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The Transatlantic Economy 2011

Daniel S. Hamilton

The Transatlantic Economy surveys have become a standard reference for business, policymakers, and the media interested in the changing role of the U.S. and Europe in the global economy. This edition will further advance that trend. The Transatlantic Economy 2011 offers the most up-to-date survey of European sourced jobs, trade, and investment for each of the fifty U.S. states as well as U.S.-sourced jobs, trade, and investment for all European economies. Special chapters examine how the United States and Europe have emerged from the financial crisis, evaluate future prospects for onshored and offshored jobs, and present a new look at how key city-regions are driving prospects for transatlantic prosperity.

• Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780984134175
• Publication Date: Mar 2011
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Looming Shadows

Vedran Dzihic

In this book leading scholars and practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic discuss crucial developments in the field of migration and integration. They pay particular attention to security and economic challenges as Western countries struggle with upheavals in neighboring countries, terrorism, and fiscal and financial crises.Contributors include Cawo Abdi, Alicia Allgäuer, Sina Arnold, Sonja Aziz, Elizabeth Collett, Vedran Dzihic, Katherine Fennelly, Donna Gabaccia, Angela Huemer, Timothy Kaldas, Mary Kreutzer, Jonathan Laurence, Philip Lewis, Bernhard Perchinig, Aleksander Prvulovic, Thomas Schmidinger, Kristine Sinclair, and Meropi Tzanetakis.

• Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780984134182
• Publication Date: Feb 2012
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Preventing Conflict, Managing Crisis

Eva Gross

Over the past two decades the United States and Europe have engaged actively in efforts to prevent conflict and to manage crises around the world. How effective have such efforts been, and how could they be improved? This volume offers recommendations and applies them to specific case studies. In includes a Crisis Management Toolbox that outlines the key principles, actors, and instruments guiding such efforts.

• Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780984854417
• Publication Date: Jan 2012
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Open Ukraine in the Transatlantic Space

Taras Kuzio

Leading experts and political leaders from Europe and North America explore the political, economic, and foreign policy possibilities of a more politically progressive Ukraine in the heart of Europe. They investigate the obstacles that have turned Ukraine into an immobile state and offer specific recommendations that would open Ukraine by breaking its reform logjam.

• Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780984854424
• Publication Date: Jan 2012
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Europe's Economic Crisis

Robert M. Solow

Today the Eurozone is in turmoil, beset by stresses and strains that could challenge Europe's very construction. How did the current crisis come about, and how may it be resolved? And what does it mean for Europe's historic experiment in political and economic integration? This book addresses these questions and offers invaluable perspectives for anyone attempting to understand the roots and continuing impact of Europe's economic crisis.

• Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780984854431
• Publication Date: Feb 2012
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The Transatlantic Economy 2012, Volume 1

Daniel S. Hamilton

The Transatlantic Economy surveys have become a standard reference for businesses, policymakers, and media interested in the changing role of the U.S. and Europe in the global economy. This edition will further advance that trend. The Transatlantic Economy 2012 survey offers the most up-to-date set of facts, figures, and analysis available on the deep economic integration binding Europe and the United States.Volume 1 describes the impact of economic and financial crises; prospects for the dollar and euro; the position of the transatlantic economy in relation to high-growth emerging markets; and the changing landscape of international innovation.Volume 2 documents European-sourced jobs, trade, and investment in each of the fifty U.S. states and U.S.-sourced jobs, trade, and investment in thirty European countries.

• Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780984854448
• Publication Date: Nov 2015
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A Transatlantic Pivot to Asia

Hans Binnendijk

The American pivot or rebalancing to Asia is a central tenant of U.S. President Barack Obama's national security strategy. It envisions shifting America's focus from decade-long stability operations in the Greater Middle East to a comprehensive approach towards Asia, a region of economic growth and political instability. Many in Europe have misinterpreted this strategy as a U.S. move away from Europe. The purpose of this volume is to correct this record and to suggest that Europe too has vital interests in Asia. The transatlantic partners share common interests in Asia and need more effectively to coordinate their efforts to deal with the complex and dangerous challenges presented in Asia. There needs to be a "Transatlantic Pivot," not just a U.S. pivot. This volume analyzes various elements of what this Transatlantic Pivot might look like, including institutional arrangements, security issues, economics, energy, the environment, transnational challenges, human rights, rule of law, and diplomacy. It suggests a new trilateral relationship between the U.S., Europe, and Asian partners designed to strengthen Asian institutions, solve global problems and resolve disputes peacefully.Authors from the U.S., Europe and Asia contributed to this volume, including: Hans Binnendijk, Tim Boersma, Jaime de Bourbon Parme, Cathleen Cimino, Patrick Cronin, Pieter Feith, Mircea Geoana, Daniel Hamilton, Christopher Hill, Robert Hunter, Karl-Heinz Kamp, Rem Korteweg, Michael Schaefer, Jeffrey Schott, Julianne Smith, Alexander Sullivan, Simon Tay, Abiodun Williams and Reuben Wong.

• Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780989029476
• Publication Date: Jul 2014
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A New Paradigm

Sasha Toperich

A New Paradigm: Perspectives on the Changing Mediterranean is a collection of essays by scholars and activists from the north and south Mediterranean, Europe, and the United States. The contributors draw on their diverse experiences and perspectives to shine a light on a number of current and emerging Mediterranean issues and offer policy recommendations to tackle the challenges in the region. Taken as a whole, the volume suggests that greater international cooperation and inclusiveness are needed to promote a freer, more prosperous future for the people living in the broader Mediterranean Basin.

• Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780989029483
• Publication Date: Jul 2014
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Advancing U.S.-Nordic-Baltic Security Cooperation

Daniel S. Hamilton

• Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780990772002
• Publication Date: Oct 2014
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Small States Economic Review and Basic Statistics, Volume 21

Small States Economic Review and Basic Statistics is a flagship publication of the Commonwealth Secretariat highlighting the development indicators of Commonwealth Small States and disseminating knowledge of their economic performance.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781785599996
• Publication Date: Jun 2022
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Excellent Online Science Teaching

Frances Karels

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780940017450
• Publication Date: Sep 2019
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Unheard Voices of the Next Generation

Sasha Toperich

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780960012718
• Publication Date: May 2022
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Towards a Renewed Bretton Woods Agreement

Giovanni Tria

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780960012787
• Publication Date: Jul 2021
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Reality Check

John Nellis

Throughout the 1990's, privatization of inefficient state-owned enterprises was strongly embraced in developing and transitional economies. Little attention has gone to the distributional implications of the privatization movement, a particularly surprising oversight given the current backlash in many settings against further privatization. This book offers a comprehensive set of country-specific studies on the effects of privatization on people—winners and losers in different income, employment, and education groups. The studies analyze the changes in public tax revenue from privatized enterprises, shifts in pension and other liabilities, and changes in income of different groups. Contributors include David McKenzie (Stanford University), Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University), Gover Barja (Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz), Miguel Urquiola (Columbia University), Samuel Freije (Universidad de Las Américas in Puebla, Mexico), Luis A. Rivas (Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of Nicaragua), Máximo Torero, Enrique Schroth, and Alberto Pasco Font (Group of Analysis for Development [GRADE], Lima), Roberto Macedo (University of São Paulo, Presbyterian Mackenzie University, and Foundation Institute of Economic Research, São Paolo), Antonio Estache (World Bank), Michael Bleyzer and Edi Segura (SigmaBleyzer Corporation), Gary H. Jefferson, (Brandeis University), Su Jian (Brandeis and Peking Universities), Jiang Yuan and Yu Xinhua (National Bureau of Statistics, Beijing), and Malathy Knight-John and P.P.A. Wasantha (Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka).

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781933286006
• Publication Date: Oct 2005
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Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries

Nicolas van de Walle

In this book, Nicolas Van de Walle identifies 26 countries that are extremely poor and grew little if at all in the 1990s. His sample excludes North Korea and countries where civil war explains some of their failure to grow (Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tajikistan and others). The 26 countries have limited infrastructure and human capital and the small size of their markets deter private savings and investment. Aid was meant to help overcome these problems, and these countries received a lot. Yet they have failed to grow. What is wrong? Is foreign aid a solution or part of the problem? What changes might make aid more effective? Given these countries require the financial and technical resources of the West, why haven't aid programs made a difference? Van de Walle blames their economic failure mostly on the venality and incompetence of their political leadership. He analyzes the contradictions and tensions faced by the aid community in poorly run countries, providing a sobering analysis of the perverse effects of aid where the politics is all wrong. Too often, resources provided by foreign aid keep the wrong government in office, and undermine adoption of economic as well as political reforms. Bad government combined with aid, in short, hurts poor countries – and particularly the poorest people in those countries. Despite good intentions, little progress has been made in implementing announced "reforms" of the aid business itself. A constituency for reform is lacking, in the donor countries and in the recipient countries, where those in power benefit from the status quo.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781933286013
• Publication Date: Mar 2005
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Making Markets for Vaccines

Ruth Levine

Making a commitment in advance to buy vaccines if and when they are developed would create incentives for industry to increase investment in research and development. New commercial investment would complement funding of research and development by public and charitable bodies, accelerating the development of vital new vaccines for the developing world. This report presents the proposal from theory to practice, by showing how a commitment can be consistent with ordinary legal and budgetary principles. By creating arrangements that devote the same scientific effort to diseases of the poor as we put into diseases of the rich, we can make a lasting contribution to the defeat of poverty.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781933286020
• Publication Date: Apr 2005
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