David C. Gompert

Considers potential Chinese responses to U.S. transformation efforts and offers possible U.S. counterresponses. For the past decade, Chinese military strategists have keenly observed the changes in U.S. national strategy and military transformation. This report examines the constraints, facilitators, and potential options for Chinese responses to U.S. transformation efforts and offers possible U.S. counterresponses (particularly in light of whether Taiwan moves toward or away from formal independence).

A summary of two RAND studies on options for facilitating successful Palestinian development. A summary of two RAND studies on options for facilitating successful Palestinian development, MG-146-DCR and MG-327-GG. The former examines options for strengthening governance, security, economic development, access to water, health and health care, and education. The latter examines options for addressing housing, transportation, and related infrastructure needs. Both studies estimate the financing needed for successful development.

A critical mass of Palestinians and Israelis, as well as the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations, remain committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state. The authors, examine in objective fashion the requirements for creating and maintaining successful statehood during the first decade of Palestine's independence.

The product of a conference jointly sponsored by the RAND Corporation and Centre Asie Ifri, this volume presents transatlantic views of Chinese foreign policy and national security goals. It offers a common path for engaging China as a rising power. The product of a conference jointly sponsored by the RAND Corporation and Centre Asie Ifri, this volume represents a transatlantic view of Chinese national strategy and capabilities and offers a common path for engaging rising Chinese power. Its aim is to examine the issues through a U.S.-French prism and to facilitate analysis of how to develop U.S.-European cooperation on China policy.

Notes the increasing gap in the ability of the U.S. and European militaries to operate effectively with each other, and examines ways to address the challenge. As the U.S. military transforms into a highly mobile and lethal force designed for expeditionary warfare, European allies remain focused on stability operations. Because traditional forces cannot integrate or function effectively with transformed forces, the U.S.-allied cooperability gap is becoming unbridgeable, threatening basic U.S. and European interests and alliance cohesion. The authors explore strategies for addressing this challenge.