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RAND has opened its archives for the following publications and resources:

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  Perspective—The Flaring of Intellectual Outliers: An Organizational Interpretation of the Generation of Novelty in the RAND Corporation2015

  Mie Augier, James G. March, Andrew W. Marshall

  Organization Science, Published online in Articles in Advance, April 17, 2015

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  Organizing Complexity: The Hopeful Dreams and Harsh Realities of Interdisciplinary Collaboration at the RAND Corporation in the Early Cold War2014

  Daniel Bessner

  In “Cross-Disciplinary Research Ventures in Postwar Social Science,” edited by Philippe Fontaine, Special Issue, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

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  Weimar Social Science in Cold War America: The Case of the Political-Military Game2014

  Daniel Bessner

  In “More Atlantic Crossings?: The Postwar Atlantic Community,” edited by Jan Logemann and Mary Nolan, Special Issue, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 54, Bulletin Supplement 10 (2014): 91–109

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  Thinking Through the Cold War: RAND, National Security, and Domestic Policy, 1945–19752013

  David Jardini

  Amazon Digital Services LLC

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  The RAND Corporation (1989–2009): The Reconfiguration of Strategic Studies in the United States2012

  Jean-Loup Samaan, Renuka George (Translator)

  Palgrave Macmillan

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  Learning Secrecy in the Early Cold War: The RAND Corporation2011

  Janet Farrell Brodie

  Diplomatic History, Volume 35, Issue 4, September 2011

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  The Four Pillars of High Performance: How Robust Organizations Achieve Extraordinary Results2005

  Paul C. Light

  McGraw-Hill

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  From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America2003

  Jennifer S. Light

  Johns Hopkins University Press

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  Cold War Laboratory: RAND, the Air Force, and the American State2002

  Martin J. Collins

  Smithsonian Institution Press

• The RAND Corporation and the Dynamics of American Strategic Thought, 1946–19621998

  Andrew David May

  Dissertation, History Department, Emory University

• The Cold War, RAND, and the Generation of Knowledge, 1946–19621997

  David Hounshell

  Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 27(2): 237–267

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  History & Strategy1991

  Marc Trachtenberg

  Princeton University Press

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  The RAND Corporation: Case Study of a Nonprofit Advisory Corporation1966

  Bruce L. R. Smith

  Harvard University Press

Other Resources

• Oral History Project1985–1990

  Conducted within the Department of Space History, National Air and Space Museum