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How Have Sanctions Impacted Russian Arms Sales?
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Considering Supply Chain Resiliency
Dec 9, 2021
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How Does the China-Russia Relationship Affect U.S. Interests?
Nov 30, 2021
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How Do Partisan Differences Affect ACA Marketplace Participation and Subsidy Use?
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Anticipating Adversary Military Interventions
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How Does North Korea Evade Sanctions?
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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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Could the U.S. Play Offense in China's Back Yard?
Jan 13, 2022
Derek Grossman @DerekJGrossman

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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Speaking Aloud What NATO Has Left Unsaid Could Help Ease Ukraine-Russia Impasse
Jan 13, 2022
Samuel Charap @scharap

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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Workers' Compensation During COVID-19
Jan 11, 2022
Michael Dworsky, Bethany Saunders-Medina

As the pandemic continues, states vary on whether or how to allow workers to seek compensation for a COVID-19 diagnosis. It's too early to know the full costs, impacts, and efficacy of these efforts, but now is a good time for policymakers to consider all the arguments for and against coverage.

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RAND Congressional Resources offers an easy way for policymakers to access research and analysis that is relevant to current Congressional agendas.

LATEST

Better Aligning Housing Options with Veteran Preferences Could Help Alleviate Homelessness

Legislative Issue Areas

New from Congressional Relations

How Have Sanctions Impacted Russian Arms Sales?

Considering Supply Chain Resiliency

How Does the China-Russia Relationship Affect U.S. Interests?

How Do Partisan Differences Affect ACA Marketplace Participation and Subsidy Use?

Anticipating Adversary Military Interventions

How Does North Korea Evade Sanctions?

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

Workers' Compensation During COVID-19

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