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A new series of Occasional Papers, disseminating the work of Academy projects, is now available online in Adobe PDF format. If you are unable to open the file, please download a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader (Windows or Macintosh version).

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"Reconsidering the Rules for Space Security"

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Occasional Paper (PDF)

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"Russian and Chinese Responses to U.S. Military Plans in Space"

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Occasional Paper (PDF)

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"Universal Basic and Secondary Education"

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Occasional Paper (PDF)

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"Education, Health, and Development"

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Occasional Paper (PDF)

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"No Good Choices: LBJ and the Vietnam/Great Society Connection"

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Occasional Paper (PDF)

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"Global Educational Expansion: Historical Legacies and Political Obstacles"

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Occasional Paper (PDF)

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"Achieving Universal and Basic Secondary Education: How Much Will It Cost?"

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Occasional Paper (PDF)

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"Improving Education Through Assessment, Innovation, and Evaluation"

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Occasional Paper (PDF)

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"Measuring Global Educational Progress"

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Occasional Paper (PDF)

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"Tracking Changes in the Humanities"

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Occasional Paper (PDF)

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“United States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities ”

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Press Release
Occasional Paper (PDF)

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“The Physics of Space Security: A Reference Manual”

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Occasional Paper (PDF)

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“The Consequences of Global Educational Expansion: Social Science Perspectives”

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Occasional Paper (PDF)

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“War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives”

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A December 2002 report, published under the auspices of the Academy’s Committee on International Security Studies (CISS), finds that the political, military, and economic consequences of war with Iraq could be extremely costly to the United States. William D. Nordhaus (Yale University) estimates the economic costs of war with Iraq in scenarios that are both favorable and unfavorable to the United States. Steven E. Miller (Harvard University) considers a number of potentially disastrous military and strategic outcomes of war for the United States that have received scant public attention. Carl Kaysen (MIT), John D. Steinbruner (University of Maryland),and Martin B. Malin (American Academy) examine the broader national security strategy behind the move toward a preventive war against Iraq.

Press Release (PDF)
Occasional Paper (PDF)
Related Articles:
- After the Fall: An Inside Look at the Bush Team's Plan to Run Iraq once Saddam is Gone (U.S. News and World Report, December 2, 2002)
- Study: Iraq War Could Cost $1.9 Trillion: War With Iraq Could Cost U.S. As Much As $2 Trillion Over Decade, Researchers Estimate (ABC News , December 6, 2002)
- Study: Iraq War Could Cost $1.9 Trillion
  (The Guardian, December 6)
- 'Everything Has Been Destroyed,' Iraq Insists (The Globe and Mail, December 6, 2002)
- Like John Lennon, All We Are Saying is Give Peace a Chance (Portsmouth Herald, December 9, 2002)
- The Cost of War: Economic Ripples, High Oil Costs to Follow War with Iraq (CBS Marketwatch, December 10, 2002)
- Calculating the Cost of War (National Public Radio - On Point, December 11, 2002)
- The Real Cost of War With Iraq (Businessweek Online, December 16, 2002)
- Staying Mum on Real Iraq War Pricetag (Philadelphia Enquirer, December 11, 2002)
- Bush Finds North Korea Crisis One Too Many (San Diego Union-Tribune, January 6, 2003)
- An Agreeable Option: Hussein's Exile (The Kansas City Star, January 26, 2003)
- Consequences of Attack on Iraq at Heart of Debate (The Denver Post, January 26, 2003)
- War debate boiled down: Is Saddam contained? (The Charlotte Observer , February 1, 2003)
- Drunken Sailor Economics (Salon.com, February 4, 2003)
- Bush budget doesn't include costly war (Scripps Howard News Service, February 4, 2003)
- The Cost of War (The Atlantic Monthly, March, 2003)
- What's A War Cost These Days? (CBS News, February 28, 2003)
- Economic Costs of War: Overview (Now with Bill Moyers, March 25, 2003)
- Rebuilding Iraq Likely to Top War's Cost (FOX News, August 12, 2003)
- Iraq costs keep rising (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 13, 2003)
- Time for facts on Iraq war (Santa Maria Times, August 14, 2003)
- Monthly costs of Iraq, Afghan wars approach that of Vietnam
  (USA TODAY, September 7, 2003)

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“Evaluation and the Academy: Are We Doing the Right Thing? Grade Inflation and Letters of Recommendation”

Press Release (PDF)
Executive Summary (PDF)
Occasional Paper (PDF)
Related Articles:
- Everyone's A Star (Christian Science Monitor, February 5, 2002)
- A Call for an End to Grade Inflation ( USA Today, February 5, 2002)
- Academy Report Reveals Grade Inflation Nationwide (Harvard Crimson, February 1, 2002)
- Grade Inflation Debate Extends Beyond Ivies (Yale Daily News, February 8, 2002)
- Ivy League Grade Inflation (USA Today, February 7, 2002)
- Grade Inflation More Prevalent At Selective Colleges, Study Says (The Hoya, February 8, 2002)
- Inflation of Grades Spurs Questioning Nationwide (The Cavalier Daily, February 11, 2002)
- Grade Inflation Failures (The Cavalier Daily, February 5, 2002)
- Grade Inflation an Issue at Universities Nationwide (The Marquette Tribune, February 27, 2002)
- Statistics Indicate C.U. Grade Inflation (Cornell Daily Sun, April 11, 2002)
- Grade Inflation on the Rise (Cornell Daily Sun, April 15, 2002)
- Student Evaluations Solution to Grade Inflation (The Hoya, April 19, 2002)
- Amid Cries of Grade Inflation, C's Still Abound (Christian Science Monitor, August 20, 2002)
- When “A” is for Anybody (Newsweek, September 17, 2002)
- Easy grading makes 'deep learning' more important (USA Today, February 4, 2003)
- You Can't Outlaw Failure; It only makes it harder to succeed. (Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2003)

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“Trends in American & German Higher Education”

Executive Summary (PDF)
Occasional Paper (PDF)

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“Making the Humanities Count: The Importance of Data”

Press Release (PDF)
Occasional Paper (PDF)
Related Articles:
- Arts and Sciences (Washington Post , April 30, 2002)
- A Scientific Approach …To The Humanities (Christian Science Monitor, August 20, 2002)

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“Probing Human Origins”

CISS Occasional Papers

The Committee on International Security Studies has published numerous papers from its study projects and meetings.

Recent Papers:

Print copies of the following recent papers can be ordered from the Academy.

Occasional Paper: War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives (PDF)
Occasional Paper: The Significance of Joint Missile Surveillance (PDF)

This Occasional Paper, published in July of 2001, is a product of the CISS project on “The Global Security Implications of Sharing Missile Surveillance Data”
- Related Article: “Bush Can Open a Door to Peace” by James Carroll, Boston Globe, page A19, July 10, 2001
The US and the International Criminal Court: The Choices Ahead

Previous Papers

Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence

Print copies of the following previous papers can be ordered from the Academy ($10 per copy).
A Joint Project of CISS and the Peace and Conflict Studies Program, University of Toronto.
- “The Case of China”
  Elizabeth Economy, Council on Foreign Relations (1997)
- “The Economic Costs of China's Environmental Degradation”
  Vaclav Smil and Mao Yushi, Project Coordinators (1998)
  Out of Print
- “The Case of Indonesia”
  Charles Victor Barber, World Resources Institute (1997)
Peace Operations by the United Nations:
The Case for a Volunteer UN Military Force (1996)

Print copies of the following previous papers can be ordered from the Academy ($10 per copy).

This report by Carl Kaysen and George Rathjens is the product of a CISS study group from the Academy's program on “Emerging Norms of Justified Intervention,” which included CISS member general (ret.) Edward Meyer (former chief of staff, US Army) and ambassador Robert Oakley. Through case studies on Somalia, Bosnia, Cambodia, Haiti, Rwanda, and the Congo, the group analyzed the feasibility of developing a dedicated combat force under UN control that could be deployed to areas of conflict early enough to effect a cease-fire and allow time for political negotiations. The working group and report were funded by the Bechtel Foundation and the Ploughshares Fund.
Emerging Issues Series (1989-1995)

Print copies of the following previous papers can be ordered from the Academy ($5 per copy).
- “The Impact of the New Borderlands on the Russian Military”
  by Sherman W. Garnett, Occasional Paper No. 9 (August 1995). 24 pages.
- “The Saladin Syndrome: Lessons from the Gulf War”
  by Ze'ev Schiff and Walid Khalidi, Occasional Paper No. 8 (August 1991). 45 pages.
- “Negotiating the Non-Negotiable: Jerusalem in the Framework of an Israeli-Palestinian Settlement”
  by Naomi Chazan with commentary by Fouad Moughrabi and Rashid I. Khalidi, Occasional Paper No. 7 (March 1991). 39 pages.
- “The Palestinian Right of Return: Two Views”
  by Rashid I. Khalidi and Itamar Rabinovich, Occasional Paper No. 6 (October 1990). 31 pages.
- “Verification and Conventional Arms Reduction”
  by Jürgen Altmann, Péter Déak, Catherine Kelleher, and Vadim Makarevsky, Occasional Paper No. 5 (June 1990). 46 pages.
- “Environmental Change and Violent Conflict”
  by Thomas Homer-Dixon, Occasional Paper No. 4 (June 1990). 47 pages.
- “Middle East Security: Two Views”
  by Ahmad S. Khalidi and Yair Evron, Occasional Paper No. 3 (May 1990). 50 pages.
- “Nuclear Weapons and International Systemic Stability: A Preliminary Methodological Inquiry”
  by John Lewis Gaddis, Occasional Paper No. 2 (January 1990). 27 pages.
  Out of Print
- “Global Transformations”
  by James N. Rosenau, Occasional Paper No. 1 (November 1989). 20 pages.
  Out of Print
Environmental Change and Acute Conflict (1992-1993)

Print copies of the following previous papers can be ordered from the Academy ($5 per copy).

These papers were prepared for a joint project of the University of Toronto and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The project investigated how environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources might contribute to social strife and conflict in many parts of the world. Through a series of case studies and conferences in 1991-92, the project looked specifically at the links between environmental change and conflict in three areas: water scarcity, population displacement, and the economic repercussions of reduced agricultural and resource productivity.
- “Pressure Points: Environmental Degradation, Migration and Conflict”
  by Astri Suhrke and “Bangladesh and Assam: Land Pressures, Migration and Ethnic Conflict,” by Sanjoy Hazarika, Occasional Paper No. 3 (March 1993). 67 pages.
- “Environmental Change as a Source of Conflict and Economic Losses in China”
  by Vaclav Smil and “Imminent Political Conflicts Arising from China's Environmental Crises,” by Jack A. Goldstone, Occasional Paper No. 2 (December 1992). 60 pages.
- “Water and Conflict” Out of Print
  by Peter H. Gleick and “West Bank Water Resources and the Resolution of Conflict in the Middle East,” by Miriam R. Lowi, Occasional Paper No. 1 (September 1992). 62 pages.