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Ukraine

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Ukraine Needs Help Surviving Airstrikes, Not Just Killing Tanks
A Russian large-scale multidomain operation would be devastating for the Ukrainian military and people, and Ukraine should work to prevent that. But steps can also be taken to reduce the effects of the air and missile strikes that would likely lead off such an operation.
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Jan 19, 2022
Dara Massicot @MassDara
Ukraine

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Biden's Rhetoric on Ukraine Has Been Quite Moderate. Here's What That Means
President Biden's public statements since December have focused on how further Russian invasion of Ukraine would result in material consequences. His rhetorical restraint may have important implications for the current conflict.
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Jan 18, 2022
Abigail S. Post
Global Climate Change

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Geoengineering, the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Biosimilar Drugs: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on technologies that manipulate the climate, what NATO could do to address the Ukraine-Russia crisis, and cost savings from biosimilar drugs.
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Jan 14, 2022
International Diplomacy

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Could the U.S. Play Offense in China's Back Yard?
Relations with Cambodia and Laos have fallen victim to the U.S. administration's foreign policy priority of shared values over shared interests. This approach has failed to make headway in Cambodia and Laos, isolates the United States in a region where few countries are true democracies, and unnecessarily cedes ground to Beijing.
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Jan 13, 2022
Derek Grossman @DerekJGrossman
Russia

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Speaking Aloud What NATO Has Left Unsaid Could Help Ease Ukraine-Russia Impasse
A statement that NATO has no intention to offer Ukraine membership at present should only be made in return for a tangible drawdown of Russian forces on the border. It concedes nothing to declare that NATO is not planning to do something it has no intention of doing anyway.
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Jan 13, 2022
Samuel Charap @scharap
Violent Extremism

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Extremism and Substance Use Disorder, Criminal Background Checks, Vaccine Diplomacy: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the parallels between extremism and substance use disorder, a better way to measure recidivism risk, global vaccine diplomacy, and more.
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Jan 7, 2022
Fighter Aircraft

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Is Russia's Su-75 'Checkmate' Aircraft a Case of Vapor Marketing?
During a Moscow air show last summer, Russia rolled out a mockup of the Su-75, a multipurpose fighter-bomber designed to compete in the global marketplace. But given the Russian aerospace sector's difficulties in developing, let alone delivering, advanced combat aircraft, prospective buyers should consider a range of options to meet defense needs.
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Jan 6, 2022
John V. Parachini @JohnParachini, Peter A. Wilson
Security Cooperation

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Taiwan and Six Potential New Year's Resolutions for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance
How might the United States and Japan prepare for possible conflict with China over Taiwan, and ensure forces are postured to operate together? The alliance could benefit from greater clarity, and practical conversations could make a better and stronger alliance in the new year.
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Jan 5, 2022
Jeffrey W. Hornung
Visual Arts

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What Sounds Do a Million Random Digits Make?
The title of RAND's 1955 classic, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, doesn't exactly dance off the page. But Paul Dunham, a sound artist in New Zealand, thought the work could make its own kind of music.
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Jan 5, 2022
Citizen Science

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Citizen Science Helps Communities Participate in, Understand, and Trust Science
Good citizen science brings a community together and helps it prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. A RAND guide takes non-expert investigators from the early stages of defining their questions and setting their goals, through building their teams, to planning for action.
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Jan 4, 2022
Democracy

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South Korea's Presidential Election: Beyond Mudslinging, What Gives?
The 2022 South Korean presidential campaign has focused largely on personal attacks and allegations of corruption with little attention being paid to pressing issues facing the nation. The absence of meaningful policy debate and clarity on policy deliverables will continue to leave the South Korean electorate largely uninformed about what may be the most important decision they will make in 2022.
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Jan 3, 2022
Soo Kim @mllesookim
Racial Equity

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Resolutions and Optimism from the Santa Monica Community Going into the New Year
Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy director Rhianna Rogers reflects on her 2022 resolution: Draw together folks from different cultural perspectives to speak with and learn from one another, and work together to find ways to make the world better for all.
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Jan 3, 2022
Rhianna C. Rogers
Environmental Regulation

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Manipulating the Climate: What Are the Geopolitical Risks?
Geoengineering technologies that could block the sun's rays or siphon huge amounts of carbon from the air are not that far out of reach. Yet the international community has not established the kinds of guardrails you might expect for potentially world-changing technologies.
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Dec 29, 2021
Organizational Leadership

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At the Intersection of Leadership, Strategy, and Foresight
Police leaders spend considerable time developing strategic plans, but events and circumstances can evolve in unanticipated ways. To create survivable plans, leaders should assess capabilities and the environment within which they work. To do so, they should incorporate foresight to develop the adaptability necessary to thrive.
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Dec 28, 2021
Bob Harrison
Vaccination

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America Can Still Deliver on Global Vaccine Diplomacy
It is hard to see how science alone can end the pandemic without the rallying power of global diplomacy. The United States has played a leadership role in previous outbreaks, such as Ebola. It could play a similar role now to help consign the current pandemic to epidemic status.
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Dec 28, 2021
Krishna B. Kumar @kbkumar_

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Ukraine Needs Help Surviving Airstrikes, Not Just Killing Tanks

Biden's Rhetoric on Ukraine Has Been Quite Moderate. Here's What That Means

Geoengineering, the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Biosimilar Drugs: RAND Weekly Recap

Could the U.S. Play Offense in China's Back Yard?

Speaking Aloud What NATO Has Left Unsaid Could Help Ease Ukraine-Russia Impasse

Extremism and Substance Use Disorder, Criminal Background Checks, Vaccine Diplomacy: RAND Weekly Recap

Is Russia's Su-75 'Checkmate' Aircraft a Case of Vapor Marketing?

Taiwan and Six Potential New Year's Resolutions for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance

What Sounds Do a Million Random Digits Make?

Citizen Science Helps Communities Participate in, Understand, and Trust Science

South Korea's Presidential Election: Beyond Mudslinging, What Gives?

Resolutions and Optimism from the Santa Monica Community Going into the New Year

Manipulating the Climate: What Are the Geopolitical Risks?

At the Intersection of Leadership, Strategy, and Foresight

America Can Still Deliver on Global Vaccine Diplomacy

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