Research Library

This working paper analyzes the roots of Iran’s “dissonant” political system and revolutionary ideology, the fractious contest over defining and applying this ideology, and the implications of these struggles for Iranian foreign and security policy.

Fellow Ed Egan examines the outlook for high-growth, high-technology entrepreneurship in Texas for a House committee on investment and financial services.

Erika de la Garza, program director of the Latin America Initiative, reflects on President Obama's Cuba trip in light of her own visit to the island earlier this month.

High cancer drug prices reduce access to therapy, cause treatment abandonment and financial bankruptcies, as well as severe emotional and family distress.

As President Obama prepares for a historic visit to Havana, thousands of the island’s residents are rushing to immigrate to the U.S., hoping to beat the rumored end of a policy that lets Cubans who reach American soil remain here. Read Erika de la Garza’s take on the unsought consequences of reestablishing U.S. ties to Cuba.

Jennifer R. Herricks, postdoctoral fellow in disease and poverty, testified before the Texas House Committee on Public Health, urging the state to take the lead on developing a vaccine for the Zika virus.

An investment strategy that generates financial returns while directing funds to entities providing goods and services to the poor is making headway in Latin America.

How do dynamic analysis and dynamic scoring affect fiscal policymaking? Fellow John Diamond presents his views at a U.S. Joint Economic Committee hearing.

While the recent fiscal troubles in Greece have received much attention, the U.S. fiscal position is hardly comparable to that of Greece. However, the United States is experiencing, and will continue to experience, one of the fundamental economic costs of relatively large and persistent deficits.

Despite enviable increases in educational attainment, women in the MENA countries may fare less well in attaining a form of social capital integral to their ability to exercise full political, economic and social agency: wasta — loosely, clout, or using one’s connections and/or influence to get things done.