analyzes the contrasting military responses of various militaries to the internal combustion engine between World War I and World War II. Incorporating new technology requires a change in military process (i.e., reengineering); the author sets forth the conditions necessary for successful military reengineering.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP132.html Dec 20, 2004 Dec 20, 2004

<p>The United States and France differ greatly in their responses to mass immigration. The U.S. adapts is own culture and that of the immigrants, most recently with Latinos. France wants the immigrants to do it all. As a result, the Muslim North Africans of France's first wave of mass immigration are not assimilating well. The author compares the two current cases and briefly discusses the policy implications: The U.S. seems on its best course, but France needs policy changes to at least keep the peace.</p>

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2004/12/10/UPI.html Dec 10, 2004 Dec 10, 2004

Published commentary by RAND staff.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2004/01/05/CSM.html Jan 5, 2004 Jan 5, 2004

French President Jacques Chirac has been sharply criticized by Muslim clerics around the world for his recent call for a ban on the Islamic head scarf, or hijab, in French public schools. Mr. Chirac's move has been attacked as a curtailment of personal freedom and an assault on Islam.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2003/02/23/ND.html Feb 23, 2003 Feb 23, 2003

Whether or not there is war in Iraq, NATO, the European Union and transatlantic relations already have been deeply affected, posing the gravest challenge to all three since at least the end of the Cold War, writes Robert Hunter in an commentary.