RAND > Published Research >

Perspectives

RAND perspectives present informed perspective on a timely topic that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors. All RAND perspectives undergo rigorous peer review to ensure high standards for research quality and objectivity.

2018

How Might Artificial Intelligence Affect the Risk of Nuclear War?

Edward Geist, Andrew J. Lohn
Neither Deportation nor Amnesty: An Alternative for the Immigration Debate Building a Bridge Across the Deportation–Amnesty Divide

Douglas C. Ligor
New Challenges in Cross-Domain Deterrence

King Mallory
Understanding Deterrence

Michael J. Mazarr

2017

3D Printing: Downstream Production Transforming the Supply Chain

Simon Veronneau, Geoffrey Torrington, Jakub P. Hlavka
Against the rising tide: an overview of the growing criminalization of the Mediterranean basin

Giacomo Persi Paoli, Jacopo Bellasio
Autonomous Vehicles and Federal Safety Standards: An Exemption to the Rule?

Laura Fraade-Blanar, Nidhi Kalra
Biosimilar Cost Savings in the United States: Initial Experience and Future Potential

Andrew W. Mulcahy, Jakub P. Hlavka, Spencer R. Case
Civic Engagement: How Can Digital Technology Encourage Greater Engagement in Civil Society?

Talitha Dubow, Axelle Devaux, Catriona Manville
The Concert of Europe and Great-Power Governance Today: What Can the Order of 19th-Century Europe Teach Policymakers About International Order in the 21st Century?

Kyle Lascurettes
Conflict with China Revisited: Prospects, Consequences, and Strategies for Deterrence

James Dobbins, Andrew Scobell, Edmund J. Burke, David C. Gompert, Derek Grossman, Eric Heginbotham, Howard J. Shatz
Cross-Cutting Challenges and their Implications for the Mediterranean region

Michael McNerney, Giacomo Persi Paoli, Sarah Grand-Clement
Defence and security after Brexit: A snapshot of international perspectives on the implications of the UK's decision to leave the EU

Jeremy Ghez, Magdalena Kirchner, Michael Shurkin, Anna Knack, Alexandra Hall, James Black
Developing Senior Leaders for the Reserve Components

Michael J. Mazarr
Digital Currency and the Future of Transacting

Katherine Stewart, Salil Gunashekar, Catriona Manville
Does the U.S. No-Concessions Policy Deter Kidnappings of Americans?

Brian Michael Jenkins
Education: Digital technology's role in enabling skills development for a connected world

Axelle Devaux, Julie Belanger, Sarah Grand-Clement, Catriona Manville
Empowering ISIS Opponents on Twitter

Todd C. Helmus, Elizabeth Bodine-Baron
The Future of Sectarian Relations in the Middle East

Jeffrey Martini, Heather J. Williams, William Young
Inching Toward Reform: Trump's Deregulation and Its Implementation

Benjamin M. Miller, Frank Camm, Marjory S. Blumenthal, Jesse Lastunen, Kenneth W. Miller
Informing Pittsburgh's Options to Address Lead in Water

Linnea Warren May, Jordan R. Fischbach, Michele Abbott
Iranian Domestic Challenges to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

Alireza Nader, Ali Scotten, James Hoobler
Knowing the Enemy: Understanding the Islamic State and Principles for Defeating It

Terrence Kelly, James Dobbins, Barbara Sude, Ben Connable
Open Science: The citizen's role and contribution to research

Elta Smith, Sarah Parks, Salil Gunashekar, Catherine A. Lichten, Anna Knack, Catriona Manville
The Origins of America's Jihadists

Brian Michael Jenkins
A Peace Plan for Syria III: Agreed Zones of Control, Decentralization, and International Administration

James Dobbins, Philip Gordon, Jeffrey Martini
A Peace Plan for Syria IV: A Bottom-Up Approach, Linking Reconstruction Assistance to Local Government Formation

James Dobbins, Philip Gordon, Jeffrey Martini
Personalizing Antipsychotic Treatment of Schizophrenia: Monitoring Plasma Levels for Improved Treatment Decisions

Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, Zachary Predmore, Soeren Mattke
Preventing State Collapse in Syria

Andrew Parasiliti, Kathleen Reedy, Becca Wasser
The Promise of Community Citizen Science

Ramya Chari, Luke J. Matthews, Marjory S. Blumenthal, Amanda F. Edelman, Therese Jones
Quality Rating and Improvement Systems for Early Care and Education Programs: Making the Second Generation Better

Jill S. Cannon, Gail L. Zellman, Lynn A. Karoly, Heather L. Schwartz
Regional foreign policy dynamics and their implications for the Mediterranean Region

Christopher S. Chivvis, Benjamin Fishman
Resilience to a Changing Climate in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: Progress, Challenges, Information Gaps, and Opportunities

Neil Berg, Debra Knopman, Benjamin F. Hobbs, Klaus Keller, Robert E. Nicholas
The Risks of Artificial Intelligence to Security and the Future of Work

Osonde A. Osoba, William Welser IV
Russian Strategy in the Middle East

James Sladden, Becca Wasser, Ben Connable, Sarah Grand-Clement
The Russian Way of Warfare: A Primer

Scott Boston, Dara Massicot
SIGINT for Anyone: The Growing Availability of Signals Intelligence in the Public Domain

Cortney Weinbaum, Steven Berner, Bruce McClintock
Small Unmanned Aerial System Certification and Traffic Management Systems

Kenneth Kuhn
A Strategy to Counter ISIL as a Transregional Threat

Lynn E. Davis, Jeffrey Martini, Kim Cragin
Strengthening Strategic Stability with Russia

Christopher S. Chivvis, Andrew Radin, Dara Massicot, Clinton Bruce Reach
Troubled waters: a snapshot of security challenges in the Mediterranean region

James Black, Alexandra Hall, Giacomo Persi Paoli, Richard Warnes
U.S. Strategic Interests in the Middle East and Implications for the Army

Karl P. Mueller, Becca Wasser, Jeffrey Martini, Stephen Watts
The Value of Out-of-School Time Programs

Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Anamarie Whitaker, Paul Youngmin Yoo

2016

American Grand Strategy and the Liberal Order: Continuity, Change, and Options for the Future

Hal Brands
Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons in Health Care: Policy Options for Covering High-Cost Cures

Soeren Mattke, Harry H. Liu, Emily Hoch, Andrew W. Mulcahy
The Challenges of the "Now" and Their Implications for the U.S. Army

David E. Johnson
Do Significant Terrorist Attacks Increase the Risk of Further Attacks? Initial Observations from a Statistical Analysis of Terrorist Attacks in the United States and Europe from 1970 to 2013

Brian Michael Jenkins, Henry H. Willis, Bing Han
False Alarms, True Dangers? Current and Future Risks of Inadvertent U.S.-Russian Nuclear War

Anthony Barrett
Improving Decisionmaking in a Turbulent World

Charles P. Ries
Introducing Value-Based Purchasing into TRICARE Reform

Susan D. Hosek, Melony E. Sorbero, Grant Martsolf, Ryan Kandrack

Page 1 of 3
1
2
3
Next