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Working Papers

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Title: The Precarious Ally: Bahrain's Impasse and U.S. Policy
Author: Frederic Wehrey
Date: February 2013

Title: The Mythical Alliance: Russia's Syria Policy
Author: Dmitri Trenin
Date: February 2013

Title: Employing India: Guaranteeing Jobs for the Rural Poor
Author: Ganesh Kumar, Scott McDonald, Manoj Panda, Eduardo Zepeda
Date: February 2013

Title: Contested Consolidation of Power in Iraq
Author: Maria Fantappie
Date: February 2013

Title: The Stalin Puzzle: Deciphering Post-Soviet Public Opinion
Author: Lasha Bakradze, Thomas de Waal, Lev Gudkov, Maria Lipman
Date: January 2013

Title: Russia XXI: The Logic of Suicide and Rebirth
Author: Lilia Shevtsova
Date: January 2013

Center for Global Development

Title: Getting to Normal with the Two Sudans
Author: ate Almquist Knopf
Date: February 2013

Title: Identification for Development: The Biometrics Revolution
Author: Julia Clark, Alan Gelb
Date: January 2013

Centre for International Governance Innovation

Title: Strengthening IFIs to Promote Effective International Cooperation
Author: Thomas A. Bernes
Date: February 2013

Danish Institute for International Studies

Title: Practice makes Perfect? The European Union's engagement in negotiations on a post-2015 framework for development
Author: Adam Moe Fejerskov, Niels Keijzer
Date: February 2013

Title: European Union Development Cooperation in a Changing Global Context
Author: Adam Moe Fejerskov
Date: February 2013

European Union Institute for Security Studies

Title: Brussels - Beijing: changing the game?
Author: Nicola Casarini (ed)
Date: March 2013

Title: The role of non-state actors in EU policies towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Author: Benedetta Voltolini
Date: October 2012

Finnish Institute for International Affairs

Title: Political change in Myanmar: Filtering the murky waters of "disciplined democracy"
Author: Bart Gaens
Date: February 2013

Title: Building bridges or digging trenches? Civil society engagement after the Arab Spring
Author: Timo Behr, Aaretti Siitonen
Date: January 2013

German Institute of Global and Area Studies

Title: The Reform of China's Energy Policies
Author: Joachim Betz
Date: February 2013

Title: Microblogs in China: Bringing the State Back In
Author: Nele Noesselt
Date: February 2013

Title: Long-Term Monarchical Survival in the Middle East: A Configurational Comparison, 1945–2012
Author: André Bank, Thomas Richter, Anna Sunik
Date: February 2013

Title: China's Foreign Policy Think Tanks: Changing Roles and Structural Conditions
Author: Pascal Abb
Date: January 2013

Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University

Title: Population, Resources, and Energy in the Global Economy: A Vindication of Herman Daly's Vision
Author: Jonathan M. Harris
Date: February 2013

Title: Green Keynesianism: Beyond Standard Growth Paradigms
Author: Jonathan M. Harris
Date: February 2013

Title: Climate Impacts on Agriculture: A Challenge to Complacency?
Author: Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth A. Stanton
Date: February 2013

Title: A Financial Crisis Manual Causes, Consequences, and Lessons of the Financial Crisis
Author: Ben Beachy
Date: December 2012

Title: The Cost to Developing Countries of U.S. Corn Ethanol Expansion
Author: Timothy A. Wise
Date: October 2012

Title: Poisoning the Well, or How Economic Theory Damages Moral Imagination
Author: Julie A. Nelson
Date: October 2012

Title: Achieving Mexico's Maize Potential
Author: Antonio Turrent Fernández, Elise Garvey, Timothy A. Wise
Date: October 2012

Title: Is Dismissing the Precautionary Principle the Manly Thing to Do? Gender and the Economics of Climate Change
Author: Julie A. Nelson
Date: September 2012

Title: Are Women Really More Risk-Averse than Men?
Author: Julie A. Nelson
Date: September 2012

Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Title: Diplomacy, Development and Security in the Information Age
Author: Shanthi Kalathil
Date: February 2013

International Crisis Group

Title: Tunisie : violences et défi salafiste
Date: February 2013

Title: Sudan's Spreading Conflict (I): War in South Kordofan
Date: February 2013

Title: Sri Lanka's Authoritarian Turn: The Need for International Action
Date: February 2013

Title: Spider Web: The Making and Unmaking of Iran Sanctions
Date: February 2013

Title: Serbia and Kosovo: The Path to Normalisation
Date: February 2013

Title: Guinea: A Way Out of the Election Quagmire
Date: February 2013

Title: China's Central Asia Problem
Date: February 2013

Title: Extreme Makeover? (II): The Withering of Arab Jerusalem
Date: December 2012

Title: Extreme Makeover? (I): Israel's Politics of Land and Faith in East Jerusalem
Date: December 2012

International Peace Institute

Title: Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges in the Fight Against Impunity
Date: February 2013

Title: Enhancing European Military and Police Contributions to UN Peacekeeping
Date: February 2013

Istituto Affari Internazionali

Title: Italian Missions Abroad: National Interests and Procedural Practice
Author: Federica Di Camillo, Paola Tessari
Date: February 2013

Title: Israel Remains on the Right. The Historical Reasons Behind a Long-established Political Supremacy
Author: Lorenzo Kamel
Date: February 2013

Title: The BRICS and international peacebuilding and statebuilding
Author: Oliver Richmond, Ioannis Tellidis
Date: February 2013

Title: Russia assumes and exploits the chairmanship of the G20
Author: Pavel K. Baev
Date: February 2013

Title: Is there a preventive action renaissance? The policy and practice of preventive diplomacy and conflict prevention
Author: Robert Muggah, Natasha White
Date: February 2013

Title: The civil defence-civilian protection nexus in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Author: Riina Isotalo
Date: January 2013

Title: Initiatives to foster an Afghan peace process, 2001-12: a role for Norway?
Author: Kristian Berg Harpviken
Date: January 2013

Title: China's impact on conflict and fragility in South Asia
Author: Clare Castillejo
Date: January 2013

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Title: The Importance of Trade and Capital Imbalances in the European Debt Crisis
Author: Andrew Hughes Hallett, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliva
Date: January 2013

Project on Defense Alternatives

Title: Reasonable Defense: A Sustainable Approach to Securing the Nation
Author: Carl Conetta
Date: November 2012

Research Center (SFB) 700

Title: Assessing the Impact of Development Cooperation in Northeast Afghanistan
Author: Jan Böhnke, Jan Koehler, Christoph Zürcher
Date: February 2013

Small Arms Survey

Title: Policing the Periphery: Opportunities and Challenges for Kenya Police Reserves
Author: Kennedy Mkutu, Gerald Wandera
Date: March 2013

Title: The US Firearms Industry: Production and Supply
Author: Jurgen Brauer
Date: February 2013

Title: Battering, Rape, and Lethal Violence: A Baseline of Information on Physical Threats against Women in Nairobi
Author: Claire McEvoy
Date: December 2012

Title: Internal Control: Codes of Conduct within Insurgent Armed Groups
Author: Olivier Bangerter
Date: November 2012

Title: After the Fall: Libya's Evolving Armed Groups
Author: Brian McQuinn
Date: October 2012

Title: The Programme of Action: Implementation Monitor (Phase 1) Assessing Reported Progress
Author: Katherine Green, Sarah Parker
Date: August 2012

Title: Blue Skies and Dark Clouds: Kazakhstan and Small Arms
Author: Dauren Aben, Nicolas Florquin, Takhmina Karimova
Date: May 2012

United States Institute of Peace

Title: Wartime Sexual Violence: Misconceptions, Implications, and Ways Forward
Author: Dara Kay Cohen, Amelia Hoover Green, Elisabeth Jean Wood
Date: February 2013

Title: Police Transition in Afghanistan
Author: Robert M. Perito, Donald J. Planty
Date: February 2013

Title: Perceptions of Politically Engaged, Influential Afghans on the Way Forward
Author: Omar Samad
Date: February 2013

Title: Natural Disasters as Threats to Peace
Author: Frederick S. Tipson
Date: February 2013

Title: Justifying the Means: Afghan Perceptions of Electoral Processes
Author: Noah Coburn, Anna Larson
Date: February 2013

Policy Briefs

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Title: Treaty Design and Duration: Effects on R&D, Participation, and Compliance
Author: Bard Harstad
Date: January 2013

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Title: Uzbekistan: What Changes Can Be Expected?
Author: Alexey Malashenko
Date: December 2012

Center for Global Development

Title: US Spending in Haiti: The Need for Greater Transparency and Accountability
Author: Vijaya Ramachandran, Julie Walz
Date: February 2013

Title: The Need for More Local Procurement in Haiti
Author: Vijaya Ramachandran, Julie Walz
Date: February 2013

Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies

Title: The Lancang-Mekong River Basin: Reflections on cooperation mechanisms pertaining to a shared watercourse
Author: Apichai Sunchindah
Date: February 2013

Council on Foreign Relations

Title: Support Process Over Personalities in Pakistan
Author: Daniel Markey
Date: February 2013

East-West Center

Title: The Elusive Nature of North Korean Reform
Author: Marcus Noland
Date: February 2013

Title: Patterns of Free Trade Areas in Asia
Author: Masahiro Kawai, Ganeshan Wignaraja
Date: February 2013

Title: How Emerging Forms of Capitalism Are Changing the Global Economic Order
Author: Christopher A. McNally
Date: February 2013

European Union Institute for Security Studies

Title: Good cop or bad cop? Sanctioning Belarus
Author: Ondrej Ditrych
Date: March 2013

Title: Water as a stress factor in sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Any Freitas
Date: February 2013

Title: The shale gas 'revolution': challenges and implications for the EU
Author: Iana Dreyer, Gerald Stang
Date: February 2013

Title: Strategic foresight - and the EU
Author: Antonio Missiroli
Date: February 2013

Title: UNSCR 1540 and the EU: reinforcing national responsibilities
Author: Charlotte Beaucillon
Date: December 2012

Finnish Institute for International Affairs

Title: The shale gas boom: The global implications of the rise of unconventional fossil energy
Author: Antto Vihma
Date: February 2013

Title: The changing European defence market: Will the new European defence market legislation be a game-changer for Finland?
Author: Jukka Anteroinen, Ville Lauttamäki, Harri Mikkola
Date: February 2013

Title: David Cameron's European policy: Britain sidelined by Euroscepticism and the economic crisis
Author: Juha Jokela
Date: February 2013

Title: Carving out his place in history: What challenges will Barack Obama tackle in his second term?
Author: Charly Salonius-Pasternak
Date: January 2013

International Crisis Group

Title: Bosnia's Dangerous Tango: Islam and Nationalism
Date: February 2013

International Peace Institute

Title: Mali and the Sahel-Sahara: From Crisis Management to Sustainable Strategy
Author: Mireille Affa'a-Mindzie, Chris Perry
Date: February 2013

Title: Migrants in Times of Crisis: An Emerging Protection Challenge
Author: Jérémie Labbé, Chris Perry
Date: February 2012

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

Title: Qatar's mediation initiatives
Author: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Date: February 2013

Title: Qatar's international role: branding, investment and policy projection
Author: J. E. Peterson
Date: February 2013

Title: Qatar's foreign policy
Author: Bernard Haykel
Date: February 2013

Title: Qatar as a financial investor
Author: David Roberts
Date: February 2013

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Title: Liquefied Natural Gas Exports: An Opportunity for America
Author: Allie E. Bagnall, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Julia Muir
Date: February 2013

Title: From Supervision to Resolution: Next Steps on the Road to European Banking Union
Author: Nicolas Veron, Guntram B. Wolff
Date: February 2013

Title: Debt Restructuring and Economic Prospects in Greece
Author: William R. Cline
Date: February 2013

Title: A Blueprint for Rebalancing the Chinese Economy
Author: Nicholas Borst, Nicholas R. Lardy
Date: February 2013

Title: The World Needs a Multilateral Investment Agreement
Author: Anders Aslund
Date: January 2013

The Polish Institute of International Affairs

Title: Reengineering EMU for an Uncertain World
Author: Angel Ubide
Date: February 2013

Project on Defense Alternatives

Title: Pentagon Base Budget to Get Bigger Share in 2013
Author: Carl Conetta
Date: March 2013

Title: A Reasonable Alternative to Sequester of DoD Funding
Date: August 2012

Title: USA and Allies Outspend Potential Rivals on Military by Four-to-One; America Carries Much of the Defense Burden for its Allies
Author: Carl Conetta
Date: July 2012

Title: OPTIONS FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE SAVINGS: FISCAL YEAR 2013
Author: Carl Conetta, Benjamin H. Friedman, Charles Knight, Christopher Preble, Ethan Rosenkranz
Date: May 2012

Title: How Much Austerity in New Pentagon Budget?
Author: Carl Conetta, Charles Knight
Date: February 2012