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?
…years, however, some groups, notably Public Citizen, have argued that these items should not be counted as exports, presumably because they do not contain much American content (that, incidentally, is…
Keys to Developing a More Efficient, Effective Defense at Lower Cost
…Oversight. May 2019. https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Defense-Savings-Options_20190515.pdf Cutting Excess Basing Infrastructure – Estimated Savings: $3 – $5 billion per year. The Pentagon has said it has 19 percent excess basing capacity, meaning 19…
China’s Evolving Strategic Discourse on India
…induce India into cooperating, preferably by offering non-core economic incentives and concessions, while others advocate the Maoist philosophy of cooperation through struggle (以斗争求团结，则团结者存。以妥协求团结，则团结者亡). This philosophy essentially means that cooperation achieved…
Normalizing China’s Relations with the Paris Club
…lists six principles. Case-by-case means that each debtor country is treated separately. This principle was formalized in the 1970s when there were calls for generalized debt relief for developing countries…
Pulwama/Balakot and The Evolving Role of Third Parties in India-Pakistan Crises
…crisis manager in South Asia – possessing leverage over the primary parties, the necessary means and intelligence to anticipate the developing situation, and the political clout necessary to pressure both…
Heading Off Armed Conflict and War
…ways rather than others. This paradigm gained dominance during the Cold War as a means of formulating and evaluating domestic and foreign policy (Amadae 2003).4Although the rational actor framework became…
23 Years of Nonuse
…of anything meaningful, since in an actual crisis, because of the civil-military imbalance in Pakistani national security decision-making, the military and not the president would control the use of nuclear…