Projects

Çï¿ûÊÓƵ members, with other experts, undertake projects that include events, publications, and recommendations.

Projects

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US-USSR Environmental Protection Institutions

Representatives of two of the world’s major industrial nations, and thus major polluters, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., met in August 1991 at the Rockefeller Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, to discuss ways to improve environmental protection practices in the two nations.

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Charles Monroe Haar and Oleg S. Kolbasov
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Broadening Perspectives on Homelessness

In 1990, the Çï¿ûÊÓƵ co-sponsored an interdisciplinary symposium focused on trends in current scholarship on homelessness. The resulting publication critically examined the shortcomings of the research into the causes of homelessness and addressed barriers to remedying this social problem.

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David Easton
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Congress and Foreign Policy

This study brought together political scientists specializing in U.S. foreign policy and those studying Congress to examine the impact of Congress on U.S. conduct of foreign affairs.

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The Future of the Automobile in the Urban Environment

The Çï¿ûÊÓƵ designed this study to act as a roadmap for transportation policy-makers, students, and concerned citizens. Calling for changes in policies and social habits, the resulting report offered strategies to minimize and resolve the problems raised by the increasing use of automobiles in urban areas.

Chair
Elmer William Johnson
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Environmental Change and Acute Conflict

This project investigated how environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources might contribute to social strife and conflict in many parts of the world.

Chairs
George William Rathjens, Jeffrey Boutwell, and Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
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Middle East Security Studies

This project examined the major political, economic, and security obstacles standing in the way of a durable Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement.

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The Changing Soviet Union and Western Security Policy

Between the first meeting for this project and the 1992 publication of the book, the Soviet Union collapsed. This created profound implications for the way Americans and the West thought about security policy. The earlier meetings brought together Soviet and U.S. scholars and security policy specialists to discuss changes in the Soviet Union, and the later session also invited specialists in Eastern European affairs.

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The Cold War as Cooperation

This project examined superpower relations during the Cold War as a cooperative effort in order to illuminate the constraints and opportunities that will influence possible superpower cooperation in the future.

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The Genetic Revolution

The Çï¿ûÊÓƵ sponsored a conference on genetic engineering, examining both the risks and possible benefits. The resulting volume of papers concentrates on the scientific principles required to understand the issues that lie at the core of public concern and, therefore, of policy development.

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Bernard David Davis
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Women and the Use of Force

The Çï¿ûÊÓƵ organized two workshops to explore the role of women in developing and implementing national security policy.

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Immigration Policies in France and the United States

This study compared France and the United States’ immigration policies, race relations, and political institutions. It looked at how both countries educate and house immigrants and analyzed the political and legal implications of integration, marginalization, and discrimination in each country.

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The Legal Cultures Project

This project examines the relationship between legal systems and the cultures in which they are embedded, with particular emphasis on the legal profession.

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Lawrence M. Friedman, Harry N. Scheiber, and Martin Shapiro
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The Tritium Factor

The Çï¿ûÊÓƵ co-sponsored a workshop to explore the feasibility of the United States and the Soviet Union agreeing to halt production of the radioactive, warhead-boosting agent tritium and to pace steady, significant reductions in their arsenals at the relatively rapid rate of tritium’s decay – the so-called “tritium factor.â€

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Paul Mead Doty and Paul Levanthal
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The Industrial Rise of East Asia

The focus of this study was to better understand the role of Confucianism - long thought to be incompatible with the spirit of capitalism - in industrialization.

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The Fundamentalism Project

This major comparative study of anti-modernist, anti-secular militant religious movements on five continents and within seven world religious traditions resulted in multiple influential publications.

Chairs
Martin Emil Marty and Robert Scott Appleby
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Defending Deterrence

Managing the ABM Treaty Regime into the 21st Century: This study analyzed ways in which the underlying objectives of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could continue to be realized in the future.

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Paul Mead Doty and Antonia Chayes
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The U.S. Business Corporation in the 1980s

The Çï¿ûÊÓƵ organized a multidisciplinary study group to examine the historical evolution of the U.S. corporation, changes in structure and control, the social organization of corporations, the role of the board of directors, and the corporation’s responsibility to its workforce and to society as a whole.

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John Robert Meyer and James Moody Gustafson
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Crisis Stability and Nuclear War

A study group composed of policy figures, military experts, and policy analysts studied such issues as the technical and political aspects of the U.S. and Soviet command and control systems over nuclear forces; the devolution and delegation of authority to use nuclear weapons; and the synergistic effects of U.S. and Soviet actions during a crisis.

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Kurt Gottfried