BOOK CHAPTERS
January 2007
"Universal Basic and Secondary Education"
By Joel E. Cohen, David E. Bloom, Martin B. Malin, Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom and Helen Anne Curry
This chapter reviews the current status of efforts to provide high quality schooling to all children between the ages of approximately 6 and 16. It examines rationales for undertaking such an effort, describes the challenges and obstacles these efforts face, suggests means of improving education delivery, and reviews varying estimates of the costs of achieving universal basic and secondary education.
"The Financial Architecture of Technology-Based Small Firms in Belgium: An Explorative Study"
By Ant Bozkaya, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2008–2009; Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2005–2009; Dubai Initiative, 2007–2008 and Bruno van Pottelsberghe
The evidence accumulated in this paper is consistent with the theoretical arguments that start-up companies face crucial difficulties in accessing external finance at early stages. We find that personal funds of the founders are the primary source of seed financing in 82 percent of the cases. Government subsidies of all kind and commercial bank loans are the primary external source of capital during early stages while business angels and venture capitalists play a greater role in later stages of development. There is also evidence that suggests an evolution of the mix of internal and external sources of capital. We find that the proportion of funds from internal sources declines while the proportion from external debt and equity sources increases with firms' age. Our findings based on entrepreneurs' scores in raising external sources of capital signal an equity gap rather than a management gap.
September, 2006
Leadership: Who Will Act?
By Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management and Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
September, 2006
Building Trust: Private-Public Collaboration on a National and International Scale
By Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management
September, 2006
A Nation Forewarned: Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure in the Twenty-First Century
By Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management
September, 2006
Where Private Efficiency Meets Public Vulnerability: The Critical Infrastructure Challenge
By Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management and Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
December, 2003
The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism
By Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management
October, 2003
Start-Ups and Spin-Offs: Collective Entrepreneurship Between Invention and Innovation
By Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management and Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
September 2000
Managing the Pentagon's International Relations
By Dr. Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall, Former Founding Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project, Christiana Briggs and Anja Miller
Chapter in Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
January 17, 2008
Ruthless Humanitarianism
By Doug Brooks and Matan Chorev, Former Executive Director, Future of National Security Project
Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies. Given the centrality of control over the use of coercive force to the functioning and identity of the modern state, and to international order, these developments clearly are of great practical and conceptual interest.
This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of PMSCs: what they are, why they have emerged in their current form, how they operate, their current and likely future military, political, social and economic impact, and the moral and legal constraints that do and should apply to their operation. The book focuses firstly upon normative issues raised by the development of PMSCs, and then upon state regulation and policy towards PMSCs, examining finally the impact of PMSCs on civil-military relations. It takes an innovative approach, bringing theory and empirical research into mutually illuminating contact. Includes contributions from experts in IR, political theory, international and corporate law, and economics, and also breaks important new ground by including philosophical discussions of PMSCs.
