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• Winter 2013

  The 21st-Century Land Rush

  Michael Kugelman

  The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) recently reported that nearly three dozen countries designated as “alarming” or “serious” on its Global Hunger Index scale are leasing vast swaths of farmland… Read More

• Fall 2011

  The Shifting Landscape of Science

  Caroline S. Wagner

  Citations to U.S. science, in the aggregate, have been flat over the past 30 years, whereas citations of research papers from the rest of the world have been rising steadily. Although the… Read More

• Fall 2012

  Controlling the Arms Bazaar

  Jo. L. Husbands

  In July 2012, after years of preliminary effort, United Nations (UN) member nations gathered in New York to draft a treaty that would provide the foundation for regulating the international arms trade.… Read More

• Spring 2010

  European Union: Measuring Success

  Patrick Cunningham

  In his keynote speech to the National Academy of Sciences on April 28, 2009, President Obama said that “science is more essential to our prosperity, our security, our health, our environment and… Read More

• Winter 2012

  Blueprint for Advancing High-Performance Homes

  James H. Turner Jr., Ellen Larson Vaughan

  Given the economic devastation caused by the housing industry collapse in the United States and the years remaining until full recovery, it may seem out of touch to be talking about meeting… Read More

• Summer 2011

  The Life of Feynman

  William Lanouette

  William Lanouette explores the life and legacy of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman in his review of Lawrence M. Krauss’s “Quantum Man.”

• Fall 2010

  The Dismal State of Biofuels Policy

  C. Ford Runge, Robbin S. Johnson

  Biofuels policy in the United States remains controversial and much debated. In the months since BP’s catastrophic deep-water oil rig explosion, the international debate over energy, ever inclined to drift on the… Read More

• Fall 2010

  Strengthening Global Nuclear Governance

  Justin Alger, Trevor Findlay

  Motivated in large part by climate change and the need for carbon-free energy sources, governments and companies around the world are pushing to revive nuclear energy. Developed and developing countries alike have… Read More

• Winter 2011

  Fighting Innovation Mercantilism

  Stephen Ezell

  Despite the global economic downturn, indicators of global innovative activity have remained strong during the past two years. The total global output of scientific journal papers in all research fields for the… Read More

• Spring 2010

  Singapore: Betting on Biomedical Sciences

  Lim Chuan Poh

  In an April 2009 report, the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council noted that Singapore, an emerging biotech cluster, was “aiming to move up the value chain and position itself as a world-class center for… Read More

• Spring 2010

  The New Global Landscape of Educational Achievement

  Andreas Schleicher

  Some 10 years ago, we lived in a very different world where education systems tended to be inward-looking, where schools and education systems typically considered themselves to be unique, and where the… Read More

• Spring 2010

  United States: A Strategy for Innovation

  Diana Farrell, Thomas Kalil

  On September 21, 2009, President Obama released his Strategy for American Innovation, which he unveiled in a major policy address that he gave in Troy, New York. The goal of the… Read More

• Spring 2009

  In the Zone: Comprehensive Ocean Protection

  Carrie V. Kappel, Benjamin S. Halpern, Rebecca G. Martone, Fiorenza Micheli, Kimberly A. Selkoe

  For too long, humanity’s effects on the oceans have been out of sight and out of mind. Looking at the vast ocean from the shore or a jet’s window, it is hard… Read More

• Fall 2009

  China‘s Future: Have Talent, Will Thrive

  Denis Fred Simon, Cong Cao

  When China’s leaders surveyed their development prospects at the onset of the 21st century, they reached an increasingly obvious conclusion: Their current economic development strategy, heavily dependent on natural resources, fossil fuel,… Read More

• Fall 2008

  Be Careful What You Wish For: A Cautionary Tale about Budget Doubling

  Richard B. Freeman, John Van Reenen

  Sometime in the near future, with timing dependent on the economy, the military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and other competing demands for government money, Congress will substantially boost R&D spending. It… Read More

• Spring 2007

  Emerging Economies Coming on Strong

  Deborah L. Wince-Smith

  The Council on Competitiveness released its flagship publication, Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands, last November. While the United States remains the global economic leader, the Index makes the case that its… Read More

• Fall 2007

  Excelsior: The Korean Innovation Story

  Sungchul Chung

  When Korea launched its industrialization drive in the early 1960s, it was a typical developing country, with poor resource and production bases, a small domestic market, and a large population dependent on… Read More

• Summer 2007

  Does Science Policy Matter?

  Daniel Sarewitz

  It is not only axiomatic but also true that federal science policy is largely played out as federal science budget policy. Science advocacy organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement… Read More

• Summer 2007

  Water Scarcity: The Food Factor

  David Molden, Charlotte de Fraiture, Frank Rijsberman

  With so much talk about a global water crisis, about water scarcity, and about increasing competition and conflicts over water, it would be easy to get the impression that Earth is running… Read More

• Summer 2007

  Full Disclosure: Using Transparency to Fight Climate Change

  Elena Fagotto, Mary Graham

  Congressional leaders are finally working seriously on long term-approaches to counter climate change. But all the major proposals leave a critical policy gap because they would not take effect for at least… Read More

• Spring 2007

  India’s Growth Path: Steady but not Straight

  Salil Tripathi

  By almost any reckoning, the Indian economy is booming. This year, Indian officials revised their estimated economic growth for 2006 from 8% to 9.3%. This growth has been sustained over the past… Read More

• Spring 2007

  Forum – Spring 2007

  Kent H. Hughes, Sy Deitchman, David G. Boyd, Richard G. Richels, Robert N. Butler, Denny L. Dillard, Daryl Hatano, James N. Morgan, G. Wayne Clough, Theresa Hitchens, James Oberg, Terry L. Cline

  Communications security Jon M. Peha’s description of our nation’s emergency response interoperability clearly highlights the challenges we faced in the multiple attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as many other incidents… Read More

• Spring 2007

  Scrutinizing the Inscrutable

  Kevin Finneran

  Business and government leaders around the world are pondering developments in China and India. Everyone can see that the future of more than a third of the world’s population is of paramount… Read More

• Spring 2007

  It’s the Neurons, Stupid; Or Is It?

  Arie W. Kruglanski

  Neuroscience is rapidly coming to dominate psychology. Its high-tech exploration of the relationship between behavior and the physical characteristics of the brain is the polar opposite of “bubbe” psychology: the commonsense notion … Read More

• Summer 2006

  Forum – Summer 2006

  Lewis M. Branscomb, Denis Fred Simon, James Goodby, Frank Barnaby, Lincoln Wolfenstein, Muhammad Sahimi, Daniel D. Benetti, Tim Eichenberg, George H. Leonard, David A. Mongillo, John Horsley, Robert W. Poole Jr., Ron Utt, Harold Linnenkohl, Lori A. Perine, Buford A. Crites

  Nuclear amnesia Jack Mendelsohn is certainly right about “nuclear amnesia” (“Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons,” Issues, Spring 2006). Even in official administration documents, there is a rather casual attitude about the possibility… Read More

• Fall 2001

  U.S. Economic Growth in the Information Age

  Dale W. Jorgenson

  The resurgence of the U.S. economy from 1995 to 1999 outran all but the most optimistic expectations. It is not surprising that the unusual combination of more rapid growth and slower inflation… Read More

• Fall 2005

  Envisioning a Transformed University

  James J. Duderstadt, Wm. A. Wulf, Robert Zemsky

  Rapidly evolving information technology (IT) has played an important role in expanding our capacity to generate, distribute, and apply knowledge, which in turn has produced unpredictable and frequently disruptive change in existing… Read More

• Summer 2005

  The National Nanotechnology Initiative: Present at the Creation

  Neal Lane, Thomas Kalil

  The United States, which made a major early commitment to nanotechnology in 2000, has been the world’s research leader, but as the promise of nanotechnology has grown the government commitment has flattened.… Read More

• Summer 2005

  Forum – Summer 2005

  Jonathan B. Tucker, David H. Guston, Arlie M. Skov, Robert Fri, Colin J. Campbell, Anne Korin, Chris Skrebowski, Elizabeth Casman, Duncan Cooper, Louise S. Gresham, Kelly J. Henning, Farzad Mostashari, Thomas Cochran, Christopher Paine, Andrew Koehler, F. David Doty, Kelly D. Brownell, Susan Hackwood, Muin J. Khoury, Lloyd F. Novick, Cynthia B. Morrow, William A. Smith

  Future oil supplies As Robert L. Hirsch, Roger H. Bezdek, and Robert M. Wendling themselves point out, their “Peaking Oil Production: Sooner Rather Than Later?” (Issues, Spring 2005) repeats… Read More

• Spring 2005

  Cartoon – Spring 2005

  “Don’t give me any of this healthy body mass index nonsense. I say you’re scrawny.”… Read More