Chinese Village, Global Market: New Collectives and Rural Development: China in Transformation
This book is a story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation.
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Obama's Message of Tough Love
President Obama's remarks Monday on Hurricane Sandy were in some ways the most significant of his presidency.
Assessing Uncertainty in Intelligence
This article addresses the challenge of managing uncertainty when producing estimative intelligence.
US View of Cuba is Stuck in the 1960s
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended 50 years ago Sunday.
It’s Easy Being King
In popular culture, stress and leadership go hand in hand.
Science and the Civic Duty
The conviction of seven Italian geological and disaster experts for their negligence in failing to predict the 6.3 magnitude quake in 2009 in the small town of Aquila has shocked the scientific commun
Brief of Robert L. Bordick, Joseph Bowring, James Bushnell, and 18 Other Leading Economists as Amici Curiae in Support of the Petitioners
Electricity Power Supply Association, et al., v. FERC, et al.
Romney’s Shift on Foreign Policy Creates Confusion
We have two impressive people running for president. I fully realize that is not a judgment universally shared in our polarized, partisan, red-blue divided nation.
Poor Infrastructure Is Africa's Soft Underbelly
In one of Africa’s most ambitious investment decisions, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has unveiled a plan to spend $97 billion on infrastructure over the next three years to upgrade roads, ports
Advice To The Next President: Foreign Policy
With the Iraq War recently ended, the Afghanistan War winding down, and a standoff over Iran’s nuclear program raising the prospect of a third U.S.
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