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Global Climate Change
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Geoengineering, the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Biosimilar Drugs: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 14, 2022
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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International Diplomacy
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Could the U.S. Play Offense in China's Back Yard?
Derek Grossman @DerekJGrossman
Jan 13, 2022
Foreign Policy
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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Russia
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Speaking Aloud What NATO Has Left Unsaid Could Help Ease Ukraine-Russia Impasse
Samuel Charap @scharap
Jan 13, 2022
Financial Times
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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Violent Extremism
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Extremism and Substance Use Disorder, Criminal Background Checks, Vaccine Diplomacy: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 7, 2022
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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Fighter Aircraft
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Is Russia's Su-75 'Checkmate' Aircraft a Case of Vapor Marketing?
John V. Parachini @JohnParachini, Peter A. Wilson
Jan 6, 2022
Defense One
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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Security Cooperation
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Taiwan and Six Potential New Year's Resolutions for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance
Jeffrey W. Hornung
Jan 5, 2022
War on the Rocks
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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Visual Arts
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What Sounds Do a Million Random Digits Make?
Jan 5, 2022
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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Citizen Science
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Citizen Science Helps Communities Participate in, Understand, and Trust Science
Jan 4, 2022
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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Democracy
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South Korea's Presidential Election: Beyond Mudslinging, What Gives?
Soo Kim @mllesookim
Jan 3, 2022
Nikkei Asia
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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Racial Equity
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Resolutions and Optimism from the Santa Monica Community Going into the New Year
Rhianna C. Rogers
Jan 3, 2022
Santa Monica Daily Press
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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Environmental Regulation
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Manipulating the Climate: What Are the Geopolitical Risks?
Dec 29, 2021
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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Organizational Leadership
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At the Intersection of Leadership, Strategy, and Foresight
Bob Harrison
Dec 28, 2021
Police1
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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Vaccination
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America Can Still Deliver on Global Vaccine Diplomacy
Krishna B. Kumar @kbkumar_
Dec 28, 2021
The National Interest
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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Russia
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Russia May Underestimate Ukraine and NATO
William Courtney @courtneywmh, Peter A. Wilson
Dec 27, 2021
Moscow Times
Moscow has unveiled outlandish security demands that sound aggressive and suggest that it may underestimate both NATO and Ukraine. Kremlin leaders might consider instead seeking a stable European security architecture that protects Russia's interests while also allowing for a vibrant and sovereign Ukraine.
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Taiwan
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Taiwan Would Be Better Off Alone
Derek Grossman @DerekJGrossman
Dec 23, 2021
Nikkei Asia
Relinquishing diplomatic partners could free Taiwan from an unwinnable competition with China and refocus attention on what really matters: reducing China's coercive power by strengthening relationships with powers that can truly help.
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International Diplomacy
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Helping People Affected by Conflict: Q&A with Jacqueline Burns
Dec 22, 2021
From the Air Force to Africa to RAND, Jacqueline Burns resolved to help people whose lives have been torn apart by conflict or disaster. As a senior policy analyst she wants to be a part of finding better solutions to the complex questions of peace and security.
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Workers' Compensation During COVID-19

How Do Education Benefits Support Veterans’ Transitions to Civilian Life?

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

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

Centering Participatory Action Research in Racial Equity and Global Justice

The Policy Currents Podcast

Measuring Wellbeing to Help Communities Thrive

Assessing and Articulating the Wider Benefits of Research

Managing Escalation in Crisis and War

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

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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

Russia May Underestimate Ukraine and NATO

Taiwan Would Be Better Off Alone

Helping People Affected by Conflict: Q&A with Jacqueline Burns

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