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European Vulnerabilities to Russian Pressures
Given Russiaโs annexation of Crimea and continued aggression in eastern Ukraine, Europe must reassess its approach to a regional security environmen...
The Maidan Revolution in Ukraine created an opportunity for change and reforms in a system that had resisted them for 25 years. This report examines U...
Iran is one of the United States' most important foreign policy concerns. It has also been an extraordinarily difficult country with which to engage. ...
The Nation-Building Challenge
A year after Qaddafi's death, the light-footprint approach adopted for Libya's postwar transition is facing its most serious test. Security, the polit...
An Overview of Budgets and Capabilities
The authors assess how Russian military forces are postured and resourced and how they are likely to operate. They also discuss the goals and effects ...
Can the United States Secure an Insecure State?
The authors exposit likely developments in Pakistan's internal and external security environment over the coming decade; assess Pakistan's national wi...
Since the early 1980s, a prominent and consistent conclusion drawn from research on China's defense-industrial complex has been that China's defense-p...
Sources and Implications
As Russia's economy has grown, so have the country's global involvement and influence, which often take forms that the United States neither expects n...
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States, NATO, the United Nations, and a range of other states and nongovernmental organizations have become ...
This report assesses the effectiveness of Chinaโs industrial policies, using Chinaโs commercial aviation manufacturing industry as a case study. I...
This monograph presents an analysis of the current environment for foreign trade and investment in Ukraine and a set of policy proposals that would se...
From the Balkans to the Congo
Two previous RAND volumes addressed the roles of the United States and the United Nations in nation-building, defined as the use of armed force in the...
The performance of labor markets is important both for the smooth functioning of the economy, and in providing accurate signals about labor supply and...
In 2007, the United States imported 58 percent of the oil it consumed. This book critically evaluates commonly suggested links between these imports a...
The United States maintains important interests in Afghanistan, even as most U.S. and allied troops are withdrawn in 2014. Seth G. Jones and Keith Cra...
Forces and Expenditures
This report assesses the current and future contribution of the East German armed forces to the Warsaw Pact and attempts to determine whether their ro...
Prewar Planning and the Occupation of Iraq
This monograph examines prewar planning efforts for the reconstruction of postwar Iraq. It then examines the role of U.S. military forces after major ...
Coercion--the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior--is a critical function of the U.S. military. U.S. forces have rec...
This guidebook is designed to help U.S. Army personnel more effectively use economic assistance to support economic and infrastructure development. It...
This report provides military expenditure estimates for the Northern Tier countries of the Warsaw Pact (Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic...
This paper discusses using an oil tax to fund U.S. transportation infrastructure. The paper discusses the pros and cons of an oil tax to take the plac...
"This report assesses the effectiveness of specialization agreements for increasing economic integration and achieving other policy goals of the Counc...
Opportunities and Constraints
To help the U.S. Air Force assess the resources the government of the People's Republic of China is likely to spend on its military over the next two ...
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Identifies drivers of opium poppy cultivation in southern Afghanistan and assesses effects of programs to promote rural development, eradicate opium p...
This report develops various scenarios to analyze the hard currency debt problems of Poland, Hungary, and Romania. It considers the effect of adjustme...
This report analyzes the collapse of Communist rule in Eastern Europe in 1989 and assesses the role of changes in Soviet foreign policy in precipitati...
Background for Negotiations : Executive Summary
This report assesses the value to the United States and to the Republic of the Philippines of U.S. access to military facilities in the Philippines. E...
Hope for a prosperous and peaceful future for Haiti lies in building a more effective, resilient state. This report identifies the main challenges to ...
The Implications of Demographic and Economic Trends
This report assesses likely demographic and economic trends in the Arab world through 2020, focusing on changes that are likely to affect U.S. defense...
Iraq is the most pressing national security issue facing the United States today. This book evaluates the costs and benefits of five alternative strat...
Risks and Opportunities
On May 18, 2005, the RAND Corporation and the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States held a conference to promote discussion betwe...
This report examines probable changes in Soviet economic policies toward Eastern Europe during the next decade. It studies the issue of Soviet economi...
Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City is a planned environmentally and technologically advanced city in China's Guangzhou Development District that ...
"This report proposes a set of land use and transportation goals and strategies and an accompanying system of indicators to characterize and monitor q...
In 2008, RAND carried out a survey of conditions in Anbar Province, once one of Iraq1s most violent areas. The resulting data on demographics, employm...
Assessing Stresses, Opportunities, and Resilience in the Transmission, Storage, and Distribution Systems for Oil and Refined-oil Products, Electricity, and Natural Gas
"The purpose of this analysis was to help the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis assess how energy transmission,...