The arrival of postindustrial society has transformed the traditional bases of national power, and thus the methods used to measure the relative power of nations should be reassessed as well.

In Iran, the United States could return to a full-scale bombing campaign, walk away from the conflict, or stick with the ...

A theoretical study of bureaucratic decisionmaking. It attempts to provide both a better understanding of the operation of bureaus and to supply the techniques for predicting their behavior. This ...

Amid renewed Russian belligerence and a pattern of nuclear threats, and against the backdrop of transatlantic burden-shifting between the United States and European NATO Allies, the UK and France—as ...

This work was made possible by RAND’s own resources, including income from operations, unrestricted gifts from RAND supporters, and distributions from its long-term investment fund. The RAND Center ...

This research was independently initiated and made possible by RAND’s own resources, including income from operations, unrestricted gifts from RAND supporters, and distributions from its long-term ...

China is watching carefully as Russia and North Korea deepen their military ties. In this report, the authors examine China’s evolving position regarding this partnership and assess its implications ...

Transformative artificial intelligence (AI) presents safety and societal risks that governments alone are unlikely to manage in time. Frontier research and deployment of AI are concentrated in private ...

In this report, the authors present selected findings from the 2026 State of the American Teacher survey, an annual survey of kindergarten through grade 12 (K–12) public school teachers across the ...

Scholars, education practitioners, and the media have raised concerns about the diminishing role of full books in schools. In this report, the author draws on data from the spring 2025 American ...

The 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) elevates Latin America as a region of serious U.S. security concern. The region presents the United States with both promising opportunities and notable ...

Over the past five years, expert forecasts for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) — defined as systems capable of performing most economically valuable work at or above human level across ...