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- Statistical annex
- This annex contains data on some main economic series which are intended to provide a background to the recent economic developments in the OECD area described in the main body of this report. Data for 2007 to 2009 are OECD estimates and projections. The data on some of the tables...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Economic consequences of armaments production: institutional perspectives of J.K. Galbraith and T.B. Veblen
- Within the Institutionalist School, both the writings of John K. Galbraith (sometimes erroneously identified as a "real Keynesian") and Thorstein Veblen are of fundamental importance, although scarcely on a par (Parker 2005, 198; Stanfield 1996, 153-159). Both were prolific and popular writers, both were literary stylists, both held neoclassical economics...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- The law: unilaterally shaping U.S. national security policy: the role of National Security Directives.
- In recent times, some scholars have discussed a new way in which to view presidential power, one that considers the president's ability to effect policy change unilaterally without the consent of Congress or the courts. The limits of presidential power can still be defined essentially by the ability and willingness...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Foreword: settler's remorse.
- INTRODUCTION Who can quarrel with the notion that settling civil cases is generally a good thing? Litigation is expensive, time-consuming, preoccupying, and often personally destructive. Our courts ate overburdened and, in any event, imperfect decision-making entities. It may even be true that, more...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- The physics of spin: sputnik politics and American physicists in the 1950s
- NAZI RACE SCIENCE, STALINIST DENUNCIATIONS OF GENETICS: THE twentieth century provided no shortage of examples of the power of politics to corrupt science. Recoiling in horror from such perversions, many scholars argued with great fervor half a century ago that science was--or should be--inherently apolitical. Others insisted with equal vehemence...
- Research articles 2006-12-22
- Professor Gerschenkron goes to Brussels. Russian Catch-up Economics and the Common European Space1
- Abstract Ongoing discussions between Russia and the EU on the formation of a Common European Economic Space bring back to mind Alexander Gerschenkron's classic essay on economic backwardness in historical perspective. This paper argues that the institutions that once produced a specific kind of catch-up economics in Czarist Russia still...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Thinking about basing
- Recent U.S. experiences--1990-91 in the Persian Gulf, in Bosnia, Kosovo, and then in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003)--have highlighted the complexities and uncertainties of basing access in the post-Cold War period. They have involved questions of access to, and overhead transit rights for, a variety of nations: all over Europe,...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- Anglo-American strategic air power co-operation in the Cold War and beyond
- Editorial Abstract: Air power co-operation between the Royal Air Force and US Air Force serves as an excellent model of successful coalition relations and reflects the evolution of current concepts such as expeditionary air power and effects-based operations. The authors trace strategic air power relations between the United States and...
- Research articles 2004-12-22
- Reform and Development in China: A New Institutional Economics Perspective
- The success of China's approach to transition has produced many challenges to the conventional wisdom in economic theory. The transition in essence is a process of institutional changes from those of a planned economy to those of a market economy. In the paper we argue that the economic institutions of...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- A cognitive-psychodynamic perspective to understanding secretary of state Cyrus Vance's worldview.
- This article goes beyond traditional cognitive studies, many of which focus on the image of the enemy, by incorporating the role of "personality" in impression formation. Through the use of a cognitive-psychodynamic perspective, traditional categories in image studies are expanded to explain better Cyrus Vance's worldview during his tenure as...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- The structures of national security decision making: leadership, institutions, and politics in the Carter, Reagan, and G. H. W. Bush years.
- Virginia Commonwealth University Decision making for U.S. national security is not a static process. Presidents adjust their decision-making structures from time to time when they perceive that the standard interagency procedures no longer serve their political purposes. This article identifies a distinct pattern...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- Nuclear smuggling: patterns and responses
- "The most urgent unmet national security threat to the United States today is the danger that weapons of mass destruction or weapons-usable materials in Russia could be stolen and sold to terrorists or hostile nations and used against American troops abroad or citizens at home." --Secretary of Energy Advisory...
- Research articles 2003-03-22
- Oil and other primary commodity markets - Illustration
- Annex Table 20. Oil and other primary commodity markets 1987 ...
- Research articles 2002-12-01
- Signaling behavior, congressional-executive agreements, and the SALT I Interim agreement
- This Article, using a law and behavioral economics perspective, carves out a "signaling exception" to the general rule that Presidents must ratify national security accords as treaties and international trade accords as congressional-executive agreements. Under this signaling exception, the President can submit national security accords as congressional-executive agreements when 1)...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- How the United States used competition to win the Cold War
- ABSTRACT This paper looks at the end of the Cold War as the end of a monumental competition. Until 1981, the United States competed mainly on its own side of the playing field. It was a good defensive effort called containment, but it avoided taking the competition into the...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Oil and other primary commodity markets - Illustration - Statistical Data Included
- Annex Table 17 Oil and other primary commodity markets 1986 ...
- Research articles 2001-12-01
- Oil and other primary commodity markets - Statistical Data Included
- Annex Table 17. Oil and other primary commodity markets 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 ...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- AMERICA: NO STRANGER TO STAND-OFFS
- 1960 Gary Powers is shot down in a U2 spy plane over Russia and captured. He is sentenced to 10 years in a Moscow jail but freed after two when Eisenhower strikes a deal to exchange Russian spies captured in the US. The US lost valuable technology in the incident...
- Research articles 2001-04-08
- The Anthrax Terror DOD's Number-One Biological Threat
- Editorial Abstract: The chance that our armed forces will encounter biological weapons has increased dramatically since the dissolution of the USSR. Drs. Johnson-Winegar and Davis give us an in-depth tutorial on anthrax, the predominant bioweapon threat, and they provide clear rationale for our needing a viable vaccination defense. TODAY...
- Research articles 2000-12-22
- Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley. - Review - book review
- Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism, by Paul Hollander (Yale, 356 pp., $35) Paul Hollander, professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, is an astute observer of the gap between ideological belief and reality. His 1981 Political Pilgrims surveyed the writings of...
- Research articles 2000-11-06
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