Research Library

Turkey’s opposition parties have moderated their ideologies and coordinated strategies to collectively win more votes in the upcoming June elections, which could deal a blow to the ruling AKP, scholar Abdullah Aydogan writes for Carnegie Sada journal.

Fellow Joe Barnes blogs on the Trump administration's new approach to Iran, as laid out by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

CES senior director Ken Medlock testifies on the geopolitics of U.S. oil and gas competitiveness.

Fellow Mark P. Jones analyzes five key Republican congressional primary runoff races ahead of the May 22 primary election. The Hill:

This issue brief summarizes the debate over regulatory complexity, outlines a proposal from the Federal Reserve that would simplify bank capital regulations and another from the OCC that would push the financial regulatory system toward greater complexity, and recommends reforms to help improve financial stability.

Fellow Gabriel Collins examines seven different methods of valuing groundwater in Texas. Texas Water Journal: http://bit.ly/2GCKW4x.

For the first time this decade, Democrats have a realistic prospect of flipping more than one Republican-held U.S. House seat in Texas. Fellow Mark P. Jones discusses the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s targeted support for candidates it thinks have the best chance of winning.

Disease and poverty fellow Peter J. Hotez examines the rise of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Texas, arguing that the spread of diseases like chikungunya West Nile, Zika and Ebola has not occurred by accident but instead reflects rapidly evolving changes and shifts in a “new” Texas beset by modern and globalizating forces.

This working paper examines the lack of reliable data on the number and quality of drug treatment services in Harris County.

The authors offer seven policy recommendations to end the opioid crisis.