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Published commentary by RAND staff.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff.
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Iran's Security Policy in the Post-Revolutionary Era
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Could special operations forces (SOF) lessons learned in Vietnam help it today's international conflicts?
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This paper examines demographic trends in Egypt in terms of how present and future challenges affect the nation and how addressing them will benefit it.
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Afghanistan: The Consolidation of a Rogue State
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Testimony presented before the House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on Europe on June 13, 2001.
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An analysis of attempts to coerce Iraq since Desert Storm reveals that military strikes and other forms of pressure that threatened Saddam Husayn's relationship with his power base proved effective at forcing concessions from the Iraqi regime.
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The authors explore the significance of changes on the Turkish domestic scene, as well as the contours of Ankara's increasingly active external policies.
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This paper examines demographic trends in Egypt in terms of how present and future challenges affect the nation and how addressing them will benefit it.
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A number of Middle Eastern states — e.g., Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia — seem to be "coup-proof." That is, their regimes have created structures that minimize the possibility that a small group can seize power.
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Examines the threat of political violence in the Persian Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates and the best means of reducing that threat.
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NATO's New Strategic Concept and Peripheral Contingencies: The Middle East
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Turkey's strategic options
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The information revolution and political opposition in the Middle East
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Statement for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.
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This book examines current political trends and potential sources of conflict in three critical regions — Asia, the greater Middle East, and Europe and the former Soviet Union — through the year 2025.
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As the ongoing Asian crises underscore, policymaking and policies are becoming less the exclusive purview of governments and more the outcome of a complex process in which diverse groups participate actively, with varying degrees of influence.
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Additional studies need to be conducted in a sample of the Saudi population to further assess the psychometric properties of the Arabic version.
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Political dynamics unleashed by the end of the Cold War have raised questions about Turkey's position in the Western alliance and its long-term domestic and foreign policy evolution. Keeping Turkey tied tightly to the West remains a strong American p...
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