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Reconstructing Ukraine: Creating a Freer, More Prosperous, and Secure Future 2023
Advancing Global Citizenship in America 2022
Engage, Isolate, or Oppose: American Policy Toward the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan 2022
A Guide to Extreme Competition with China 2021
DDR in Afghanistan: Disarming, Demobilizing, and Reintegrating Afghan Combatants in Accordance with a Peace Agreement 2020
The Lost Generation in American Foreign Policy: How American Influence Has Declined, and What Can Be Done About It 2020
Seizing the Golden Hour: Tasks, Organization, and Capabilities Required for the Earliest Phase of Stability Operations 2020
Stabilizing Eastern Syria After ISIS 2020
Weighing U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Iraq: Strategic Risks and Recommendations 2020
Africa's Role in Nation-Building: An Examination of African-Led Peace Operations 2019
America's Strategy-Resource Mismatch: Addressing the Gaps Between U.S. National Strategy and Military Capacity 2019
A Consensus Proposal for a Revised Regional Order in Post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia 2019
Consequences of a Precipitous U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan 2019
Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground 2019
How African Institutions Help Keep the Peace 2019
Overextending and Unbalancing Russia: Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options 2019
Russia Is a Rogue, Not a Peer; China Is a Peer, Not a Rogue: Different Challenges, Different Responses 2019
After the Summit: Prospects for the Korean Peninsula 2018
Getting Out from "In-Between": Perspectives on the Regional Order in Post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia 2018
Saving Transatlantic Cooperation and the Iran Nuclear Deal: A View from Europe and the United States 2018
Conflict with China Revisited: Prospects, Consequences, and Strategies for Deterrence 2017
Foreign Service: Five Decades on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy 2017
Knowing the Enemy: Understanding the Islamic State and Principles for Defeating It 2017
A Peace Plan for Syria III: Agreed Zones of Control, Decentralization, and International Administration 2017
A Peace Plan for Syria IV: A Bottom-Up Approach, Linking Reconstruction Assistance to Local Government Formation 2017
Rolling Back the Islamic State 2017
A Peace Plan for Syria II: Options for Future Governance 2016
Will the Iran Deal Survive? Iran, Regional Crises, and U.S. Policy 2016
Choices for America in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink 2015
A Peace Plan for Syria 2015
Developing a U.S. Strategy for Dealing with China — Now and into the Future 2014
The U.S. Army in Asia, 2030-2040 2014
Overcoming Obstacles to Peace 2013
Overcoming Obstacles to Peace: Local Factors in Nation-Building 2013
RAND Review: Vol. 37, No. 1, Summer 2013 2013
The Case for Expanding Assistance to the Syrian Opposition 2012
RAND Review: Vol. 36, No. 2, Fall 2012 2012
RAND Review: Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2012 2012
What’s the Potential for Conflict with China, and How Can It Be Avoided? 2012
Afghanistan: Guidelines for a Peace Process 2011
Afghan Peace Talks: A Primer 2011
Conflict with China: Prospects, Consequences, and Strategies for Deterrence 2011
Coping with a Nuclearizing Iran 2011
The Long Shadow of 9/11: America's Response to Terrorism 2011
RAND Review: Vol. 35, No. 3, Winter 2011-2012 2011
Building a More Resilient Haitian State: Key Recommendations and Priorities 2010
Building a More Resilient Haitian State: French translation of summary 2010
Building a More Resilient Haitian State 2010
RAND Review: Vol. 34, No. 3, Winter 2010-2011 2010
Reconstructing Haiti 2010
Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan 2009
Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan 2009
Iran Sanctions: Options, Opportunities, and Consequences 2009
Occupying Iraq: A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority 2009
U.S. Policy in Afghanistan: Basic Questions -- Strategic Choices 2009
After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan 2008
After the War: Nation-Building from FDR to George W. Bush 2008
Does America Need A New Grand Strategy? 2008
Europe's Role in Nation-Building: From the Balkans to the Congo 2008
RAND Review: Vol. 32, No. 3, Fall 2008 2008
The Beginner’s Guide to Nation-Building 2007
A Comparative Evaluation of United Nations Peacekeeping 2007
Coping with Iran: Confrontation, Containment, or Engagement? A Conference Report 2007
Ending Afghanistan's Civil War 2007
Ending Afghanistan's Civil War 2007
A Guide to Nation Building 2007
Negotiating with Iran 2007
Policy Insight, Volume 1, Issue 5, October 2007: Shaping the Policy Priorities for Post-Conflict Reconstruction 2007
Testimony before the French Commission on Defense and National Security 2007
U.S. Policy Options in the Iraq Crisis 2007
Securing Tyrants or Fostering Reform? U.S. Internal Security Assistance to Repressive and Transitioning Regimes 2006
The RAND History of Nation-Building 2005
RAND Review: Vol. 29, No. 1, Spring 2005 2005
The UN's Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq 2005
Aid During Conflict: Interaction Between Military and Civilian Assistance Providers in Afghanistan, September 2001-June 2002 2004
The Effect of Terrorist Attacks in Spain on Transatlantic Cooperation in the War on Terror 2004
A Fresh Start for Haiti? Charting Future U.S. Haitian Relations 2004
Stabilization and Reconstruction Civilian Management Act of 2004 2004
U.S. Policy Toward Southeast Europe: Unfinished Business in the Balkans 2004
America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq 2003
Next Steps in Iraq and Beyond 2003
RAND Review: Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2003 2003

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