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The essays can be read at the URL below.

Udhay

http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/summer2008/horizon.html

RAND Review
Issues over the Horizon
Eleven Emerging Challenges

To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the RAND Corporation and to uphold
its tradition of taking on the big issues of tomorrow, a call went out
to all RAND staff around the world, inviting them to propose essays on
“important policy issues not currently receiving the attention they
deserve in the public debate” — issues, in other words, that might be on
the back burner today but will likely become front-burner issues within
the next five years.

More than 100 issues were raised. The final product: the 11 essays
published here. These were selected either because they highlight major
public policy problems that have eluded the mainstream media radar or
because they point toward major public policy solutions that have been
likewise overlooked — or both.

Despite the wide range of topics, from corporate malfeasance to
antimicrobial resistance, common themes emerge. The biggest one is the
shaky financial footing that threatens to undermine several pillars of
the public interest: Medicare, Social Security, roads, bridges, water
systems, power grids, elections, military operations, diplomatic
endeavors, and public health. At the same time, there are national and
global reasons for hope. There is even a concluding vision of a new and
better form of statecraft.

Readers might be tempted to connect the issues outlined here with those
being debated on the U.S. presidential campaign trail, but that is not
the intent. Our goal is to raise public awareness of several salient
issues that will likely grow in prominence regardless of the election
outcome.

—John Godges

    * The Aging Couple
    * Corporate America’s Next Big Scandal
    * Innovative Infrastructure
    * The Day After: When Electronic Voting Machines Fail
    * Reality Check for Defense Spending
    * A New Anti-American Coalition
    * The Future of Diplomacy: Real Time or Real Estate?
    * Corporate Counterinsurgency
    * Beating the Germ Insurgency
    * A Second Reproductive Revolution
    * From Nation-State to Nexus-State



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