DOCSLIB.ORG

RAND Review: May-June 2017

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
RAND Review: May-June 2017 May June 2017 RRRREVIEW WHAT WE KNOW AND DON’T KNOW ABOUT SUICIDE PAGE 8 PREVENTING SUICIDE ARE THERE SIGNS? Let’s talk about TRUTH DECAY The crisis of the MEDITERRANEAN Shaping the future of the MIDDLE EAST BOOK 1 TOOL BLOG VIDEO TESTIMONY 2 3 4 5 Picks Five 1: EGAL/GETTY1: IMAGES; 2: CATLANE/GETTY IMAGES; 3: PRAZIS/FOTOLIA; 4: MEDIAPHOTOS/GETTY IMAGES; 5: BAKHTIAR_ZEIN/ GETTY IMAGES 1. Separate Ways 2. Filling the 3. When the 4. Reducing Mass 5. Deterring Brexit negotiations Unmet Needs of Caliphate Falls Incarceration Cyberattacks have focused on Veterans The splintering RAND researchers Management trade, sovereignty, This interactive tool of ISIS should be have been exploring scientist Martin C. and immigration. features data and welcomed. But the effects of Libicki, in testimony But the UK’s decision information about splinter groups correctional presented before to leave the EU also state-level programs can have different education on the House Armed raises important collected in support objectives and recidivism and post- Services Committee defense and security of a study of the operating procedures release employment in March 2017, says questions. needs and well-being from those of the outcomes, and its that it takes more of Massachusetts parent organization, cost-effectiveness. than offensive MORE AT www.rand.org/t/RR1786 veterans and and the world will The results are capability to National Guard/ need to adjust its encouraging. have an effective reserve members. counterterrorism cyberdeterrence MORE AT strategies to address www.rand.org/v161212 posture. MORE AT these differences. www.rand.org/t/TL228 MORE AT MORE AT www.rand.org/t/CT465 www.rand.org/ b170306isis RAND May–June 2017 RRRREVIEW Is suicide preventable? What if we’re looking for 8 solutions in the wrong place? Wilkins Kearney (left) died by suicide in 2016. He was 41, recently married, and— according to friends and family—never displayed any warning signs in the days before his death. RAND research has found that the warning signs that have become a focus of public-service campaigns might not be reliable. Greater focus on mental- health services and family support might be more effective. Voices The Eye on the corrosive danger Mediterranean The of truth decay region faces historic challenges to its safety 4 12 and security. The migrant crisis is just the start Research The Q&A Dalia Giving Taking 2 Briefly 16 Dassa Kaye on 20 a stand against the issues that misinformation are shaping the Middle East RAND By the at RANDom 6 at a Glance 17 Numbers 21 RAND, “demon dialing,” and the movie that shook 6 1 0 2 T R O P E R a president L A U N N News A C O R P O R A T I O N 18 COVER: DRAFTER123?GETTYIMAGES RAND BOARD OF TRUSTEES EDITORIAL LETTERS REPORTS KAREN ELLIOTT HOUSE (chair), Steve Baeck, Manager Send letters to RAND REVIEW, 1776 RAND reports are available on MICHAEL LYNTON (vice chair), Corporate Communications Main Street, P.O. Box 2138, Santa rand.org for free PDF download or BARBARA BARRETT, CARL BILDT, Monica, CA 90407-2138, or e-mail can be purchased as hard copies. RICHARD J. DANZIG, KENNETH R. DESIGN [email protected] RAND e-books are also available for FEINBERG, MALCOLM GLADWELL, Dori Gordon Walker PERMISSIONS Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iBooks, R RRREVIEW MICHAEL GOULD, PEDRO JOSÉ For information about using material and for most other popular e-book GREER, JR., CHUCK HAGEL, BONNIE platforms. PRODUCTION published in RAND REVIEW, visit www. G. HILL, JOEL Z. HYATT, LIONEL C. MAY–JUNE 2017 Todd Duft rand.org/publications/permissions/ SEARCH JOHNSON, PAUL G. KAMINSKI, ANN RAND documents can be searched MCLAUGHLIN KOROLOGOS, PHILIP COPIES For hard copies of RAND REVIEW, call by author, title, and category at OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS. LADER, JAMES B. LOVELACE, PETER CIRCULATION (877) 584-8642 (toll free) or (310) 451- www.rand.org/pubs LOWY, SOLEDAD O’BRIEN, GERALD L. Nora Pasco EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS. 7002 (outside the United States); send PARSKY, MARY E. PETERS, DAVID L. WWW.RAND.ORG a fax to (412) 802-4981; or e-mail PORGES, DONALD B. RICE, MICHAEL [email protected] © Copyright 2017 RAND Corporation D. RICH, HECTOR RUIZ, LEONARD D. SCHAEFFER R is a registered trademark. TRUSTEES EMERITI C O R P O R A T I O N HAROLD BROWN, FRANK C. CARLUCCI Research Briefly MERIEL WAISSMAN MERIEL In Pursuit of Security and Opportunity American politics have become so bitterly dysfunctional its role as the sponsor—and chief economic beneficiary—of that they now pose the greatest threat to effective U.S. lead- world order; or realign its domestic and foreign policies to ership in the world, RAND experts warn. focus first and foremost on becoming more competitive in The international order that the United States and its allies the world economy. built from the wreckage of World War II is fraying. The Each of these paths has costs and benefits, and a real an- world has entered a new and turbulent age, the experts swer to America’s problems will likely have to borrow from concluded: “Threats that once came from ‘somewhere’ can them all. But they all share the same first step: Leaders in now come from ‘anywhere.’” Washington need to put aside their partisan differences America faces a “Rubik’s Cube” of international risk—from and reach some agreement over when and where America Russia, China, and the Islamic State to emerging diseases, engages in the world, and how it plans to pay for that. Any- nuclear proliferation, and climate change. It is still better thing less, the experts warned, will only magnify the risks positioned than any of its rivals to address those threats, we already face. the experts wrote, but first it must break the political dead- MORE AT www.rand.org/t/RR1631 lock of Washington. The nation needs a strategic vision, a consensus on the role Support for this RAND Venture was provided, in part, by the generosity of RAND’s donors. Special appreciation goes to the Hauser Foundation for its it wants to play in world affairs. It can choose one of three generous gift in support of the “Strategic Rethink” series and to Rita Hauser for plausible paths: turn its attention inward and prioritize encouraging RAND to undertake it. domestic renewal over international engagement; reaffirm 2 RAND.ORG | MAY–JUNE 2017 TURKEY Predominantly Kurdish areas IRAN SYRIA IRAQ 12,000 Futures The Colorado River supplies water to more than 30 million people. It supports billions of dollars in economic activity Implications of and irrigates 15 percent of all U.S. crops. Yet growing de- mand and a changing climate have muddied its future. an Independent That poses real challenges for water managers and planners trying to preserve the Colorado as a lifeline for the Ameri- Kurdistan can southwest. To cut through the uncertainty, RAND The Kurds have become the largest diaspora community researchers recently analyzed not just one possible future, in the world, a nation of some 30 million people without a but 12,000 of them. And they did it over lunch. country of their own. What they have instead is a moun- Water managers, who have been working for years to en- tainous patch of northern Iraq where they run their own sure the river will continue to meet its diverse needs, first schools, patrol their own borders, and dream of an inde- turned to RAND for assistance in 2012. RAND’s approach pendent Kurdistan. put a twist on the usual forecasting methods. Rather than A recent RAND report analyzed what it would mean for try to predict the future and then plan for it, they developed regional stability if the Kurds ever did break away from Iraq their planning options first and then tested how well they and form a new country. It focused especially on how the would work against many different scenarios. three regional powers that share the neighborhood—Iraq, That kind of modeling requires some serious computer Iran, and Turkey—might respond. power; the 2012 study took an entire summer of analysis. In All three have historically opposed Kurdish independence, an unprecedented partnership, RAND researchers joined often violently. Turkey and Iran have their own Kurdish COMPUTER: LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY; COLORADO RIVER: SCOTTSFJ40/GETTY IMAGES SCOTTSFJ40/GETTY RIVER: COLORADO LABORATORY; NATIONAL LIVERMORE LAWRENCE COMPUTER: forces with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to populations and have been wary of any independence demonstrate how high- movement spreading. speed supercomputers could revolutionize such But both have established investment and trade ties with planning. the Kurds in northern Iraq, ever since a no-fly zone estab- lished their enclave in 1991. Turkey, especially, might prefer They asked water man- to have a stable Kurdish state on its southern border, rather agers in the Colorado than rely on Baghdad to keep the peace there. basin to develop five new water-management In fact, Baghdad might be the only regional capital that strategies. They then used would still fight to keep the Kurds as part of Iraq. But a Lawrence Livermore su- it also has to worry about the Islamic State, a financial percomputer to evaluate crisis, and ethnic and political divisions that have split those strategies against the government. It might not have the wherewithal to stop 12,000 possible future them from leaving. scenarios, a total of 60,000 Researchers concluded that a negotiated split of the Kurds simulations. The same analysis that demanded months of from Iraq could be done peacefully, with the conditional computing a few years ago took just 45 minutes with the su- approval of Iran and Turkey.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Annual Report
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ANNUAL REPORT July 1,1996-June 30,1997 Main Office Washington Office The Harold Pratt House 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 58 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10021 Washington, DC 20036 Tel. (212) 434-9400; Fax (212) 861-1789 Tel. (202) 518-3400; Fax (202) 986-2984 Website www. foreignrela tions. org e-mail publicaffairs@email. cfr. org OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS, 1997-98 Officers Directors Charlayne Hunter-Gault Peter G. Peterson Term Expiring 1998 Frank Savage* Chairman of the Board Peggy Dulany Laura D'Andrea Tyson Maurice R. Greenberg Robert F Erburu Leslie H. Gelb Vice Chairman Karen Elliott House ex officio Leslie H. Gelb Joshua Lederberg President Vincent A. Mai Honorary Officers Michael P Peters Garrick Utley and Directors Emeriti Senior Vice President Term Expiring 1999 Douglas Dillon and Chief Operating Officer Carla A. Hills Caryl R Haskins Alton Frye Robert D. Hormats Grayson Kirk Senior Vice President William J. McDonough Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. Paula J. Dobriansky Theodore C. Sorensen James A. Perkins Vice President, Washington Program George Soros David Rockefeller Gary C. Hufbauer Paul A. Volcker Honorary Chairman Vice President, Director of Studies Robert A. Scalapino Term Expiring 2000 David Kellogg Cyrus R. Vance Jessica R Einhorn Vice President, Communications Glenn E. Watts and Corporate Affairs Louis V Gerstner, Jr. Abraham F. Lowenthal Hanna Holborn Gray Vice President and Maurice R. Greenberg Deputy National Director George J. Mitchell Janice L. Murray Warren B. Rudman Vice President and Treasurer Term Expiring 2001 Karen M. Sughrue Lee Cullum Vice President, Programs Mario L. Baeza and Media Projects Thomas R.
    [Show full text]
  • Summer 2019 Belfer Center Newsletter
    Summer 2019 www.belfercenter.org OUR ONE EARTH ACTING ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS PAGES 4–5 “Our real aim should be not simply to limit the amount of climate change that occurs (mitigation), but also to reduce the actual harm to society and to ecosystems from the changes in climate that can no longer be avoided (adaptation). Limiting the harm overall will require enormous efforts in both mitigation and adaptation, all around the world.” –JOHN P. HOLDREN PLUS: Big Tech & Democracy · Ethics in Intelligence · U.S.-Russia Blueprint From the Director n today’s tight labor market, competition * * * Ifor talented young people is fierce. Here at One reason the Belfer Center has such strong Harvard Kennedy School, that means many academic impact is because of the excellence of Staff Spotlight: graduating students are entertaining several its quarterly journal, International Security, and Amanda Sardonis attractive job offers. No doubt they’ll make their its long-time editor, Sean Lynn-Jones. Sean new employers happy. retired this year after three decades of outstand- Amanda Sardonis loves and lives her work. More important than their performance, ing service, leading the journal to a repeated No. As Associate Director of the Environment and however, is the spirit of public purpose they 1 worldwide ranking. Sean is also an influential Natural Resources Program (ENRP), she sup- bring to their work. This is true for both writer and scholar: His 1998 article, “Why the ports the program’s research, manages student government and private-sector roles. United States Should Spread Democracy,” has engagement and fellowship programs—including Let’s not kid ourselves: governance is hard, become a classic.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Report
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS AN NUAL RE PORT JULY 1, 2003-JUNE 30, 2004 Main Office Washington Office The Harold Pratt House 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW 58 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10021 Washington, DC 20036 Tel. (212) 434-9400; Fax (212) 434-9800 Tel. (202) 518-3400; Fax (202) 986-2984 Website www.cfr.org E-mail [email protected] OFFICERS and DIRECTORS 2004-2005 OFFICERS DIRECTORS Term Expiring 2009 Peter G. Peterson* Term Expiring 2005 Madeleine K. Albright Chairman of the Board Jessica P Einhorn Richard N. Fostert Carla A. Hills* Louis V Gerstner Jr. Maurice R. Greenbergt Vice Chairman Carla A. Hills*t Robert E. Rubin George J. Mitchell Vice Chairman Robert E. Rubin Joseph S. Nye Jr. Richard N. Haass Warren B. Rudman Fareed Zakaria President Andrew Young Michael R Peters Richard N. Haass ex officio Executive Vice President Term Expiring 2006 Janice L. Murray Jeffrey L. Bewkes Senior Vice President OFFICERS AND and Treasurer Henry S. Bienen DIRECTORS, EMERITUS David Kellogg Lee Cullum AND HONORARY Senior Vice President, Corporate Richard C. Holbrooke Leslie H. Gelb Affairs, and Publisher Joan E. Spero President Emeritus Irina A. Faskianos Vice President, Vin Weber Maurice R. Greenberg Honorary Vice Chairman National Program and Academic Outreach Term Expiring 2007 Charles McC. Mathias Jr. Elise Carlson Lewis Fouad Ajami Director Emeritus Vice President, Membership David Rockefeller Kenneth M. Duberstein and Fellowship Affairs Honorary Chairman Ronald L. Olson James M. Lindsay Robert A. Scalapino Vice President, Director of Peter G. Peterson* t Director Emeritus Studies, Maurice R. Creenberg Chair Lhomas R.
    [Show full text]
  • Kings for All Seasons
    BROOKINGS DOHA CENTER ANALYSIS PAPER Number 8, September 2013 KINGS FOR ALL SEASONS: HOW THE MIDDLE EAST’S MONARCHIES SURVIVED THE ARAB SPRING F. GREGORY GAUSE, III B ROOKINGS The Brookings Institution is a private non-profit organization. Its mission is to conduct high-quality, independent research and, based on that research, to provide innovative, practical recommendations for policymakers and the public. The conclusions and recommendations of any Brookings publica- tion are solely those of its author(s) and do not reflect the views of the Institution, its management, or its scholars. Copyright © 2013 THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 U.S.A. www.brookings.edu BROOKINGS DOHA CENTER Saha 43, Building 63, West Bay, Doha, Qatar www.brookings.edu/about/centers/doha T A B LE OF C ON T EN T S I. Executive Summary ............................................................................................................1 II. Introduction ......................................................................................................................3 III. “Just Wait, They Will Fall” .............................................................................................5 IV. The Strange Case of Monarchical Stability .....................................................................8 Cultural Legitimacy ...................................................................................................8 Functional Superiority: Performance and Reform ..................................................12
    [Show full text]
  • A Single Organization Controls Almost Everything You See, Hear, and Read in the Media and They've Been Handpicking Your Leaders for Decades
    by Matt Agorist January 29, 2018 from TheFreeThoughtProject Website A single organization controls almost everything you see, hear, and read in the media and they've been handpicking your leaders for decades. It is no secret that over the last 4 decades, mainstream media has been consolidated from dozens of competing companies to only six. Hundreds of channels, websites, news outlets, newspapers, and magazines, making up ninety percent of all media is controlled by very few people, giving Americans the illusion of choice. While six companies controlling most everything the Western world consumes in regard to media may sound like a sinister arrangement, the Swiss Propaganda Research center (SPR) has just released information that is even worse. The research group was able to tie all these media companies to a single organization: the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). For those who may be unaware, the CFR is a primary member of the circle of Washington think-tanks promoting endless war. As former Army Major Todd Pierce describes, this group acts as "primary provocateurs" using, "'psychological suggestiveness' to create a false narrative of danger from some foreign entity with the objective being to create paranoia within the U.S. population that it is under imminent threat of attack or takeover." A senior member of the CFR and outspoken neocon warmonger, Robert Kagan has even publicly proclaimed that the U.S. should create an empire. The narrative created by CFR and its cohorts is picked up by their secondary communicators, also known the mainstream media, who push it on the populace with no analysis or questioning.
    [Show full text]
  • American Policy and Changing Alignments in the Middle East
    American Policy and Changing Alignments in the Middle East Adam Lammon American Policy and Changing Alignments in the Middle East Geoffrey Kemp, John Allen Gay, Adam Lammon Center for the National Interest The Center for the National Interest is a nonpartisan public policy institution established by former President Richard Nixon in 1994. Its current programs focus on American defense and national security, energy and climate security, regional security in the Middle East, and U.S. relations with China, Japan, Europe, and Russia. The Center also publishes the bimonthly foreign affairs magazine The National Interest. The Center is supported by foundation, corporate and individual donors, as well as by an endowment. Copyright 2018. Center for the National Interest. All Rights Reserved. American Policy and Changing Alignments in the Middle East By Geoffrey Kemp, John Allen Gay, Adam Lammon Center for the National Interest 1025 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 1200 Washington, D.C. 20036 Phone: (202) 887-1000 E-mail: [email protected] www.cftni.org Cover design by Gabriella Turrisi Photographs from Reuters: From top (front to back): Yannis Behrakis, Reuters, Erik de Castro, Azad Lashkari Acknowledgments This study was supported by a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation and with encouragement from the Center for the National Interest’s Executive Director, Paul J. Saunders. The Center for the National Interest would like to thank Henri Barkey, Fiona Hill, Dennis Ross, James Dobbins, Steven Szabo, and Charles W. Freeman for their participation in a series of seminars that were invaluable in structuring the research and argumentation, as well as the Center’s former Program Assistant, Luke Hagberg, and interns Bradley L.
    [Show full text]
  • Allies, Adversaries & Enemies
    Allies, Adversaries & Enemies: AMERICA’S INCREASINGLY COMPLEX ALLIANCES A DIVISION OF THE FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES WASHINGTON, D.C. Copyright © 2014 by FDD Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition For more information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to: [email protected], or Permissions, FDD Press, P.O. Box 33249, Washington, D.C. 20033 ISBN: 978-0981971278 Cover design: Beth Singer Design / www.bethsingerdesign.com Publication design: Basis / www.basisbranding.com Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .......................................................................................... iii INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 When U.S. Allies Are Also Adversaries and Enemies: A Growing Trend ........................................................................... 1 Jonathan Schanzer and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross PAKISTAN CHAPTER 2 A Handcuffed Superpower: The U.S., Pakistan, and the Afghanistan War ......................................................................... 13 Daveed Gartenstein-Ross CHAPTER 3 Pakistan’s Proxies, Al-Qaeda’s Allies .......................................... 21 Thomas Joscelyn CHAPTER 4 Back to the Future: The Return to a Pre-9/11 World in Pakistan and Afghanistan .......................................................................... 33 Reuel Marc Gerecht SAUDI ARABIA CHAPTER 5 Sources of American Frustration with Saudi Arabia ................ 43 David Andrew Weinberg CHAPTER 6 The Sequel: How the Saudis are Letting the
    [Show full text]
  • Spring 2021 Nonfiction Rights Guide
    Spring 2021 Nonfiction Rights Guide 19 West 21st St. Suite 501, New York, NY 10010 / Telephone: (212) 765-6900 / E-mail: [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS SCIENCE, BUSINESS & CURRENT AFFAIRS HOUSE OF STICKS THE BIG HURT BRAIN INFLAMMED HORSE GIRLS FIRST STEPS YOU HAD ME AT PET NAT RUNNER’S HIGH MY BODY TALENT MUHAMMAD, THE WORLD-CHANGER WINNING THE RIGHT GAME VIVIAN MAIER DEVELOPED SUPERSIGHT THE SUM OF TRIFLES THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS AUGUST WILSON WHO IS BLACK, AND WHY? CRYING IN THE BATHROOM PROJECT TOTAL RECALL I REGRET I AM ABLE TO ATTEND BLACK SKINHEAD REBEL TO AMERICA CHANGING GENDER KIKI MAN RAY EVER GREEN MURDER BOOK RADICAL RADIANCE DOT DOT DOT FREEDOM IS NOT ENOUGH HOW TO SAY BABYLON THE RISE OF THE MAMMALS THE RECKONING RECOVERY GUCCI TO GOATS TINDERBOX RHAPSODY AMERICAN RESISTANCE SWOLE APOCALYPSE ONBOARDING WEATHERING CONQUERING ALEXANDER VIRAL JUSTICE UNTITLED TOM SELLECK MEMOIR UNTITLED ON AI THE GLASS OF FASHION IT’S ALL TALK CHANGE BEGINS WITH A QUESTION UNTITLED ON CLASSICAL MUSIC MEMOIRS & BIOGRAPHIES STORIES I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU FIERCE POISE THE WIVES BEAUTIFUL THINGS PLEASE DON’T KILL MY BLACK SON PLEASE THE SPARE ROOM TANAQUIL NOTHING PERSONAL THE ROARING GIRL PROOF OF LIFE CITIZEN KIM BRAT DON’T THINK, DEAR TABLE OF CONTENTS, CONT. MINDFULNESS & SELF-HELP KILLING THATCHER EDITING MY EVERYTHING WE DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU ANYMORE SOUL THERAPY THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF GROWING YOUNG HISTORY TRUE AGE THE SECRETS OF SILENCE WILD MINDS THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE INTELLIGENT LOVE THE POWER OF THE DOWNSTATE
    [Show full text]
  • Challenging Stereotypes
    Challenging Stereotypes How the stereotypical portrayals of Muslims and Islam are challenged through the enemies in Homeland Gunhild-Marie Høie A Thesis Presented to the Departure of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the MA degree University of Oslo Spring 2014 I II Challenging Stereotypes How the stereotypical portrayals of Muslims and Islam are challenged through the enemies in Homeland Gunhild-Marie Høie A Thesis Presented to the Departure of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the MA degree University of Oslo Spring 2014 III © Gunhild-Marie Høie 2014 Challenging Stereotypes: How the stereotypical portrayals of Muslims and Islam are challenged in Homeland. http://www.duo.uio.no Print: Reprosentralen, University of Oslo IV V Abstract Following the terrorist attack on 9/11, actions and practices of the United States government, as well as the dominant media discourse and non-profit media advertising, contributed to create a post-9/11 climate in which Muslims and Arabs were viewed as non-American. This established a binary paradigm between Americans and Muslims, where Americans represented “us” whereas Muslims represented “them.” Through a qualitative analysis of the main characters in the post-9/11 terrorism-show, Homeland, season one (2011), as well as an analysis of the opening sequence and the overall narrative in the show, this thesis argues that this binary system of “us” and “them” is no longer black and white, but blurred, and hard to define. My analysis indicates that several of the enemies in the show break with the stereotypical portrayal of Muslims as crude, violent fanatics.
    [Show full text]
  • 2019 RAND Annual Report
    ANNUAL REPORT 2019 THE RAND CORPORATION IS A RESEARCH ORGANIZATION THAT DEVELOPS SOLUTIONS TO PUBLIC POLICY CHALLENGES TO HELP MAKE COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD SAFER AND MORE SECURE, HEALTHIER AND MORE PROSPEROUS. THE CAMPAIGN FOR RAND MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR AND THE PRESIDENT RAND’s mission—to help improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis—guides the topics we choose to tackle, our methodological approaches, and our outreach. This year, it also helped inspire RAND to launch its most ambitious fundraising campaign to date. Our campaign is focused on five priorities. Countering truth decay. “Truth decay” is the term we use to describe the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life. As a nonpartisan institution that seeks to advance the public good through research and analysis, RAND is the only research institution that has already invested in an initiative to counter this grave, existential threat. Rethinking and retooling institutions. The 20th century saw the establishment of some of the world’s most strategic and beneficent organizations. RAND will help to design a revitalized set of institutions to promote security, stability, and prosperity for the century to come—institutions essential to the disciplined, long-term, consensus-driven, and coalition-building efforts on which clear, well-supported policy depends. Strengthening and safeguarding communities. In confronting global problems such as social and economic inequity, unsustainable cities, migration and displacement, and the health of an aging population, RAND understands the need to solve these problems where people are already experiencing them firsthand—in local communities. By working at the front lines of need, RAND can pilot and refine practical tools and approaches that others can deploy right away.
    [Show full text]
  • Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea by Leon V
    DISARMING STRANGERS PRINCETON STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS Series Editors Jack L. Snyder and Richard H. Ullman Recent titles: The Moral Purpose of the State: Culture, Social Identity, and Institutional Rationality in International Relations by Christian Reus-Smit Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century by David Lake A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945–1963 by Marc Trachtenberg Regional Orders at Century’s Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy by Etel Solingen From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America’s World Role by Fareed Zakaria Changing Course: Ideas, Politics, and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan by Sarah E. Mendelson Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea by Leon V. Sigal Imagining War: French and British Military Doctrine between the Wars by Elizabeth Kier Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision-Making by Barbara Rearden Farnham Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947–1958 by Thomas J. Christensen Satellites and Commisars: Strategy and Conflict in the Politics of the Soviet-Bloc Trade by Randall W. Stone Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies by Peter Liberman Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History by Alastair Iain Johnston The Korean War: An International History by William Stueck Cooperation among Democracies: The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy by Thomas Risse-Kappen The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change by Hendrik Spruyt DISARMING STRANGERS NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY WITH NORTH KOREA Leon V. Sigal PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY COPYRIGHT1998BYPRINCETONUNIVERSITYPRESS PUBLISHED BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 41 WILLIAM STREET, PRINCETON,NEWJERSEY08540 IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, CHICHESTER,WESTSUSSEX ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THELIBRARYOFCONGRESSHASCATALOGEDTHECLOTHEDITION OFTHISBOOKASFOLLOWS SIGAL,LEONV.
    [Show full text]
  • The Internal Compass
    Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University Honors Program Theses and Projects Undergraduate Honors Program 5-9-2017 The nI ternal Compass Joshua Dyer Follow this and additional works at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/honors_proj Part of the Fiction Commons Recommended Citation Dyer, Joshua. (2017). The nI ternal Compass. In BSU Honors Program Theses and Projects. Item 197. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/honors_proj/197 Copyright © 2017 Joshua Dyer This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The Internal Compass Joshua Dyer Submitted in Partial Completion of the Requirements for Departmental Honors in English Bridgewater State University May 9, 2017 Prof. Katy Whittingham, Thesis Director Prof. Nicole Williams, Committee Member Prof. Evan Dardano, Committee Member 1 The Internal Compass -Joshua Dyer 2 Epigraph Amazing Grace By John Newton “Amazing grace how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now I'm found. Was blind but now I see. 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear And grace my fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed…” 3 Dedication For the ones that taught me that love was higher than the sky, deeper than the ocean, and more than chocolate chip pancakes. For the ones that showed me light when life seemed full of shadows. For Louise, who loved me more than I knew. 4 To Whom It Does Concern (Mrs. Robertson) To Whom It Does Concern, To you I write today, To Whom It Does Concern, I truly want to say: Thank you.
    [Show full text]