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Choosing between Imperfect Alternatives
Provides a formal theory of nonmarket failure, analyzing such problems as redundant costs, monopoly, frequency of unanticipated externalities, and bur...
Policy Issues in the Twenty-first Century
This collection of twenty-five essays written over the past five years by international economic policy expert Charles Wolf Jr. covers a range of worl...
Choosing Between Imperfect Alternatives
Practical Legal Insights for Successful Organization and Implementation
An international commercial law attourney offers an explanation of the legal theory and reality of organizing, negotiating, managing and protecting in...
Signs of Progress and Retreat on the Transitional Road
Sixteen years after the Soviet Union's demise, the Russian economy can still be appropriately characterized as transitional. The authors shed light on...
The Birth, Growth, and Structure of the Indonesian Republic
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The Economic Pivot in a Political Context, by Charles Wolf, Jr., explains how iron curtains have been replaced by porous ones in the post-cold war era...
How to Think about and Improve it
This paper sharply distinguishes "marketing" encompassed in public diplomacy from the marketing of commercial products, focusing instead on the centra...
A Training Manual
This training manual--which consists of nine lecture and seminar sessions that can be used together or alone, in full or in part--is intended for use ...
A compact, user-friendly handbook for U.S. policymakers interested in understanding the Islamic Republic of Iran. It synthesizes existing analyses on ...
In this wide-ranging collection of essays first published between 2007 and 2014, Charles Wolf Jr. shares his insights on the world's economies, includ...
Cross-Cutting Issues in Asia, the United States, and the Global Economy
This collection of essays examines the case for and against globalization, the effects of U.S. economic and foreign policy, and numerous issues relate...
The authors consider how and by how much China's stellar economic performance might be impaired by eight potential adversities that China may face in ...
Theory and Practice in Southern Asia
Most available literature on foreign aid lacks precise terminology, reliable data, and a theory that; permits profiting from experience. This book tri...
The Birth, Growth and Structure of the Indonesian Republic
An eminent economist and policy adviser offers his prescriptive analysis of the accelerating economic and political transformations of the past decade...
An Analytic Essay on Insurgent Conflicts
Comprising an account of the principal aboriginal races; a description of their national customs, mythology, and religions ceremonies ... With numerous and diversified colored illustr
Executive Summary
This report summarizes RAND research and recommendations for the strategic development planning of Hainan Island in the People's Republic of China. Th...
Theory And Practice In Southern Asia
The Proliferation Security Initiative
"The purpose of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is to prevent or at least inhibit the spread of weapons of mass destruction, their deliver...
From Playing Field to Player
Some Simplified Comments on a Complex Subject
Objectives, Method, and Application
Six institutions in five countries that have key interests in North Korea's future undertook a collaborative effort to determine ways in which the Nor...
A method is described for examining the question of how military assistance programs in less-developed countries, and their defense forces and budgets...
On September 21-22, 1990, RAND convened, in collaboration with the Sequoia Institute and with funding provided by the Agency for International Develop...
A mthod is described for dealing with the problem of self help. The method consists of deriving standards or ''norms'' for individual countries from a...
An Analysis of Research Needs and Program Possibilities Prepared from a Study Supported by the Ford Foundation
A Comparative Assessment
China and India, the world's two most populous countries, will exercise increasing influence in international affairs in the coming decades. This docu...
This monograph contains a collection of essays, most of which have been previously published, gathered without revision on the premise that they may g...
South and North Korean Capabilities for Long-term Military Competition
This report has two principal purposes: to analyze South Korea's economic, technological, and political-social capabilities for long-term competition ...
This paper contains the July 17, 1991, RAND Graduate School commencement address given by Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc....
This study develops and applies a comprehensive framework for estimating all of the economic costs incurred by the Soviet Union in acquiring, maintain...
Prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy
How much of the world's oil and energy supply will the non-OPEC less-developed countries (NOLDCs) demand in the next decade? How will their economic g...