The Rand Corporation as an Exemplar: The Origins of and Increasingly Important Role of Strategic Think

2015 ◽  
pp. 185-196
Keyword(s):  
Rand Corporation

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THINK TANKS IN THE U.S. IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE POLITICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC CONTEXT

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Iana V. Shchetinskaia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Rand Corporation ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Crises ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Government ◽  
The U.S

Research institutions and specifically think tanks have existed and developed in the United States for more than 100 years. Since their inception, they have changed and evolved in many ways, while expanding their research foci and political impact. Since the 2010s, a few experts in the field have observed that the U.S. policy expertise is now in crisis. To understand current challenges of policy analysis institutions it is important to study them in a historical retrospective. This article explores the political and socioeconomic contexts in which think tanks emerged and developed from 1910 to the 1950-s. It particularly examines the role of international crises, as well as domestic political factors, such as the role of philanthropy organizations, institutional changes in the government, and others. It discusses how these domestic and foreign policy aspects affected the early development of the Carnegie Endowment for the International Peace (1910), the Council on Foreign Relations (1921) and the RAND Corporation (1948).

scholarly journals Colonial experience and the theory of counter-guerrilla warfare in the USA: a source study of materials from the RAND Corporation in the first half of the 1960s

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-208
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Nesterov
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
Rand Corporation ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War

This paper analyzes materials of the RAND Corporation of the first half of the 1960s, devoted to the study of the colonial experience of European empires and the theory of counter-guerrilla warfare. The entire set of documents created by the RAND Corporation allows researchers, firstly, to analyze the intellectual resource available to the American establishment before the invasion of Vietnam, and to understand the causes of the mistakes and successes of the US armed forces in this region, and secondly, these materials allow to analyze the role of colonial and anthropological knowledge in US foreign policy during the Cold War. The sources considered by us in the paper can be classified both by their typology and by their subject matter: from the point of view of typology, RAND Corporations materials are divided into articles, memoranda and symposia materials, as well as from the point of view of subjects on the research of the war for Algeria, the Malay Company, counter-guerrilla warfare in Vietnam and general theoretical issues related to counter-insurgency operations. In the conclusion of the paper the author says about the great role of these sources in the study, both colonial experience and the theory of counter-guerrilla warfare, as well as military, political, social and economic, thus contributing to the interdisciplinarity of scientific papers.

scholarly journals Book review of 'Truth Decay. An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life' by Jennifer Kavanagh and Michael D. Rich, RAND Corporation, 2017, 324 p.

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Cătălina Nastasiu
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Rand Corporation ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Initial Exploration

Significant developments that occurred in the past two decades in the media and information system, such as the rise of the internet and social media or even the commentary based journalism that adopted a 24-hour coverage, led to a continuously rising process of creating, disseminating and consuming information. Nevertheless, the enormous amount of information that crosses the public space is not always supported by factual information, data, analysis or statistical representations. In fact, this large volume of information circulating in the public sphere is rather based on personal interpretation, misleading content, false assumptions or intentionally manipulated stories. Jennifer Kavanagh and Michael D. Rich, authors of the complex exploratory research called Truth Decay. An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life argue in favor of the term ”Truth Decay” to define the current changes of political and civil discourse in the U.S.

scholarly journals Warfare against terrorism and colonial experience of European powers in the expert opinions of RAND Corporation

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Nesterov
Keyword(s):  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Third World ◽  
Rand Corporation ◽  
Domestic Security ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Asymmetric Conflicts ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
The Subject

The subject of this research is the expert opinions of RAND Corporation prepared during the warfare against terrorism. Their characteristic feature consists in reference to the colonial experience of the leading European powers in counter-insurgency. Special attention is given to the analysis of two vectors in the activity RAND Corporation: publication of the articles of 1960s-1970s dedicated to the problems of anti-insurrection and adaptation of the colonial experience of counter-insurgency activity to the new conditions of warfare against terrorism in the Near and Middle East. The selected methodology demonstrates how the leading powers perceive the role of colonial knowledge in ensuring domestic security in the “third world” countries (it refers to the lessons of history analyzed on the expert level within the framework of historical modeling of asymmetric conflicts). The conclusion is made that the expert opinions of RAND Corporation virtually resemble the key expert opinions of the time of Vietnam War, but adjusted them to the current conditions of warfare against terrorism. The aforementioned works were rather used for justification of the decisions of political and military elites, and clarification of the context and origins of the new American anti-insurrection doctrine to mainstream audience, as well as to the U. S. officials and commanders inexperienced in subjection of the rebels.

Teaching Policy Evaluation

1982 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Stuart S. Nagel
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Rand Corporation ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Course Content

An instructor needs to resolve several issues in teaching a course on policy evaluation. Those issues include matters of course content such as what books to use, what evaluation methods to present, the role of statistical analysis in determining relations, the role of legal analysis in determining values, the role of political and administrative feasibility, and how to combine policy analysis and program evaluation.Back in 1958, the economist Roland McKean, working for the Rand Corporation, wrote a book entitled Efficiency in Government Through Systems Analysis: With Emphasis on Water Resources Development (Wiley, 1958). That may have been the first book that attempted to provide a survey, of methods involved in systematically evaluating alternative public policies, although only the first 100 pages are general in nature.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor

Role of the allergist in diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre
Keyword(s):  
Diagnosis And Management

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

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