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  The accompanying volume for the "Legacy Cities" Assembly was published in January 2012 and is available at Amazon.com [1]. Rebuilding America's Legacy Cities: New Directions for the Industrial Heartland features chapters by thirteen national and international leaders and thinkers on urban...
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"Copy Culture in the US and Germany" is survey-based study designed to bring public opinion to bear on vital policy conversation about the future of the Internet. The study explores what Americans and Germans do with digital media, what they want to do, and how they reconcile their attitudes a...
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"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening the...
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Many American cities have rebounded from their nadir a decade or two ago with healthier downtowns, neighborhoods and local economies. However, other cities with rich historical heritages and valuable resources for this nation’s future are experiencing severe population loss. This American A...
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Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia. Based on three years of work by some thirty-five researchers, Media Piracy in Emerg...
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A wide-ranging, in-depth, and pragmatic volume published in 2010 discussing the persistently divisive issues surrounding race in America. With a mixed-race president, a Latino population that is now the largest minority, and steadily growing Asian and African-American populations, race is b...
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Colin Kahl
Colin Kahl is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East. Dr. Kahl is on a three-year public service leave from Georgetown University, where he is a professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service focusing on international security, American foreign policy in the Middle East, and terrorism.   Colin is a Next Generation fellow and was on the leadership team -- and featured speaker -- for The Next Generation Project.