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A series of Occasional Papers, disseminating the work of Academy projects, is available online. To order a copy of an Occasional Paper ($6.00 ea. unless otherwise noted) click here, or e-mail publications@amacad.org. To view individual publications, select from their titles.

Occasional Papers are sorted by project areas:
Education
Global Security
Humanities & Culture
Science & Technology Policy
Social Policy & American Institutions

Education

Achieving Universal and Basic Secondary
                              Education Achieving Universal and Basic Secondary Education: How Much Will It Cost?
Paul Glewwe, Meng Zhao, and Melissa Binder (2006)
Consequences of Global Educational Expansion The Consequences of Global Educational Expansion: Social Science Perspectives
Emily Hannum and Claudia Buchmann (2003)
Teaching Evidence-Based Decision Making Education and a Civil Society: Teaching Evidence-Based Decision Making
Eamonn Callan, Tina Grotzer, Jerome Kagan, Richard E. Nisbett, David N. Perkins, and Lee S. Shulman (2009)
Education, Health,
                              and Development Education, Health, and Development
David E. Bloom (2007)
Evaluation
                        and the Academy Evaluation and the Academy: Are We Doing the Right Thing?
Henry Rosovsky and Matthew Hartley (2002)
Global Educational
                              Expansion Global Educational Expansion: Historical Legacies and Political Obstacles
Aaron Benavot, Julia Resnik, and Javier Corrales (2006)
Improving Education
                              Through Assessment, Innovation, and Evaluation Improving Education Through Assessment, Innovation, and Evaluation
Henry Braun, Anil Kanjee, Eric Bettinger, and Michael Kremer (2006)
Measuring Global
                              Educational Progress Measuring Global Educational Progress
David E. Bloom (2006)
Science and the Educated
                        American Science and the Educated American: A Core Component of Liberal Education
Jerrold Meinwald and John G. Hildebrand (2010)
Trends in American & German Higher Education Trends in American & German Higher Education / Executive Summary
Robert McC. Adams (2002)
Universal Basic
                        and Secondary Education Universal Basic and Secondary Education
Joel E. Cohen, David E. Bloom, Martin B. Malin, and Helen Anne Curry (2006)

Global Security     ^Top

The Back-End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: An Innovative Storage Concept The Back-End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: An Innovative Storage Concept
Stephen M. Goldberg, Robert Rosner, and James P. Malone (2012)
Beyond Technology:
                                                            Strengthening Energy Policy through Social Science Beyond Technology: Strengthening Energy Policy through Social Science
A Report of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2011)
The Case of
                        China The Case of China
Elizabeth Economy (1997)
The Case
                        of Indonesia The Case of Indonesia
Charles Victor Barber (1997)
Environmental Change and Violent Conflict Environmental Change and Violent Conflict
Thomas Homer-Dixon (1990)
Environmental Change as a Source of Conflict and Economic Losses in China Environmental Change as a Source of Conflict and Economic Losses in China Vaclav Smil; and Imminent Political Conflicts Arising from China's Environmental Crises Jack A. Goldstone (1992)
Science and the Educated
                        American A European Approach to Space Security
Xavier Pasco (2009)
The Future of Human Spaceflight The Future of Human Spaceflight: Objectives and Policy Implications in a Global Context
David A. Mindell, Scott A. Uebelhart, Asif A. Siddiqi, and Slava Gerovitch (2009)
War with Iraq:
                        Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives Game Changers for Nuclear Energy
Kate Marvel and Michael May (2011)
Global Transformations Global Transformations
James N. Rosenau, (1989) Out of Print
The Impact of the New Borderlands on the Russian Military The Impact of the New Borderlands on the Russian Military
Sherman W. Garnett (1995)
Lessons Learned Lessons Learned from “Lessons Learned”: The Evolution of Nuclear Power Safety after Accidents and Near-Accidents
Edward D. Blandford and Michael M. May (2012)
Middle East Security: Two Views Middle East Security: Two Views
Ahmad S. Khalidi and Yair Evron (1990)
multinational Approaches
                        to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Multinational Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Charles McCombie, Thomas Isaacs, Noramly Bin Muslim, Tariq Rauf, Atsuyuki Suzuki, Frank von Hippel, and Ellen Tauscher (2010)
Negotiating the Non-Negotiable: Jerusalem in the Framework of an Israeli-Palestinian
                              Settlement Negotiating the Non-Negotiable: Jerusalem in the Framework of an Israeli-Palestinian Settlement
Naomi Chazan with commentary by Fouad Moughrabi and Rashid I. Khalidi (1991)
LBJ
                        and the Vietnam/Great Society Connection No Good Choices: LBJ and the Vietnam/Great Society Connection
Francis M. Bator (2007)
Nuclear Collisions: 
Discord, Reform & the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime Nuclear Collisions: Discord, Reform & the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
Steven E. Miller, Wael Al-Assad, Jayantha Dhanapala, C. Raja Mohan,
and Ta Minh Tuan (2012)
Nuclear Reactors: Generation
                        to Generation Nuclear Reactors: Generation to Generation
Stephen M. Goldberg and Robert Rosner (2011)
Nuclear Weapons and International Systemic Stability Nuclear Weapons and International Systemic Stability: A Preliminary Methodological Inquiry
John Lewis Gaddis (1990) Out of Print
The Palestinian Right of Return: Two Views The Palestinian Right of Return: Two Views
ZRashid I. Khalidi and Itamar Rabinovich (1990)
The Case for a Volunteer UN Military Force Peace Operations by the United Nations: The Case for a Volunteer UN Military Force
Carl Kaysen and George Rathjens (1996)
The Physics
                        of Space Security The Physics of Space Security: A Reference Manual
David Wright, Laura Grego, and Lisbeth Gronlund ($15.00) (2005)
China’s
                        Space Program, 1956–2003 A Place for One’s Mat: China’s Space Program, 1956–2003
Gregory Kulacki and Jeffrey G. Lewis (2009)
Designing U.S. Policy toward Russia The Policy World Meets Academia: Designing U.S. Policy toward Russia
Timothy Colton, Timothy Frye, and Robert Legvold (2010)
Pressure Points: Environmental Degradation, Migration and Conflict Pressure Points: Environmental Degradation, Migration and Conflict Astri Suhrke; and “Bangladesh and Assam: Land Pressures, Migration and Ethnic Conflict Sanjoy Hazarika (1993)
Verification and Conventional Arms Reduction Verification and Conventional Arms Reduction
Jürgen Altmann, Péter Déak, Catherine Kelleher, and Vadim Makarevsky (1990)
Water and Conflict Water and Conflict Peter H. Gleick (1992) Out of Print; and West Bank Water Resources and the Resolution of Conflict in the Middle East Miriam R. Lowi (1992)
The Physics
                        of Space Security Reconsidering the Rules for Space Security
Nancy Gallagher and John D. Steinbruner (2008)
Russian and Chinese Responses
                        to U.S. Military Plans in Space Russian and Chinese Responses to U.S. Military Plans in Space
Pavel Podvig and Hui Zhang (2008)
The Saladin Syndrome: Lessons from the Gulf War The Saladin Syndrome: Lessons from the Gulf War
Ze'ev Schiff and Walid Khalidi (1991)
Science and the Educated
                        American Science and the Educated American: A Core Component of Liberal Education
Jerrold Meinwald and John G. Hildebrand (2010)
Shared Responsibilities
                        for Nuclear Disarmament Shared Responsibilities for Nuclear Disarmament: A Global Debate
Scott D. Sagan. Responses: James M. Acton, Jayantha Dhanapala, Mustafa Kibaroglu, Harald Müller, Yukio Satoh, Mohamed I. Shaker, and Achilles Zaluar (2010)
The Significance
                        of Joint Missile Surveillance The Significance of Joint Missile Surveillance
John Steinbruner (2001)
United
                        States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities United States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
George Abbey and Neal Lane (2005)
United States Space Policy:
                        Challenges and Opportunities Gone Astray United States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities Gone Astray
George Abbey and Neal Lane (2009)
The US and the International
                        Criminal Court The US and the International Criminal Court: The Choices Ahead
Sarah Sewall and Carl Kaysen (1999)
Using Imaging to Identify Deceit Using Imaging to Identify Deceit: Scientific and Ethical Questions
Emilio Bizzi, Steven E. Hyman, Marcus E. Raichle, Nancy Kanwisher, Elizabeth A. Phelps, Stephen J. Morse, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jed S. Rakoff, and Henry T. Greely (2009)
War with Iraq:
                        Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives
Carl Kaysen, Steven E. Miller, Martin B. Malin, William D. Nordhaus, and John D. Steinbruner (2002)

Humanities & Culture     ^Top

Making the Humanities Count: The Importance of Data Making the Humanities Count: The Importance of Data / Press Release
Robert M. Solow Phyllis Franklin, Calvin C. Jones, John D’Arms, and Francis Oakley (2002)
Tracking Changes in the Humanities Tracking Changes in the Humanities
James C. Hearn, Alexander V. Gorbunov, Donald C. Summers, Edward P. St. John, Ontario S. Wooden, Patricia J. Gumport, and John D. Jennings (2005)

Science & Technology Policy     ^Top

Beyond Technology:
                                                            Strengthening Energy Policy through Social Science The Back-End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: An Innovative Storage Concept
Stephen M. Goldberg, Robert Rosner, and James P. Malone (2012)
Beyond Technology:
                                                            Strengthening Energy Policy through Social Science Beyond Technology: Strengthening Energy Policy through Social Science
A Report of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2011)
Do Scientists
                        Understand the Public? Do Scientists Understand the Public?
Chris Mooney (2010)
The Future of Human Spaceflight The Future of Human Spaceflight: Objectives and Policy Implications in a Global Context
David A. Mindell, Scott A. Uebelhart, Asif A. Siddiqi, and Slava Gerovitch (2009)
Lessons Learned Lessons Learned from “Lessons Learned”: The Evolution of Nuclear Power Safety after Accidents and Near-Accidents
Edward D. Blandford and Michael M. May (2012)
TNuclear Reactors: Generation
                              to Generation Nuclear Reactors: Generation to Generation
Stephen M. Goldberg and Robert Rosner (2011)
The Physics
                              of Space Security The Physics of Space Security: A Reference Manual ($15.00)
David Wright, Laura Grego, and Lisbeth Gronlund (2005)
Probing Human Origins Probing Human Origins / Press Release / Executive Summary
Edited by Morris Goodman and Anne Simon Moffat (2002)
Science and the Educated
                        American Science and the Educated American: A Core Component of Liberal Education
Edited by Jerrold Meinwald and John G. Hildebrand (2010)
Science and the Media Science and the Media
Edited by Donald Kennedy and Geneva Overholser (2010)
Out of Print
United
                        States Space Policy United States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
George Abbey and Neal Lane (2005)
United
                        States Space Policy United States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities Gone Astray
George Abbey and Neal Lane (2009)
Using Imaging to Identify Deceit Using Imaging to Identify Deceit: Scientific and Ethical Questions
Emilio Bizzi, Steven E. Hyman, Marcus E. Raichle, Nancy Kanwisher, Elizabeth A. Phelps, Stephen J. Morse, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jed S. Rakoff, and Henry T. Greely (2009)

Social Policy & American Institutions     ^Top

Challenges to Business Challenges to Business in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Gerald Rosenfeld, Jay W. Lorsch, and Rakesh Khurana (2011)
LBJ
                        and the Vietnam/Great Society Connection No Good Choices: LBJ and the Vietnam/Great Society Connection
Francis M. Bator (2007)
Using Imaging to Identify Deceit Using Imaging to Identify Deceit: Scientific and Ethical Questions
Emilio Bizzi, Steven E. Hyman, Marcus E. Raichle, Nancy Kanwisher, Elizabeth A. Phelps, Stephen J. Morse, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jed S. Rakoff, and Henry T. Greely (2009)

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