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December 2001
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Dec 2001
Moving from MAD to Cooperative Threat Reduction
Author: Michael Krepon
Publisher:
Henry L Stimson Center
This paper discusses the Bush administration's aspirations to renegotiate the ABM Treaty and deploy a missile defense system.
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Dec 2001
Transforming Defense
Author: Brian M Linn, Frank N Schubert, David Jablonsky, Chris C Demchak, Patrick D Allen, Leslie K Lewis, Roger A Brown, W H Moore, Leonid I Polyakov
Publisher:
Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College (SSI)
This book presents papers from a 2001 conference on the transformation of the US armed forces in a post-Cold War world.
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Dec 2001
Japan and the Engagement of China
Author: Michael H Armacost, Kenneth B Pyle
Publisher:
National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
This article examines the challenges for US policy coordination in East Asia, arguing that the US must coordinate its engagement of China with Japan.
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Dec 2001
Markov or Not Markov – This Should Be a Question
Author: Frank Bickenbach, Eckhardt Bode
Publisher:
Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Although it is well known that Markov process theory, frequently applied in the literature on income convergence, imposes some very restrictive assumptions upon the data generating process, these assumptions have generally been taken for granted so f...
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Dec 2001
Venture Capital in Europe's Common Market
Author: Andrea Schertler
Publisher:
Kiel Institute for the World Economy
This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market.
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Dec 2001
When Does It Pay to Plant Bt Corn?
Author: Charles M Benbrook
Publisher:
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Corn farmers have now planted over 70 million acres of Bt corn, genetically engineered to express Bacillus Thuringiensis (Bt) toxins in plant tissues for the control of two Lepidopteran insects, the European Corn Borer (ECB) and the Southwestern Corn...
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November 2001
