Occasional Papers

A series of Occasional Papers, disseminating the work of Academy projects, is now available online in Adobe pdf format. To order a copy of an Occasional Paper ($6.00 ea. unless otherwise noted) click here, or e-mail publications@amacad.org.

If you are unable to open a file, download Adobe Acrobat Reader (Windows or Macintosh version). To view individual publications, select from the following list:

• "The Policy World Meets Academia: Designing U.S. Policy toward Russia"
  
  
• "Do Scientists Understand the Public?"
  
  
• "Shared Responsibilities for Nuclear Disarmament: A Global Debate"
  
  
• "Multinational Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle"
  
  
• "The Future of Human Spaceflight: Objectives and Policy Implications in a Global Context"
  
  
• "United States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities Gone Astray"
  
  
• "A European Approach to Space Security"
  
  
• "A Place for One’s Mat: China’s Space Program, 1956–2003"
  
  
• "Education and a Civil Society: Teaching Evidence-Based Decision Making"
  
  
• "Using Imaging to Identify Deceit: Scientific and Ethical Questions"
  
  
• "Reconsidering the Rules for Space Security"
  
  
• "Russian and Chinese Responses to U.S. Military Plans in Space"
  
  
• "Universal Basic and Secondary Education"
  
  
• "Education, Health, and Development"
  
  
• "No Good Choices: LBJ and the Vietnam/Great Society Connection"
  
  
• "Global Educational Expansion: Historical Legacies and Political Obstacles"
  
  
• "Achieving Universal and Basic Secondary Education: How Much Will It Cost?"
  
  
• "Improving Education Through Assessment, Innovation, and Evaluation"
  
  
• "Measuring Global Educational Progress"
  
  
• "Tracking Changes in the Humanities"
  
  
• "United States Space Policy: Challenges and Opportunities"
  
  
• "The Physics of Space Security: A Reference Manual" ($15.00)
  
  
• "The Consequences of Global Educational Expansion: Social Science Perspectives"
  
  
• "War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives"
  
  
• "Evaluation and the Academy: Are We Doing the Right Thing?"
  
  
• "Trends in American & German Higher Education" (688 kb), Executive Summary (19 kb)
  
  
• "Making the Humanities Count: The Importance of Data" (398 kb), Press Release (52 kb) Related Articles: "Arts and Sciences" (Washington Post, 4/30/02); "A Scientific Approach …To The Humanities" (Christian Science Monitor, 8/20/02)
  
  
• "Probing Human Origins" (1.2 mb), Press Release (43 kb), Executive Summary (22 kb)

CISS Occasional Papers

• "War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives" (661 kb)
• "The Significance of Joint Missile Surveillance" (197 kb), published in July of 2001 as 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, p. A19, 1/10/01
• "The US and the International Criminal Court: The Choices Ahead"

Previous Papers

• "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)
  
  

• "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

• "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.

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