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International Diplomacy
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The Warsaw Summit Is No Madrid
Dalia Dassa Kaye
Feb 13, 2019
New Republic
The peace process begun in Madrid nearly 30 years ago showed promise, but ultimately stalled, and will need rethinking to adapt to today's Middle East. The world could use a worthy successor. The Warsaw summit probably isn't it.
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Globalization
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The Need to Think More Clearly About 'Great-Power Competition'
Ali Wyne
Feb 11, 2019
The National Interest
Today's world order is increasingly defined by competition between the United States and a host of major powers, especially China and Russia. Who is America's principal competitor and over what is it competing? What is America’s ultimate objective? And how will it prepare its economy and its society for infinite competition of an indefinite nature?
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What the Shutdown Revealed About the Fragility of American Life
Krishna B. Kumar @kbkumar_
Feb 11, 2019
RealClearPolicy
The government shutdown highlighted the lack of resilience many suffer from when they encounter unexpected economic events. The median American family has been losing ground for decades. Policy responses to address this situation will be complex and difficult, but are much needed.
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Hezbollah Is in Venezuela to Stay
Colin P. Clarke
Feb 11, 2019
Foreign Policy
Whatever the benefits of replacing the current Venezuelan regime with Washington's preferred alternative, Juan Guaidó, there's reason to doubt that it would change the country's problematic relationship with Hezbollah. Hezbollah is well-entrenched in Venezuela, where it has established a vast infrastructure for its criminal activities.
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Border and Port Security
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The Wall Is Not the Only Answer
Blas Nunez-Neto
Feb 8, 2019
The Hill
The president and Congress have just days to negotiate an agreement over border security, or the government may shut down once again. Until a bipartisan effort is made to reform U.S. immigration laws, policy options to address the incentives that cause people to risk their lives to come to the border to claim asylum will continue to be limited.
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Iran
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The Islamic Republic's Foreign Policy at Forty
Ariane M. Tabatabai
Feb 8, 2019
Atlantic Council
Forty years have passed since the Islamic Revolution. While Iran hasn't departed from its revolutionary roots, its foreign policy today is largely shaped by threat perceptions and interests, not ideology.
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Forecasting Methodology
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How Horizon Scanning Can Give the Military a Technological Edge
Sarah Grand-Clement
Feb 8, 2019
UK MOD Guide to Defence and Security
Horizon scanning could promote innovative practices and innovation uptake, through the adoption of new ideas, equipment, and methods, with benefits that could positively affect the UK economy as a whole. But a wider mechanism for processing and assessing the selected developments would be needed.
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Workforce Development
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State of the Union, OxyContin, Appalachia: RAND Weekly Recap
Feb 8, 2019
This weekly recap focuses on insights from RAND after the State of the Union, public-health impacts of reformulating OxyContin, STEM jobs in Appalachia, and more.
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Security Cooperation
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How the U.S. Is Thinking About the Quad
Derek Grossman @DerekJGrossman
Feb 7, 2019
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
The United States has been consistent in discussing the security objectives it seeks to promote through the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. But U.S. interactions with other Quad partners have likely convinced Washington to repackage public presentation of the dialogue proceedings and manage its expectations of what the Quad can realistically achieve.
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Nuclear Disarmament
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Hard to Predict Outcome of Second Trump-Kim Summit
Bruce W. Bennett @bwbennett
Feb 6, 2019
The National Interest
It's difficult to predict the outcome of the second summit between Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump. At the first, Kim offered to fully denuclearize during President Trump's first term. But he continued building nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. If Kim keeps stalling, serious tensions could follow.
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Transportation Safety
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How to Make Roads Safer for Autonomous Vehicles
Laura Fraade-Blanar
Feb 6, 2019
Axios
Roadways and vehicle design could be modified to better accommodate both human error and the shortcomings of autonomous vehicle systems.
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United States
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State of the Union 2019: Insights from RAND
Feb 6, 2019
To shed light on a wide range of topics that figured in President Trump's second State of the Union address, we've rounded up insights from some of RAND's objective and nonpartisan research, analysis, and expertise.
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Social and Emotional Learning
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Choosing the Right Social and Emotional Learning Programs and Practices
Stephani L. Wrabel, Laura S. Hamilton
Feb 5, 2019
The Wallace Foundation
Educators have become increasingly interested in supporting students to cultivate the inter- and intra-personal skills that are developed through the process of social and emotional learning. A new guide developed at RAND is meant to help educators adopt evidenced-based interventions that fit the needs of their students and communities.
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Cybersecurity
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Developing an Objective, Repeatable Scoring System for a Vulnerability Equities Process
Sasha Romanosky
Feb 5, 2019
Lawfare
If governments seek to create an objective framework for decision making about whether or when to disclose software vulnerabilities, what might that look like? What questions should be included, how should they influence the outcome and how can one interpret the results?
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Military Technology
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America's National Defense Strategy and the Paradox of Technology
Chad C. Serena, Colin P. Clarke
Feb 4, 2019
The National Interest
The need for the military to make greater investments in technology is difficult if not impossible to separate from the risks posed by an increasing military reliance on this technology. Striking a balance between the two won't be easy.
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The RAND Blog

The Warsaw Summit Is No Madrid

The Need to Think More Clearly About 'Great-Power Competition'

What the Shutdown Revealed About the Fragility of American Life

Hezbollah Is in Venezuela to Stay

The Wall Is Not the Only Answer

The Islamic Republic's Foreign Policy at Forty

How Horizon Scanning Can Give the Military a Technological Edge

State of the Union, OxyContin, Appalachia: RAND Weekly Recap

How the U.S. Is Thinking About the Quad

Hard to Predict Outcome of Second Trump-Kim Summit

How to Make Roads Safer for Autonomous Vehicles

State of the Union 2019: Insights from RAND

Choosing the Right Social and Emotional Learning Programs and Practices

Developing an Objective, Repeatable Scoring System for a Vulnerability Equities Process

America's National Defense Strategy and the Paradox of Technology

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