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By design, the scope of Behavioral Science & Policy is broad, with topics spanning health care, financial decisionmaking, energy and the environment, education and culture, justice and ethics, and work place practices.

Offers a behind-the-scenes account of the little-known role played by the US embassy in Prague in the collapse of communism in what was then Czechoslovakia. Featuring fifty-two newly declassified diplomatic cables, the book shows how the staff of the embassy worked with dissident groups and negotiated with the communist government.

Provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.

By design, the scope of Behavioral Science & Policy is broad, with topics spanning health care, financial decision-making, energy and the environment, education and culture, justice and ethics, and work place practices.

Offers a review of key cross-regional trends and critical policy issues involving the changing relationship between India and China and Latin America. Selected country case studies - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico - provide a more in-depth analysis of the implications of China's and India's evolving interaction with the region.

History, with its insights, analogies, and narratives, is central to the ways that the US interacts with the world. Historians and policymakers, however, rarely engage one another as effectively or fruitfully as they might. This book bridges that divide, bringing together leading scholars and policymakers to address the essential questions surrounding the history-policy relationship.

Following the global financial crisis of 2008, China's major monetary policy objective is the internationalization of the renminbi, that is, to create an international role for its currency akin to the international role currently played by the US dollar. This book deals with this topic.

Leading scholars and practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic discuss crucial developments in the field of migration and integration. They pay particular attention to security and economic challenges as Western countries struggle with upheavals in neighbouring countries, terrorism, and fiscal and financial crises.

Allegations of fraud have marred recent elections around the world, from Russia and Italy to Mexico and the United States. Such charges raise fundamental questions about the quality of democracy in each country.