• Introduction. Chairman Xi remakes the PLA / Joel Wuthnow and Philip C. Saunders
• Part I: Drivers and strategic context. Breaking the Paradigm: Drivers Behind the PLA's Current Period of Reform / David M. Finkelstein ; Choosing the "Least Bad Option": Organizational Interests and Change in the PLA Ground Forces / John Chen ; The Impact of Xi-Era Reforms on the Chinese Navy / Ian Burns McCaslin and Andrew S. Erickson ; The Flag Lags but Follows: The PLA and China's Great Leap Outward / Andrew Scobell and Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
• Part II: Building a Joint Force. Toward a More Joint, Combat-Ready PLA? / Mark R Cozad ; Coming to a (New) Theater Near You: Command, Control, and Forces / Edmund J. Burke and Arthur Chan ; Handling Logistics in a Reformed PLA: The Long March Toward Joint Logistics / LeighAnn Luce and Erin Richter ; A Modern Major General: Building Joint Commanders in the PLA / Joel Wuthnow and Philip C. Saunders
• Part III: Overhauling Services. PLA Force Reductions: Impact on the Services / Daniel Gearin ; The Biggest Loser in Chinese Military Reforms: The PLA Army / Dennis J. Blasko ; Making Sense of China's Missile Forces / David C. Logan ; China's Strategic Support Force: A Force for a New Era / John Costello and Joe McReynolds
• Part IV: Centralizing Authority. Large and in Charge: Civil-Military Relations under Xi Jinping / Philip C. Saunders and Joel Wuthnow ; The New PLA Leadership: Xi Molds China's Military to His Vision / Joel McFadden, Kim Fassler, and Justin Godby
• Part V. Integrating with Society. Keeping Up with the Jundui: Reforming the Chinese Defense Acquisition, Technology, and Industrial System / Tai Ming Cheung ; Civil-Military Integration and PLS Reforms / Brian Lafferty ; System Overload? The 2015 PLA Force Reduction, Military-Locality Relations, and the Potential for Social Instability / Ma Chengkun and John Chen ; Conclusion: Assessing Chinese Military Reforms, Philip C. Saunders and Joel Wuthnow
• About the Contributors
• Index.

"China's current military reforms are unprecedented in their ambition and in the scale and scope of the organizational changes. Virtually every part of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) now reports to different leaders, has had its mission and responsibilities changed, has lost or gained subordinate units, or has undergone a major internal reorganization. Drawing upon papers presented at two conferences co-organized by the U.S. National Defense University, RAND, and Taiwan's Council of Advanced Policy Studies, this edited volume brings together some of the world's best experts on the Chinese military to analyze the various dimensions of the reforms in detail and assess their implications for the PLA's ability to conduct joint operations, for the Chinese Communist Party's control of the army, and for civil-military integration. The contributors review the drivers and strategic context underpinning the reform effort, explore the various dimensions of PLA efforts to build a force capable of conducting joint operations, consider the implications for the PLA services, and examine Xi Jinping's role in driving the reforms through and using them to strengthen control over the military. The chapters chronicle successes and outstanding problems in the reform effort and consider what the net effect will be as the PLA strives to become a "world-class" military by mid-century, if not much sooner."--Page 4 of cover.

Welcome to the House of European History, an initiative of the European Parliament. The purpose of the permanent exhibition is to offer visitors an outline of European history. The different topics are not presented according to national boundaries, but instead depict the main processes and phenomena that have united and divided Europeans through time. Perspectives on specific historic events are, of course, multiple. That is why a number of recurring questions underpin the displays. How does memory shape different visions of the past: How does history influence our lives today? What does the past tell us when we look ahead? In the exhibition you will not find ready-made answers. Instead, you are invited always to keep a critical eye, and to engage in the public conversation about Europe's past and its implications for the present and the future.

Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. Robert W. Cherny's masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artist's work with his increasingly leftist politics and the tenor of his times. Delving into sources on Russian emigres and San Francisco's arts communities, Cherny traces Arnautoff's life from refugee art student and assistant to Diego Rivera to prominence in the New Deal's art projects and a faculty position at Stanford University. As Arnautoff's politics moved left, he often incorporated working people and people of color into his treatment of the American past and present. In the 1950s, however, his participation in leftist organizations and a highly critical cartoon of Richard Nixon landed him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and led to calls for his dismissal from Stanford. Arnautoff eventually departed America, a refugee of another kind, now fleeing personal loss and the disintegration of the left-labor culture that had nurtured him, before resuming his artistic career in the Soviet Union that he had fought in his youth to destroy.
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• Foreword / Esther L. George
• Introduction / Troy Davig
• The moderators : Peter Blair Henry, Kristin J. Forbes
• Opening remarks / Janet L. Yellen
• Pass-through efficiency in the Fed's new monetary policy setting / Darrell Duffie, Arvind Krishnamurthy ; Commentary / Minouche Shafik
• The case for unencumbering interest rate policy at the zero bound / Marvin Goodfriend ; Commentary / Marianne Nessén
• Evaluating monetary policy operational frameworks / Ulrich Bindseil ; Commentary / Jean-Pierre Danthine ; Commentary / Simon Potter
• Luncheon address : Fiscal policy, monetary policy and central bank independence / Christopher A. Sims
• The Federal Reserve's balance sheet as a financial-stability tool / Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein ; Commentary / Randall S. Kroszner
• Funding quantitative easing to target inflation / Ricardo Reis ; Commentary / Laura L. Veldkamp
• Overview panel : The case for emerging market economies / Agustín Carstens
• The ECB's operational framework in post-crisis times / Benoît Coeuré
• Re-anchoring inflation expectations via 'quantitative and qualitative monetary easing with a negative interest rate' / Haruhiko Kuroda.

• Foreword / Esther L. George
• Introduction / Jonathan L. Willis
• The moderators
• James Poterba, Erica L. Groshen
• Customer markets and financial frictions: implications for inflation dynamics / Simon Gilchrist, Egon Zakrajšek
• Commentary / Peter J. Klenow
• The international price system / Gita Gopinath
• Commentary / Charles Engel
• The impact of international spillovers on inflation dynamics and independent monetary policy: the Swiss experience / Thomas J. Jordan
• Inflation dynamics: lessons from past debates for current policy / Athanasios Orphanides
• Inflation dynamics in Latin America: a comparison with global trends and implications for monetary policy / Rodrigo Vergara
• Luncheon address / David Daokui Li
• The myth of normal: the bumpy story of inflation and monetary policy / Jon Faust, Eric M. Leeper
• Commentary / Takatoshi Ito
• Inflation during and after the zero lower bound / S. Borağan Aruoba, Frank Schorfheide
• Commentary / Lucrezia Reichlin
• Inflation in a globalized world / Mark Carney
• Understanding inflation dynamics and monetary policy / Vítor Constâncio
• U.S. inflation developments / Stanley Fischer
• The political economy of inflation dynamics / Raghuram Rajan
• General discussion
• The participants.

• Introduction
• A history of foreign internal defense and the indirect approach
• Modern warfare and international humanitarian law
• Ethical and legal considerations in training surrogate forces
• U.S. Special Operations Command doctrine on human rights and IHL
• Joint combined exchange training
• The Leahy law
• Peru and the Rondas Campesinas
• Columbia and the Self-Defense Forces
• The U.S. indirect approach in El Salvador
• The U.S. experience in Iraq
• Conclusions and recommendations.

"[This book] leverages the author's vast experience in Latin American history to examine how the U.S. Special Operations Forces (USSOF) train surrogate forces. He argues that it is necessary to employ Untied States Special Operations Command's (USSOCOM) indirect approach to grow and build partnership capacity through foreign internal defense (FID) and to find a balance with international humanitarian law (IHL). Paterson also examines the legal issues and restrictions on training and equipping foreign forces and the impact of these exchanges with our partners. His research methodology includes extensive interviews and incorporates a historical case study approach, examining FID efforts in Peru, Colombia, and El Salvador for lessons learned, and then compares and contrasts USSOF train-and-equip efforts in Iraq" -- foreword.

• Introduction : navies are not just for fighting / by Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine
• Sailors and slaves : USS Constellation and the transatlantic slave trade / by John Pentangelo
• Overwhelming force and the Venezuelan crisis of 1902-1903 / by Henry J. Hendrix
• Starvation blockade and Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1914-1919 / by Bruce A. Elleman
• The Allied embargo of Japan, 1939-1941 : from rollback to deterrence to boomerang / by S.C.M. Paine
• After the fall of South Vietnam : humanitarian assistance in the South China Sea / by Jan K. Herman
• Continuing to serve : deploying naval vessels as artificial reefs / by Tom Williams
• Naval sonars, strandings, and responsible stewardship of the seas / by Darlene R. Ketten
• U.S. Coast Guard response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill / by Mary Landry
• Deep blue diplomacy : soft power and China's antipiracy operations / by Andrew S. Erickson and Austin M. Strange
• Conclusions : breaking the mold / by Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine.

"For well over two centuries, the U.S. Navy has engaged in an ever broader array of nonmilitary missions. Although a fundamental raison d'etre of navies concerns hard power, in the twentieth century an awareness of the uses of soft power developed. For example, since ancient times protecting against piracy has been a common naval problem, while since the mid-nineteenth century equally important patrol missions, such as attempts to stop the illegal slave trade, have been conducted by the U.S. Navy. After the Cold War, many other nonmilitary missions became important, in particular maritime humanitarian-aid missions like the post-tsunami Operation Unified Assistance in Southeast Asia during 2004-2005 ... this volume presents nine historical case studies examining the use of navies in nonmilitary missions"--Preface.

• Introduction: The PLA and contingency planning in China / Phillip C. Saunders
• I. Thinking and Planning for Contingencies. The PLA and contingency planning / Mark Cozad
• PLA observations of U.S. contingency planning: what has it learned? / Marcelyn L. Thompson
• China plans for internal unrest: People's Armed Police and Public Security approaches to "mass incidents" / Jonathan Walton
• Civilian authorities and contingency planning in China / Catherine Welch
• Converting the potential to the actual: Chinese mobilization policies and planning / Dean Cheng
• Employment of national-level PLA assets in a contingency: a cross-Strait conflict as case study / Mark A. Stokes
• II. Domestic Contingencies. China's armed forces respond to internal disaster relief: assessing mobilization and effort / Jeffrey Engstrom and Lyle Morris
• PLA response to widespread internal unrest in the Han homeland / Ma Chengkun
• III. Border Contingencies. The PLA and cross-border contingencies in North Korea and Burma / Thomas Woodrow
• PLA contingency planning and the case of India / Larry M. Wortzel
• Like a good neighbor: Chinese intervention through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization / Ben Lowsen
• IV. Maritime Contingencies. The PLA and near seas maritime sovereignty disputes / Alexander Chieh-cheng Huang
• The PLA and far seas contingencies: Chinese capabilities for noncombatant evacuation operations / Michael S. Chase
• PLA Navy planning for out of are deployments / Kristen Gunness and Samuel K. Berkowitz.

How will China use its increasing military capabilities in the future? China faces a complicated security environment with a wide range of internal and external threats. Rapidly expanding international interests are creating demands for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to conduct new missions ranging from protecting Chinese shipping from Somali pirates to evacuating citizens from Libya. The most recent Chinese defense white paper states that the armed forces must "make serious preparations to cope with the most complex and difficult scenarios...so as to ensure proper responses...at any time and under any circumstances." Based on a conference co-sponsored by Taiwan's Council of Advanced Policy Studies, RAND, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and National Defense University, [this book] brings together leading experts from the United States and Taiwan to examine how the PLA prepares for a range of domestic, border, and maritime contingencies. The book includes chapters on how the PLA, domestic security forces, and the civilian government conduct contingency planning and how military commanders can draw upon national-level military assets and mobilize civilian resources to execute their plans. Substantive chapters assess PLA planning for potential domestic contingencies such as suppressing internal unrest, border contingencies involving India, Myanmar, North Korea, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, and maritime contingencies in both the near and the far seas. Authors also examine PLA preparations and performance in disaster relief, counterpiracy, and noncombatant evacuation operations. Improving PLA capabilities are giving Chinese leaders new options to respond to domestic and international crises, but the PLA still has significant limitations in projecting and sustaining power, especially in contested environments. -- Back cover.

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I. Immediate Accountability, 1790s-1920s
• Chapter 1. The Parameters of Openness and Executive Discretion, 1790-1860
• Chapter 2. The Civil War Origins of the FRUS Series, 1861-1868
• Chapter 3. The Death and Resurrection of FRUS, 1868-1876
• Chapter 4. The Contemporaneous FRUS, 1870-1905
• Chapter 5. Transition to a New Era, 1905-1920s
• Part II. Negotiating Responsible Historical Transparency, 1920s to Early 2000s
• Chapter 6. "The Necessary Limitations Upon Open Diplomacy," 1920-1945
• Chapter 7. "Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire," 1945-1957
• Chapter 8. Cold War Normalcy, 1958-1979
• Chapter 9. The Erosion of Transparency, 1978-1985
• Chapter 10. "A Civil War in the Department," 1986-1990
• Chapter 11. "Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable," 1990-1991
• Chapter 12. Implementing the FRUS Statute, 1992-2002
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Terms
• Abbreviations
• Stages in Creation of a Foreign Relations Volume
• Appendix A. Historical Foreign Relations Timeliness and Production Charts
• Appendix B. FRUS Production Chart, 1861-1935
• Appendix C. Supplemental Foreign Relations Submissions, 1869-1914
• Appendix D. Office Heads and Office Symbol Designations, 1919-2014
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index.

"Toward "Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable" explores the evolution of the Foreign Relations of the United States documentary history series from its antecedents in the early republic through the early 21st century implementation of its current mandate, the 1991 Foreign Relations statute. This book traces how policymakers and an expanding array of stakeholders translated values like "security," "legitimacy," and "transparency" into practice as they debated how to balance the government's obligation to protect sensitive information with its commitment to openness. Determining the "people's right to know" has fueled lively discussion for over two centuries, and this work provides important, historically informed perspectives valuable to policymakers and engaged citizens as that conversation continues"--Publisher's website.

• Foreword / Esther L. George
• Introduction / Troy Davig
• The routes into and out of the zero lower bound / Robert E. Hall
• Commentary / Hyun song Shin
• General discussion: The ins and outs of LSAPS / Arvind Krishnamurthy, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
• Commentary / Anil K. Kashyap
• General discussion: Monetary policy options and tools / Agustin Carstens
• The unconventional Chinese monetary policy in the global context / David Daokui Li
• Convergence and divergence in government bond markets: implications for monetary policy / Frank R. Smets
• General discussion
• Luncheon address: The global calculus of unconventional monetary policies / Christine Lagarde
• Luncheon discussion: Global liquidity: public and private -- / Jean-Pierre Landau
• Commentary / Claudio Borio
• General discussion: Dilemma not trilemma: the global financial cycle and monetary policy independence / Hélène Rey
• Commentary / Terrence J. Checki
• General discussion: Global aspects of unconventional monetary policies / Charles R. Bean
• Japan's unconventional monetary policy and initiatives toward ensuring stability of the global financial system / Haruhiko Kuroda
• Global dimensions of unconventional monetary policy: an eme perspective / Luiz A. Pereira Da Silva
• General discussion.

• Part One: Naval strategy. The new maritime strategy : the rest of the story
• The Navy's changing force paradigm
• Talking about sea control
• Command of the sea : an old concept resurfaces in a new form
• Navies and economic prosperity : the new logic of sea power
• Defense of the system : changing the geometry of great power competition
• Part Two: Naval aviation. The U.S. Navy's transition to jets
• The future of aircraft carriers
• Pigeon holes and paradigm shifts : getting the most out of unmanned aircraft
• Tales from the platform
• Part Three: Joint operations. Gettysburg and Midway : historical parallels in operational command
• Principles of jointness
• Slicing the onion differently : seapower and the levels of war
• Getting a grip on tailored deterrence : the world of conflict management
• Part Four: War gaming. The forms of warfare : integrating ethos and warfighting
• War-gaming network-centric warfare
• The epistemology of war gaming.

The purpose of this volume is to honor the work and thought of Robert C. Rubel, Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.). Since his retirement from the Navy, Robert (a.k.a. "Barney") Rubel has held senior positions in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies (CNWS), in the Naval War College, in Newport, Rhode Island -- first as deputy dean, then as chairman of the War Gaming Department, and finally (since 2006) as dean. During this period, not only has he presided effectively over a complex (and in many ways anomalous) institution, but he has found the time to create a substantial body of published writings about naval warfare and war, or strategy generally. In the process, he has quietly established himself as one of the Navy's most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. This volume brings together a selection of Rubel's short papers from over the last decade and a half. Viewed as a single body of thought, they gain in weight from being read and considered together. It is hoped, therefore, that this volume will provide a basis for a better and more enduring appreciation of Rubel's contribution to the intellectual capital of today's Navy.