Scowcroft Papers
The Scowcroft Institute has initiated a Scowcroft Papers series on issues of interest to policymakers and an informed public. The series covers four categories of publications: - Significant addresses delivered at the Bush School by visiting scholars and policy makers, - Academic papers by Scowcroft post-doctoral fellows and Bush School and Texas A&M faculty, - Papers presented at Scowcroft conferences and policy papers commissioned by the Scowcroft Institute from prominent experts on issues of the day, - Policy papers written by senior Scowcroft fellows, and links to research funded by the Scowcroft Institute and published in academic journals.
Recent Submissions
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(2017-09-27)The international higher education community is now confronting unprecedented challenges as it pursues ongoing federal support for its long-established programs. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the need for a ...
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(2017-02-28): In the mid-1990s two infectious disease outbreaks – Pneumonic Plague in Surat, India and Ebola in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) - caused great concern globally. At that time the standard communication ...
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(2017-02-28)We define Science Tikkun broadly as an added role for leading U.S. scientists to elevate the profile of their knowledge and findings, and educate leaders in the areas of government, business, religion, the military, the ...
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(2017-02-28)“A friend in Washington is someone who stabs you in the chest.” Brent Scowcroft sometimes tells this joke to break the ice when beginning a speech. The irony, though, is that Scowcroft has a great many friends and admirers. ...
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(2017-02-28)Quarantine will likely never be a comfortable experience for anyone, but there are concrete steps that can be taken to improve the experience and help shift perceptions of quarantine in the United States from punishment ...
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(2017-02-28)This report analyzes the migrant crisis which in 2015 tormented, and in 2016 continues to torment, Europe: what happened and why, and most importantly, the implications of the crisis for Europe and the EU, with a special ...
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(2017)It is impossible to talk about the role of the National Security Advisor without talking about Brent Scowcroft. It is fair to say that Henry Kissinger was the father of the “ inter-agency system” that is still with us ...
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(2017-02-27)In 2014 an Ebola epidemic swept through western Africa, killing tens of thousands of people. When a case of the virus appeared in Dallas, TX, the American public began to panic. There was concern that the disease would ...
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(2017-02-27)The purpose of this article is to compare the fundamental operative provisions of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) with the equivalent directives of European surveillance law in five representative ...