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Articles for January 22, 2020 - January 28, 2020

Tuesday, 28 January 2020

AfPak File: Afghanistan’s Corruption Conundrum: Is There Any Way Out?

Wilson Center

Davos and Stakeholder Capitalism 2.0

Wilson Center

Disasters Have Changed. So Must Our Response.

Wilson Center

Continuous Quality Improvement: A Roadmap for the Veterinary Professions

RAND Corporation

Assessing the Landscape and Future Actions for Quality Improvement in the Veterinary Sector: The Insights, Expectations and Aspirations of the Profession

RAND Corporation

Escalation with Iran: Outcomes and Implications for U.S. Interests and Regional Stability

RAND Corporation

Escalation with Iran: Outcomes and Implications for U.S. Interests and Regional Stability

RAND Corporation

Beyond Brexit: understanding the potential economic implications of prolonged trade policy uncertainty

RAND Corporation

The End of the Beginning: Assessing the potential economic implications of prolonged UK–EU trade policy uncertainty

RAND Corporation

Spotlight 2019–2020

RAND Corporation

Further Trade Uncertainty Related to Brexit Could Cost UK Economy Billions

RAND Corporation

Access, Quality, And Financial Performance Of Rural Hospitals Following Health System Affiliation

RAND Corporation

Policies That Punish Pregnant Women for Substance Use Don't Help Mother or Baby

RAND Corporation

Is Coronavirus Another SARS?

RAND Corporation

Should the United States Rethink Its Relationship with Saudi Arabia?

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

Trump’s Lopsided Mideast Peace Plan

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

The President's Inbox: Should the United States Rethink Its Relationship with Saudi Arabia?

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

Cost and Affordability of Meeting California's Hospital Seismic Safety Requirements

RAND Corporation

Illustrating the Promise of Community Schools: An Assessment of the Impact of the New York City Community Schools Initiative

RAND Corporation

What Is the Impact of the New York City Community Schools Initiative?

RAND Corporation

Sustainable Development in International Markets: A Metrics-Based Case Study

RAND Corporation

What LAUSD Can Learn from the New York City Community Schools Initiative

RAND Corporation

What Are the Determinants of Health System Performance? Findings from the Literature and a Technical Expert Panel

RAND Corporation

Four Ways the Executive Branch Can Advance Mens Rea Reform

Heritage Foundation

Baby Tinslee Lewis and the Difficult End-of-Life Care Debate

Heritage Foundation

Technology and Great Power Competition

Heritage Foundation

The Evening: Mideast Peace, National Debt, Boston and More

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

The Novel Coronavirus Outbreak

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

What Did the United Kingdom Just Decide on Huawei and 5G?

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Podcast: Europe's far-right surge unstoppable? Case of Germany

Clingendael

Psychological Factors in Tertiary Prevention

DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations)

The Twilight of EU Foreign Policy

DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations)

Tackling the tax code: Efficient and equitable ways to raise revenue

Brookings

Tax reform for progressivity: A pragmatic approach

Brookings

How to increase growth while raising revenue: Reforming the corporate tax code

Brookings

Taxing multinational companies in the 21st century

Brookings

Raising revenue with a progressive-value added tax

Brookings

A proposal to tax financial transactions

Brookings

Taxing wealth

Brookings

Leveling the playing field between inherited income and income from work through an inheritance tax

Brookings

75 years after Auschwitz, anti-Semitism is on the rise

Brookings

Regional divergence is more than an economic dilemma—it’s a civil rights issue

Brookings

The economics of federal tax policy

Brookings

What is the repo market, and why does it matter?

Brookings

Who owes all that student debt? And who’d benefit if it were forgiven?

Brookings

Examining the root causes of America’s unsustainable fiscal path

Brookings

Angola and the money laundering paradox

Brookings

Support for governance in Africa will level the playing field for US commercial engagement with the region

Brookings

Rising to the China challenge

Brookings

¿Quiénes son los deudores de esa enorme deuda estudiantil? ¿Quién se beneficiaría si se la condonase?

Brookings

The Eastern Partnership at 10: Adapting European approaches for stability and security for the next decade

Brookings

The 2020s can end America's generational divide in politics

Brookings

Judicial appointments in Trump’s first three years: Myths and realities

Brookings

Minding the gap: How to provide more comprehensive support to the children of ISIS

Brookings

The World Economic Forum deserves criticism, but we need it now more than ever

Brookings

Why did Egyptian democratization fail?

Brookings

Creating a political strategy for stabilizing fragile states

Brookings

Deep decarbonization: A realistic way forward on climate change

Brookings

Tackling the tax code: Efficient and equitable ways to raise revenue

Brookings

Seminar | Economic development through efficient and sustainable non-fuel mining

Brookings

New START: The Future of U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Control

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

Trump’s new Middle East peace deal: A real path or dead on arrival?

Atlantic Council

The 5×5—The 2010s: A cyber decade in review

Atlantic Council

A post-Brexit agreement for research and innovation

Bruegel

A Year in Review: Azerbaijan Pursues Internal Reforms and External Multilateralism

AIR Center

Monday, 27 January 2020

Chinese Migrants Versus Ordinary Zambians: Causes of Tension and Possible Peace Pathways

Wilson Center

The Role of Agricultural Extension in Peacebuilding in the Central African Republic

Wilson Center

Nothing Wasted: The Waste-To-Energy Revolution in China

Wilson Center

Reservoirs in Parched Chennai, City of Millions, Are Dry. Can Better Forecasting Avert Future Crises?

Wilson Center

Innovative Sludge-to-Energy Plant Makes a Breakthrough in China

Wilson Center

Japan's North Korea Challenge in 2020

RAND Corporation

Innovating for improved healthcare: the current context and ways forward for quality and productivity in the NHS

RAND Corporation

Burden of Health Care Payments Is Greatest Among Americans with the Lowest Incomes

RAND Corporation

The Burden of Health Care Costs

RAND Corporation

Deterrence in the Age of Thinking Machines

RAND Corporation

Modern School-Choice Case Gives Chance to Expel Old Anti-Catholic Laws

Heritage Foundation

Pompeo’s Belarus and Ukraine Visits: Opportunities to Advance U.S. Interests

Heritage Foundation

Pompeo’s Visits Offer Opportunity to Advance U.S. Interests

Heritage Foundation

Where Will Iran Strike Back Against the U.S.?

Heritage Foundation

The Evening: Middle East Plan, Coronavirus, Zion Train and More

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

The CSIS Energy Program Announces New Name

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

U.S.-India Insight: Slowing Economy, Slowing Pace of Reforms

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Trading across the Pond

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Cybersecurity and the Problem of Interoperability

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Air Defence Command – A Bold Test Case

IDSA (Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)

China and the New Geopolitics of Technical Standardization

Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales)

‘Remember Iraq!’ Learning theory and the 2013 non-decision on air strikes against Syria

DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies)

Libya Country Report

CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)

The Political Economy of Entry Governance

CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)

ما يُمكن توقّعه من حكومة لبنانية جديدة: "مكافحة الفساد" كغطاء لحملة ضدّ المعارضين

Brookings

Computer science can help Africans develop skills of the future

Brookings

We know peace plans — this isn’t one of them

Brookings

Sharing the burden of the global refugee crisis

Brookings

The United States can take climate change seriously while leading the world in oil and gas production

Brookings

The Utter Ridiculousness of the U.S. Senate

Brookings

How to design a university: A conversation with Doug Becker of Cintana Education

Brookings

Innovation and the transatlantic productivity slowdown: A comparative analysis of R&D and patenting trends in Japan, Germany, and the United States

Brookings

We should be focusing on absenteeism among teachers, not just students

Brookings

Economic sanctions: Assessing their use and implications for U.S. foreign policy

Brookings

Can Bernie Sanders’s Foreign Policy Vision Lay Claim to FDR’s Mantle?

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

How the transatlantic trade agenda can get its groove back in 2020

Atlantic Council

Warring for the soul of the internet: Ten years on

Atlantic Council

The potential global impact of the coronavirus outbreak

Atlantic Council

Libra as a currency board: are the risks too great?

Bruegel

Sunday, 26 January 2020

Innovating for improved healthcare: Policy and practice for a thriving NHS

RAND Corporation

How can policy and practice support an innovating healthcare system?

RAND Corporation

Davos dispatch: Has China won?

Atlantic Council

مؤتمر برلين حول ليبيا: هل سيقوّض الرياءُ النتائج؟

Brookings

Saturday, 25 January 2020

WQ Winter 2020| The Power of Protest

Wilson Center

Soft power goes up in smoke

Lowy Institute

The Double Voting Problem

Heritage Foundation

Common Sense Winning on Fake "Service" Animals in Planes

Heritage Foundation

Africa in the news: UK-Africa Investment Summit, Turkey’s increased engagement, and Angola fraud scandal

Brookings

What to expect from a new Lebanese government: 'Anti-corruption' as witch hunt

Brookings

Friday, 24 January 2020

The Creative Community and Tools for Science

Wilson Center

How Korea Transformed the Cold War: Fearing the Worst

Wilson Center

Lithium Triangle Initiative Launch

Wilson Center

Foreign Policy is Hot Again — And Here's What That Could Mean For Your Future

Wilson Center

Mexico Pushes State Backed Training to Aid Unemployed, By Financial Times

Wilson Center

The Path to the Future of Work, Consumer Technology Association

Wilson Center

Hon. Lisa Raitt Named Woodrow Wilson Center Global Fellow of the Canada Institute

Wilson Center

Infographic | Above the Permafrost: Flows of Goods and People

Wilson Center

Kennan Director Matthew Rojansky on recent developments from Russia and Ukraine

Wilson Center

„Too small to fail“?

Konrad Adenauer Foundation

What Are the Potential Economic Implications of Prolonged UK–EU Trade Policy Uncertainty?

RAND Corporation

Evaluation of the SB 1041 Reforms to California's CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work Program: Updated Findings Regarding Policy Implementation and Outcomes

RAND Corporation

Payment for Services Rendered: Updating Medicare's Valuation of Procedures

RAND Corporation

Cyber Week in Review: January 24, 2020

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

The Organizational Landscape of Schools: School Employees' Conceptualizations of Organizations in Their Environment

RAND Corporation

Podcast: Yanzhong Huang on the Novel Coronavirus and China's Disease Control System

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

What Are Green Jobs?

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

SCOTUS 101: John Roberts Gets a New Job

Heritage Foundation

Why the Supreme Court Should Take This Major Religious Freedom Case

Heritage Foundation

Cambodia’s Democracy on Trial

Heritage Foundation

Worst of the Worst: Five All-Time Terrible War Films

Heritage Foundation

State Department Right to Tackle "Birth Tourism"

Heritage Foundation

Global Security Forum: Emerging Technologies Governance

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Current Military Operations and the Concept of Forever Wars

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Erdogan's Libyan Gambit

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

A Busy Year in the Caribbean: Elections

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Civil Society in the North Caucasus

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Time to Align on Digital Governance

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Signposts of Struggle: Iran’s Enduring Protest Movement

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

CO20017 | The Case of Imran Kassim: What Does It Tell Us?

RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)

Automation of Kill Cycle: On the Verge of Conceptual Changeover

IDSA (Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)

Climate Activism and the Fridays for Future Movement

IAI (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

Challenges and opportunities for Africa’s next decade

Brookings

Study finds strong continuing support for South Dakota’s capping consumer loan rates at 36% interest

Brookings

How to hasten the energy transition in the developing world

Brookings

Mecanismos utilizados por las comunidades para hacer que la vivienda sea asequible para las familias de ingresos medios

Brookings

Charts of the Week: Middle class income and wages

Brookings

Climate threats and climate justice: Action and adaptation for sustainable development

Brookings

President Trump is hiding the modern-day Nixon tapes

Brookings

Why the ICJ Is Trying to Protect Myanmar’s Rohingya

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

A European anti-money laundering supervisor: From vision to legislation

Bruegel

Thursday, 23 January 2020

The Near-Instant Death of the Russian Constitution

Wilson Center

Мгновенная смерть Конституции России

Wilson Center

The Need for an Integrated Approach in South Africa’s Land Ownership Deliberations

Wilson Center

Trading Views: Bonus History Episode

Wilson Center

Trading Views: Going From NAFTA To USMCA

Wilson Center

Trading Views: A Growing Industry

Wilson Center

It’s Time We Think Beyond “Threat Multiplier” to Address Climate and Security

Wilson Center

Fast and Furious: China's rise in the Middle East and North Africa

Konrad Adenauer Foundation

General and Flag Officer Costs: Annual Cost Estimates for General and Flag Officers and Supporting Personnel

RAND Corporation

World Economic Update

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

Migrant Caravan Confrontation, China’s Border-Crossing Virus, and More

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

Schumer and Schiff Are Wrong: Impeachment Is Not Congressional "Oversight"

Heritage Foundation

Impeachment Trial Rules—Top Takeaways From Day 1

Heritage Foundation

Attorneys General Warn Impeaching Trump Will Have Long-Term Consequences

Heritage Foundation

The Lethal Legal Legacy of Roe v. Wade

Heritage Foundation

5 Key Exchanges From the Supreme Court in Religious School Case

Heritage Foundation

7 Movies That Try to Explain Iran and the Middle East

Heritage Foundation

The Phase 1 Deal with China is Signed So Why Are We Still Paying Tariffs?

Heritage Foundation

Is America on the Decline and Ceding Its Position to China in Asia?

Heritage Foundation

India and the Philippines: A New Chapter in Defense Ties?

Heritage Foundation

The Suleimani Strike: The Right Call to Make

Heritage Foundation

Marine and coastal EbA for enhanced resilience in Southern Africa country review: Tanzania

SAIIA (South African Institute of International Affairs)

The Evening: Middle East, Afghanistan, Lively Up Yourself and More

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Global Economic Outlook

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Hope for the Climate

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Twin Pillars: Upholding National Security and National Innovation in Emerging Technologies Governance

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Juan Guaidó’s First Year in Office

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Getting to Less? The Innovation Superiority Strategy

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Afghanistan: “Peace” as the Vietnamization of a U.S. Withdrawal?

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Getting to Less? The Innovation Superiority Strategy

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

CO20015 | The Medan Suicide Attack: Enablers of Radicalism

RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)

CO20016 | ASEAN Outlook on Indo-Pacific: Seizing the Narrative?

RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)

Italy: Between the Euro-Atlantic Alliance and the Pull of Chinese Money

IAI (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

A Geopolitical Commission in Africa

IAI (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

Sanctions and the End of Trans-Atlanticism. Iran, Russia, and the Unintended Division of the West

Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales)

Europe in the Face of US-China Rivalry

Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales)

Europe in the Face of US-China Rivalry

Clingendael

Ukraine Country Report

CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)

Putin’s Proposal to Modify the Russian Constitution

DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations)

Georgia's 1332 waiver violates the ACA and cannot lawfully be approved

Brookings

Why peace initiatives in Libya are failing

Brookings

Closing the gender gap in African labor markets is good economics

Brookings

Incorporating macroprudential financial regulation into monetary policy

Brookings

How investments in innovation districts can combat the country’s regional divides

Brookings

Scaling quality education calls for scaling effective teacher professional development

Brookings

Hutchins Roundup: Occupational licenses, monetary policy's long-term effects, and more

Brookings

Figure of the week: Patent policies and their effects on African innovation

Brookings

The West must reassess its record on foreign intervention

Brookings

To Prove Trump’s Bad Faith, Don’t Argue Policy. Show He Subverted the Process.

Brookings

How has global trade policy shifted over the past 3 years?

Brookings

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – January 2020

Brookings

Explaining the inflation puzzle

Brookings

Don’t gut the US-South Korea alliance

Brookings

¿Cómo enfrentarse a la crisis de los opioides?

Brookings

What to expect in US-North Korea relations in 2020

Brookings

Is bipartisan US support for Ukraine at risk?

Brookings

Implicancia de las propuestas de los candidatos presidenciales de 2020 en materia de seguros de salud

Brookings

Risks and Reward: The Outlook for ASEAN in 2020

SIIA (Singapore Institute of International Affairs)

What Is a Moral Foreign Policy?

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

A year in, the United States still stands behind Venezuela’s interim government

Atlantic Council

Burkina Faso: Facing The Fastest Growing Crisis in West Africa

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

Book Review: “Nine Lives: Episodes in an Australian Foreign Service Career” by Richard Gate

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

On Protests And Internet Suspension in Assam - A Look at India’s Digital Tactics in Suppressing Dissent

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

How could net balances change in the next EU budget?

Bruegel

Do AI markets create competition policy concerns?

Bruegel

Uzbekistan’s New Parliament: Real Reform or Just the Will of the ‘President’s Men’?

Al Jazeera Centre for Studies

Wednesday, 22 January 2020

China Update: Taiwan’s Election and the “Phase One” Trade Deal

Wilson Center

CODE BLUE: The Importance of Integrating Care for Maternal Health and Non-Communicable Disease

Wilson Center

China’s Risky Gamble on Coal Conversion

Wilson Center

Where Do the Plastic Miners Go When the “Mine” Disappears?

Wilson Center

Africa: Year in Review 2019

Wilson Center

Bosnia and Herzegovina – a special country

Konrad Adenauer Foundation

The Politics of Man-Hunting and the Illusion of Victory

RAND Corporation

Military Build-Up in the South China Sea

RAND Corporation

Medicare Surgical Payments Should Be Updated to Reflect Postoperative Care That Is Actually Provided

RAND Corporation

As Wuhan virus spreads, Taiwan has no say at WHO

Lowy Institute

The Coronavirus Outbreak, With Tom Bollyky and Yanzhong Huang

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

The "Equal Rights Amendment" Virginia Just Ratified Is a Legal Fiction

Heritage Foundation

Liberals Keep Using the Word “Impartiality,” but It May Not Mean What They Think

Heritage Foundation

Repealing Both Iraq War Authorizations Is Needed to Rein In Presidents

Heritage Foundation

Arctic Security: Not About Preparing for War, But About Preparing for the Future

Heritage Foundation

Sacrificing Public and Private Health Insurance for “Medicare for All”

Heritage Foundation

It’s Time for SCOTUS to End Anti-Religious Prejudice in This School Choice Case

Heritage Foundation

The Challenges Ahead for EU Defense Cooperation

German Marshall Fund

The Evening: Davos, U.S. Troops. Stand Back and More

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Impact Player: Ri Son-gwon

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

The Eminent Fred Hochberg

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

U.S-China Trade Deal: Phase One

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Trade Trilateral Targets China's Industrial Subsidies

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Challenging Authority in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Does the Phase One China Deal Measure Up? Depends on How You Measure

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

An Alternative to the Defense Department’s New, Technology-Focused Organizations

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Impact Player: Ri Son-gwon

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

CO20014 | China’s Response to Coronavirus Outbreak: Implications for ASEAN

RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)

Assessing the Effectiveness of the United Nations Mission in Mali

NUPI (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)

[ADRN Issue Briefing] Existential Threats and Democracy: 2020 Taiwan Presidential Election

East Asia Institute

Tunisia is the sick man of North Africa

CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)

CIDOB Briefings 'War and Peace in the 21st Century 2020: A World of Two or Three? The US, China and the EU in a New Global Order'

CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)

Russia at the United Nations: Law, Sovereignty, and Legitimacy

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The case for AI transparency requirements

Brookings

20 years after Clinton’s pathbreaking trip to India, Trump contemplates one of his own

Brookings

The race problem in economics

Brookings

Inequalities in human development in the 21st century

Brookings

Productivity comparisons: Lessons from Japan, the United States, and Germany

Brookings

Competition policy expert Bill Baer joining Brookings

Brookings

Disrupting the international order

Brookings

FinTech Everywhere, but in Different Contexts

KIEP (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)

Europe to take center stage in global trade talks

Atlantic Council

ADMM-Plus Exercises: A Platform for Power Competition?

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

The Philippines: How Can States Engage Responsibly in Conflict-Related Support?

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

Can the International Community Really Count on the USA or China for International Trade?

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

Incorporating political risks into debt sustainability analysis

Bruegel

Brookings

118.8

CSIS

111.6

CFR

102.3

Atlantic Council

98.5

Wilson Center

86.5

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