This report is a digest of the proceedings of a conference hosted by The RAND Corporation, December 5-6, 1985, to consider possible international economic developments during the next ten years. Participants tried to identify potentially "surprising" developments--developments the probability or consequences of which are insufficiently recognized today. They discussed major potential "surprises" in the following areas: (1) international financial markets and capital flows; (2) international trade patterns and the international trading regime; (3) macroeconomic conditions and policies; (4) energy and agriculture; (5) population, immigration, and labor; (6) threats to the commercial order; (7) geopolitical developments; and (8) national sovereignty and the significance of national borders. Participants agreed that no forecasting technique would completely prevent "surprises," and that policy must be formulated so as to be robust in the face of changing circumstances. The report describes some of the more striking possible future developments identified during conference discussions."--Rand Abstracts.
Evaluates the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program, which uses biometrically validated records to track the movements of immigrants and visitors entering and exiting the United States.
In 1995, RAND published a book exploring the feasibility and societal implications of providing universal access to electronic mail within the United States (Robert H. Anderson et al., Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications). Among the nine policy conclusions and recommendations in that report were these: It is critical that electronic mail be a basic service in a national information infrastructure; it is important to reduce the increasing gaps in access to basic electronic information services, specifically, access to electronic mail services; there are no fundamental technical barriers to providing universal access to electronic mail services. This book explores the possibility for expanded citizen-government personalized electronic communication. Of particular interest are interactions between government agencies and individual citizens--interactions involving personal information, iterated communications between an individual and a government agency, and the use of a personal electronic mailbox for the individual. It provides an informal survey of current state uses of such communication, supplemented by two case studies of potential use. It also uses 1997 Current Population Survey data to update the electronic access trends in the United States that were highlighted in the 1995 study.
China's geopolitical ambitions and growing military capabilities and theSoutheast Asian states' perceptions of a rising China will play a crucial role in shaping the future of Southeast Asia and the U.S. military posture in the region. The authors examine the role of regional states in developing a hedge against the possible emergence of an overly aggressive China. They find that rather than confronting a conventional attack, theUnited States and the Southeast Asian countries are likely to find a continuation of China's creeping irredentism and ambiguous threats. Southeast Asia is likely to prove a critical testing ground for a third way of dealing with China's rising power--what in other RAND work has been called a policy of congagement--that seeks to integrate China into theinternational system while both deterring and preparing for a possible Chinese challenge.The report recommends that the United States adopt an incremental approach to this hedging strategy, focusing on peacetime military engagement with Southeast Asian states, development of a more robust and diversified network of access arrangements, and strengthened military ties with the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia,and Vietnam.
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