Can ‘Citizen Science’ Save Vietnam’s Environment From Unchecked Economic Growth?
…shift not just in how the media is being used but also in the actual content, with hard data being supplemented by anecdote and narrative—for example, in the form of…
Changing the Way America Counts the Trade Deficit?
…U.S. as products of China even though their actual Chinese content is de minimis. If we instead counted all the products from China on the basis of where their actual…
Keys to Developing a More Efficient, Effective Defense at Lower Cost
…2019. https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Defense-Savings-Options_20190515.pdf 32 “Department of Defense Infrastructure Capacity.” Department of Defense. October 2017. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/101717_DoD_BRAC_Analysis.pdf 33 “Military Base Realignments and Closures: Updated Costs and Savings Estimates from BRAC 2005.” United States…
China’s Evolving Strategic Discourse on India
…the Pacific or the Indian Ocean that would quickly disappear.14 Note: “Foreign Minister Wang Yi Meets the Press,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, March 9,…
Normalizing China’s Relations with the Paris Club
…a request from a debtor country to the Paris Club Secretariat within the Finance Ministry of France. Such requests generally follow informal conversations between the Secretariat and the lead ministry…
Pulwama/Balakot and The Evolving Role of Third Parties in India-Pakistan Crises
…DC: Stimson Centre, 2006). Accessed August 15, 2019. https://www.stimson.org/wp-content/files/file-attachments/Twin_Peaks_Crisis.pdf . For details on Mumbai attacks 2008 see Polly Nayak and Michael Krepon, The Unfinished Crisis: US Crisis Management after the…
Heading Off Armed Conflict and War
…is projected to remain meager into the near future. 2At present, DoD’s Minerva Research Initiative, which “supports social science research aimed at improving basic understanding of security, broadly defined,” is…
23 Years of Nonuse
…of India,” November 8, 2010, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/11/08/joint-statement-president-obama-and-prime-minister-singh-india. Indian diplomacy has also consistently advocated for a global “no first use” norm, though, as discussed further below, the Indian no-first-use commitment has come…