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Dispute Resolution
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Nuclear Strategists Know How Dangerous the Debt Fight Is
Edward Geist @sovietologist
Nov 29, 2021
The Atlantic
Nuclear-war strategists' work offers a warning for Congress: The more times a game is played, the more treacherous it becomes, because when both sides believe catastrophe will always be averted in the end, each behaves more rashly. In the debt-ceiling dispute, the United States could end up defaulting precisely because each side keeps waiting for the other to blink.
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International Diplomacy
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U.S. 'Entanglement,' Global Health Cooperation, Community Stress: RAND Weekly Recap
Nov 26, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on competing claims about U.S. partnerships and allies, responding to Russia's tactics in Ukraine, helping communities recover from stress, and more.
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Military Veterans
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Why Are U.S. Veterans at Heightened Risk of Food Insecurity?
Tamara Dubowitz @TamaraDubowitz, Andrea Richardson @ASRichardson3
Nov 24, 2021
The RAND Blog
U.S. veterans are at great risk of food insecurity, but there is limited understanding of exactly how many veterans lack resources to attain adequate and nutritious food and why. If resources are to be directed more effectively, the United States needs better clarity into the magnitude of the problem.
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Banking and Financial Services
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More Than Green: Leveraging Green Bonds to Invest in Greater Climate Resilience
Karishma V. Patel, Michelle E. Miro
Nov 24, 2021
The RAND Blog
The significance of green bonds may depend not only on having a lot of them but also on carefully developing, investing, and tracking projects against the larger goal of climate resilience.
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Refugees
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Afghan Refugees Are Being Recruited to Join an Iranian Paramilitary
Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller, Andrew Radin @andrewmradin
Nov 23, 2021
The Hill
As Western policymakers consider how to deal with Afghan evacuees, including former members of the Afghan security forces, they might consider how to prevent adversaries such as Iran from recruiting Afghan refugees for dangerous and destabilizing operations. Greater attention to these risks may become increasingly important as refugee flows from Afghanistan continue.
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Banking and Financial Services
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The Growing Green Bond Market Could Plateau. How Can It Grow Further?
David Catt, Nihar Chhatiawala, Mark Stalczynski
Nov 23, 2021
The RAND Blog
If green bonds are a viable tool to reduce emissions and adapt infrastructure to the effects of climate change, how can governments encourage the issuance, sales, and growth in the share of green bonds in the total bond market?
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Infrastructure Finance
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Green Bonds Can Leave Issuers in the Red
Brian Wong, Ismael Arciniegas Rueda
Nov 22, 2021
The RAND Blog
To achieve the Biden administration's blueprint for solar energy and focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation, green bonds may be worth considering. But, like any other financing instrument, they may be best considered through a cost-benefit lens.
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Global Health
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Global Health Data Sharing: The Case of China and the Two Coronavirus Pandemics
Jennifer Bouey @BoueyHuang
Nov 22, 2021
The RAND Blog
Tensions over the coronavirus seem to be prompting China to isolate itself in terms of data sharing. But the first coronavirus pandemic in 2003 actually helped open China to health collaborations with other countries. World leaders may be doing their citizens a disservice when they allow toxic geopolitics to undercut trust and international collaborations that took decades to build.
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Security Cooperation
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U.S. Support for European Strategic Autonomy Could Boost Transatlantic Solidarity and Security
Stephen J. Flanagan, Lucia Retter
Nov 19, 2021
Encompass
Leaders of EU member states and institutions have recently renewed calls for Europe to assume a greater role and increased autonomy in transatlantic and global security and defense. How can Europe and the United States work together to reduce misperceptions about strategic autonomy and chart an outcome that could enhance transatlantic solidarity and security?
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Machine Learning
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Reining in COVID-19 Disinformation from China, Russia, and Elsewhere
Christian Johnson, William Marcellino
Nov 19, 2021
The RAND Blog
During the pandemic, misinformation and conspiracy theories have spread more virulently than ever before. The vast scale of the problem means scalable solutions like machine learning could be needed to rein in the bots, trolls, and conspiracy theories being spread by bad-faith actors.
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Ukraine
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How Could the United States React to Russia's Latest Posturing on Ukraine?
Samuel Charap @scharap
Nov 19, 2021
Politico
Russia's military buildup along its border with Ukraine has been accompanied by dramatically tougher rhetoric in recent months. Russian President Vladimir Putin may believe Ukraine is at an inflection point and that it's time to up the ante. The risk of a major war seems real enough to justify a new U.S. approach.
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Information Operations
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News Manipulation, the Risk of Civil War, Russia and Ukraine: RAND Weekly Recap
Nov 19, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on tracking news manipulation during the pandemic, the threat of another civil war, preventing health insurance loss, and more.
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Africa
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What Does Africa Need Most Now: Russian Arms Sales or Good Vaccines?
John V. Parachini @JohnParachini, Ryan Bauer
Nov 17, 2021
RealClearWorld
Why is Russia's main export to Africa advanced conventional weapons at a time when other needs are so great? African leaders might think twice about aggressive Russian arms pitches and engagement of mercenaries, and prioritize measures to stem the COVID-19 pandemic and encourage economic growth.
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Health Care Organization and Administration
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Does Vertical Integration Improve or Imperil U.S. Health Care?
M. Susan Ridgely
Nov 16, 2021
HealthCare Business News
Health care consolidation is endemic across the United States. With consolidation has come public attention and regulatory scrutiny. Unfortunately, evidence is accumulating that health care consolidation is harming competition in the U.S. health care market, while neither reducing costs nor improving care.
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Supply Chain Management
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Supply Chain Disruptions: The Risks and Consequences
Bradley Martin
Nov 15, 2021
The RAND Blog
With interdependence comes risk, and in the case of supply chains, these risks often are not fully appreciated. A systematic effort, cutting across agencies and public and private sectors, could be one way to ensure that vulnerabilities are understood and mitigated.
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The very fact that Russia felt the need to resort to overt, large-scale conventional force in Ukraine—despite years of operating there in the gray zone—demonstrates that at least in Russian president Vladimir Putin's mind, these ambiguous uses of force in Ukraine failed to achieve their desired ends.

Raphael S. Cohen

Director, Strategy and Doctrine Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE

Source: The National Interest

Centering Putin's interests and catering to his emotional state violates a fundamental bargaining precept: Never negotiate against yourself. To be clear, it's good to understand your opponent's perspective. But first, negotiate for your interests, not for theirs. Second, learn what they really want before offering concessions. Third, make sure they can actually deliver.

Raymond Kuo

Political Scientist

Source: RealClearDefense

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Nuclear Strategists Know How Dangerous the Debt Fight Is

U.S. 'Entanglement,' Global Health Cooperation, Community Stress: RAND Weekly Recap

Why Are U.S. Veterans at Heightened Risk of Food Insecurity?

More Than Green: Leveraging Green Bonds to Invest in Greater Climate Resilience

Afghan Refugees Are Being Recruited to Join an Iranian Paramilitary

The Growing Green Bond Market Could Plateau. How Can It Grow Further?

Green Bonds Can Leave Issuers in the Red

Global Health Data Sharing: The Case of China and the Two Coronavirus Pandemics

U.S. Support for European Strategic Autonomy Could Boost Transatlantic Solidarity and Security

Reining in COVID-19 Disinformation from China, Russia, and Elsewhere

How Could the United States React to Russia's Latest Posturing on Ukraine?

News Manipulation, the Risk of Civil War, Russia and Ukraine: RAND Weekly Recap

What Does Africa Need Most Now: Russian Arms Sales or Good Vaccines?

Does Vertical Integration Improve or Imperil U.S. Health Care?

Supply Chain Disruptions: The Risks and Consequences

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