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Land of Opportunity? Policy, Constraints, and Energy Security in North America
(2014)This paper explores some of the issues that confront the full realization of the benefits of energy resource development in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, collectively. We discuss the potential to improve North ... -
Managing the U.S.-Mexico Border Problem
(2007-08-17)Although legislation for migration reform and an international guest worker program has been effectively tabled for the remainder of the Bush administration, work continues on projects to more effectively monitor the ... -
Managing the U.S.-Mexico Border: Human Security and Technology
(2009)This paper examines the current U.S.-Mexico border management system, analyzing the factors and actors that have shaped the discourse about the border and its physical and technological development. The paper points out ... -
Measuring the Volume-Outcome Relation for Complex Hospital Surgery
(2016)Background: Prominent studies continue to measure the hospital volume-outcome relation using simple logistic or random-effects models. These regression models may not appropriately account for unobserved differences across ... -
The Medvedev Presidency: Russia's Direction and the Implications for Foreign Policy
(2009)Before the economic crisis of late 2008, Vladimir Putin’s political regime ensured the election of Dmitry Medvedev to the office of the presidency while Putin shifted to the role of prime minister—a move intended to solidify ... -
Monetary Emissions Trading Mechanisms
(2012)Emissions trading mechanisms have been proposed, and in some cases implemented, as a tool to reduce pollution. Under an emissions trading system ETS), producers must acquire permits equal to the amount of their emissions ... -
Mosquito-Transmitted Epidemics: Dengue, Chikungunya and West Nile in the United States and Mexico
(2015)West Nile, dengue, and chikungunya are all caused by arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses), which are transmitted primarily via mosquitos. In total, they result in more than 100,000 annual infections in the United States ... -
Mosquito-Transmitted Epidemics: Zika Virus in the United States and Mexico
(2016)The Zika outbreak serves as a reminder that global health and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) can affect local health. This issue brief argues that continued investments in global health and the study of emerging pathogens ... -
Natural Gas in the People's Republic of China
(2013-10-29)Part of a study directed by the Center for Energy Studies at Rice Universityﾒs Baker Institute, Harvard University's Geopolitics of Energy Project at the Kennedy School and the University of California, Davis, Graduate ... -
Natural Gas in the Republic of Iraq
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Natural Gas in the United States
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Natural Gas Price in Asia: What to Expect and What It Means
(2014)A decade ago, the natural gas industry was preparing for a structurally transformative shift in the global market. Substantial capital investments were being made to facilitate the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to ... -
Neglected Tropical Diseases among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Overview and Update
(2015)The ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) constitute an economic powerhouse, yet these countries also harbor a mostly hidden burden of poverty and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Almost ... -
New Alignments? The Geopolitics of Gas and Oil Cartels and the Changing Middle East
(2012)We analyze the likelihood of different coalitions emerging in energy markets in light of two new transformational events: the Arab Awakening and the rise of shale gas in the United States. Our analysis considers both ... -
A New Frontier in Texas: Managing and Regulating Brackish Groundwater
(2015)Providing access to clean water is a grand challenge in engineering, and supplying sufficient, clean water is a problem around the globe. This challenge is visible in Texas, where drought coincides with population growth ... -
Now We Are Six
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NTDs in the Heart of Darkness: The Democratic Republic of Congo's Unknown Burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases
(2013)The Democratic Republic of Congo may have one of the world's highest burdens of neglected tropical diseases, but nationwide there is a dearth of surveillance activities and available epidemiologic data about these conditions. -
Nuclear Nonproliferation: Policy Implications
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Nuclear Power Trends in the World
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Oil and Gas in Mexico: Geology, Production Rates and Reserves
(2011)Historically, Mexico has been one of the largest producers of oil in the world. At one time its production rate was second only to Saudi Arabia. But existing reserves are low, and at the present rate of production, will ...
