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Why do some individuals engage in political violence in Yemen, while others do not? We examine the role that social, political, and economic factors p...
For decades, the two-state solution has dominated efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Growing doubts about the viability of the two-s...
This report examines what binds and divides the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) statesโBahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United...
Executive Summary
For much of the past century, the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has been a defining feature of the Middle East. Despite billions of dolla...
Assessing the Use of the Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan
This report examines the use of the Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) in Afghanistan. It explores the effectiveness of CERP in supporting ...
In an era of intensifying debate over U.S. funding and resources, RAND researchers explore whether and to what extent the United States derives econom...
The Economic Impact of Islamic State Governance in Iraq and Syria
This report leverages remote sensing data and satellite imagery to assess the impact that Islamic State control and governance have on local economies...
An Interactive Visualization
For more than half a century, U.S. leadership of the international system has been justified, in part, by claims of a positive relationship between gl...
Lessons from Afghanistan
RAND researchers identify lessons from the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations in Afghanistan, which sought to use private-sector strateg...
Economic integration in the Levant-in the form of a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) that eliminates tariffs, lowers investment and nontariff ...
Appendixes
This appendix provides a detailed review of the types of data and associated analytical techniques that are available for the assessment team. This is...
Through case studies and economic modeling, this research on government strategic investment will help acquisition managers evaluate strategic investm...
The authors describe an approach for leveraging machine learning to support assessment of military operations. They demonstrate how machine learning c...
Lessons from Five Years of RAND Research
Yemen's civil war entered its sixth year in 2021. This report describes the challenges facing efforts to achieve an enduring peace in Yemen and outlin...
Lessons from Historical Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Efforts
This report analyzes historic cases of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration to inform present U.S. policy on Iraq's Popular Mobilization For...
How can the success (or failure) of Army special operations missions be assessed? The authors develop a methodology for doing so and illustrate the pr...
Exploring a Hypothetical Campaign of Cascading Impacts
"In this report, the authors discuss threats to critical infrastructure (CI) and put forward a hypothetical case study to examine several phases of an...
A Demonstration Using the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine
This report explores how machine learning can be leveraged to enable military decisionmaking at the operational level of competition and conflict as a...
An Analysis of People's Liberation Army Missions, Tasks, and Potential Vulnerabilities
The authors (1) identify tasks that the Chinese military would likely be assigned in peacetime competition with the United States and in a hypothetica...
A Survey
"U.S. critical infrastructure supports the prosperity of the nation and its people. It permeates the daily lives of citizens, underpinning the safety ...
An Analytical Memoir
The United States has failed to achieve strategic objectives in nearly every military campaign since Vietnam. This memoir describes how the United Sta...