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  • Health workers dressed in hazmat gear and a patient
    Public Health Preparedness

    commentary

    Heed Film Lessons on Outbreak

    To assure the health security of the United States, we must be capable of stopping anything a terrorist or Mother Nature might throw at us. Wholesale cuts to public health are taking us farther from that goal, write Art Kellermann and Melinda Moore.

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    Dec 29, 2011

    Atlanta Journal Constitution

    Arthur L. Kellermann, Melinda Moore

  • Global Security

    commentary

    North Korea: Uncertain and Dangerous Times Ahead

    With his father's support over the last year, Kim Jong-Un has tried to rapidly reshape the North Korean leadership structure, giving him many new subordinates who are untried and lacking experience. Some will clearly make mistakes, writes Bruce Bennett.

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    Dec 21, 2011

    The RAND Blog

    Bruce W. Bennett @bwbennett

  • Nation Building

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    The Year of the Arab Spring

    The Arab Spring demonstrated that leaderless revolutions are difficult to repress or co-opt. Unfortunately, it is also true that leaderless revolts find it difficult to make transition to authority, writes Charles Ries.

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    Dec 20, 2011

    GlobalSecurity.org and The RAND Blog

    Charles P. Ries @charles_ries

  • Veterans Health Care

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    Bridging the Gaps in Treating Veterans with Post-Deployment Mental Health Problems

    Delivery of evidence-based care to all veterans with PTSD or depression would pay for itself—or even save money—within two years by improving productivity and reducing medical and mortality costs, writes Terri Tanielian.

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    Dec 5, 2011

    AcademyHealth

    Terri Tanielian

  • Nuclear Deterrence

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    Dissuading Iran from the Bomb and Avoiding War

    By refusing to face more squarely the probability that Iran will eventually acquire a nuclear weapons capability, the American and Israeli governments actually reduce their ability to dissuade Iran from crossing that threshold, writes James Dobbins.

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    Dec 2, 2011

    Public Service Europe

    James Dobbins @Jim_Dobbins

  • Economic Development

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    Research Funding and Economic Growth

    Publicly funded R&D investment is a coherent policy to support long term economic growth. Our only note of caution is about how far and how fast that growth can be delivered because the evidence we have is out of date and skewed towards the experience of just one country, write Jonathan Grant and Jon Sussex.

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    Nov 29, 2011

    Research Fortnight

    Jonathan Grant, Jon Sussex

  • Health Care Price Competition

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    Provider Consolidation Key Factor in Affordable Coverage

    Hospitals operating with little competition are able to charge health plans much higher prices, which are passed on to consumers in the form of higher insurance premiums, writes Glenn Melnick.

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    Nov 28, 2011

    California Healthline

    Glenn Melnick

  • Military Budgets and Defense Spending

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    History Shows Danger of Arbitrary Defense Cuts

    As America embarks on a tough strategic journey in the aftermath of Iraq, and contends with an ailing economy, it is wise to be mindful of the difference between hope and fact, writes Paula G. Thornhill.

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    Nov 23, 2011

    CNN

    Paula G. Thornhill

  • Law Enforcement

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    Save Money Hire Police

    The high cost of crime to society suggests that adding police officers may give large cities a sizable return on their investments, write Greg Ridgeway and Paul Heaton.

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    Nov 22, 2011

    Los Angeles Times

    Greg Ridgeway, Paul Heaton

  • Nuclear Disarmament

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    An Attack Would Only Strengthen Iran's Influence

    Reaction to a strike against Iran among neighboring populations would be almost uniformly hostile. The sympathy thereby aroused for Iran would make containment of Iranian influence much more difficult for Israel, for the U.S., and for the Arab regimes currently allied with Washington, writes James Dobbins.

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    Nov 16, 2011

    U.S. News & World Report, Debate Club

    James Dobbins @Jim_Dobbins

  • Cost-Effectiveness in Health Care

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    Can the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Become Relevant to Controlling Medical Costs and Improving Value?

    A scientific and political case could be made to amend health care legislation to require that cost be included in the studies that the PCORI funds, writes Robert H. Brook.

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    Nov 9, 2011

    The Journal of the American Medical Association

    Robert H. Brook

  • Economic Policy

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    Where Keynes Went Wrong

    Failure to consider the potentially adverse effect of government spending on the preexisting level of aggregate demand was and remains a disabling flaw in Keynesian theory—then and now, writes Charles Wolf, Jr.

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    Nov 7, 2011

    CBSNews.com on October 31, 2011 and in The Weekly Standard

    Charles Wolf, Jr.

  • Counterterrorism

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    Why the Haqqani Network Is the Wrong Target

    In focusing on the Haqqani network—which enjoys little popular support in Afghanistan—the United States is neglecting the more important (and difficult) task of dealing with the Taliban sanctuary in Pakistan's Baluchistan Province, writes Seth G. Jones.

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    Nov 6, 2011

    Foreign Affairs

    Seth G. Jones

  • Demographics

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    Seven Billion? No Need to Panic

    We cannot wish away serious ecological issues, such as the steady increase in greenhouse gases or the steady decrease in critical resources (e.g., phosphates). But population growth per se need not portend ecological catastrophe, writes Martin Libicki.

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    Nov 4, 2011

    CNN

    Martin C. Libicki

  • Nation Building

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    An Open Door in Libya

    The days and weeks after a victory like this are a golden hour that set in motion either a virtuous cycle of increasing security and economic growth, or a downward spiral into insecurity, factionalism and economic chaos, write Christopher S. Chivvis and Frederic Wehrey.

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    Oct 20, 2011

    CNN

    Christopher S. Chivvis, Frederic Wehrey

  • Health Equity

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    Ensuring the ACA Helps Reduce Disparities Not Exacerbate Them

    Evidence from past efforts in the U.S. and abroad suggests that the full potential of health reform will not be realized without specific efforts to reduce disparities, write Robin M. Weinick, Malcom V. Williams, and Romana Hasnain-Wynia.

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    Oct 14, 2011

    Advancing Health Equity

    Robin M. Weinick, Malcolm V. Williams, et al.

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