This policy brief examines the rejuvenation, current state, and future prospects of the Chinese defense economy. Fifteen years of reforms have turned this once lumbering holdout of autarkic central planning into an aspiring champion of technological innovation. Critical factors...

This policy brief examines how innovation takes place within the Chinese defense research, development, and acquisition (RDA) system. This begins with a short review of the evolving frameworks of analysis of technological innovation in industrial systems, with prominence given to the...

It is in the best interests of the United States to use its influence among Nile Basin states to encourage the development of Nile waters as a whole, rather than only for its principal and most pow-erful user.

This paper reviews the achievements of Middle East environmental diplomacy under the multilateral track and lays out a feasible program to build on these achievements. It argues that negotiations should be informed by three lessons from the history of international water diplomacy. These are: 1)...

The North Korean economic decline in the 1990s reveals a complex food and energy shortage problem. Inadequate energy supplies are an immediate cause of this agricultural collapse, and the energy shortage must be resolved in order to reach a sustainable recovery. Hayes, Von Hippel and Williams...

One aftermath of the Madrid Peace Conference was establishment of a multilateral track (the “multilateralsâ€) by the United States designed to address issues of region-wide concern, such as arms control and regional security, economic development, water, the environment, and refugees....