WORKING PAPERS
June, 2004
Science for Local Needs? Research and Policy Implications of National and International Malaria Efforts
By Smita Srinivas, Former Joint Research Associate with the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Science, Environment, and Development (SED) Group, Center for International Development, 2005-2006
February, 2004
Financing IGCC - 3Party Covenant
By William Rosenberg, Senior Research Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
November 2003
Scaling Up Biomass Gasifier Use: Applications, Barriers and Interventions
By Debyani Ghosh, Former Research Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, 2002-2005 and Ambuj D. Sagar, Former Visiting Scholar, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group (ETIP), June 2009; Former Research Fellow, ETIP, 1996-2002; Former Senior Research Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2007-2008
Biomass resources account for about 11% of the global primary energy supply - their contribution is even greater, and hence particularly important, in developing countries.
October 2003
"Federalization of Foreign Relations: Discussing Alternatives for the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict"
By Bruno Coppieters, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, Caspian Studies Program and Intrastate Conflict Program, 2003-2004, Tamara Kovziridze and Uwe Leonardy
"...Leaders of the Georgian, Abkhaz, and Ossetian national movements even consider Soviet federalism to be one of the main causes of the exacerbation of ethnic conflicts in Georgia and are not eager to reinstitute a federal structure. From the Georgian perspective, the Moscow leadership used federalism as an instrument to divide and rule and weaken the Georgian movement for national independence. From the Abkhaz and South Ossetian perspectives, Soviet federalism has put the various national communities in a hierarchical relation toward each other. This kind of ethnic stratification runs contrary to the principle of national self-determination, which pre-supposes the equality of all national communities. The exacerbation of ethnic conflicts in Georgia during the first half of the 1990s and the failure of existing federal arrangements to address these problems led to war in South Ossetia and then in Abkhazia. These wars resulted in the creation of two de facto states in these regions...."
2003
"Women in the Northern Ireland Peace Process: A Novel Use of Expected Utility in Bridging the Gap between the Quantitative Scholars and the Policy Pundits"
By Marie Besançon, Former Associate, International Security Program/Initiative on Religion and International Affairs, 2008; Research Fellow, ISP, 2006–2007; ISP/Governance Initiative in the Middle East, 2005–2006; Intrastate Conflict Program, 2003–2006; ISP/WAPPP, 2002–2003
Beginning the process of bridging the gap between the quantitative scholars and the policy community, I draw on an expected utility model to analyze the perceptions that the various parties in Northern Ireland have of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition and to assess the effectiveness of their strategy toward achieving disarmament in the peace process.
January, 2003
Information, Institutions and Governance: Advancing a Basic Social Science Research Program for Digital Government
January, 2003
Electronic Government and Electronic Democracy
By Jane Fountain, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the National Center for Digital Government
October 2002
The Role of Government in Technology Innovation: Insights for Government Policy in the Energy Sector
This volume presents insights for the design of government policy to promote technology innovation in the energy sector. These insights are based on a comparative analysis of the history of government involvement in four sectors (computers and electronics, agricultural biotechnology, industrial chemicals and the power sector) as well as an analysis of government’s historic role in defense and civilian technology innovation.
October, 2002
The Role of Government In Technology Innovation: Insights for Government Policy in the Energy Sector
