RAND's divisions conduct research on a uniquely broad front for clients around the globe.
Research
Jan 1, 2010
This study investigates the role of national independence and women's political participation on population health using historical lifespan data from Norway.
Jan 1, 1990
Based on reports from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, this Note assesses the future of Danish and Norwegian security policies and the probable internal and external factors that will influence them.
Jan 1, 1989
Discusses the postwar course of Danish and Norwegian security policy, addressing the pattern of constraints at work in these countries' security consensuses.
There is inherent tension in Norwegian security policy because Norway depends absolutely on NATO reinforcements for both the deterrence of Soviet aggression and for defense if deterrence fails, yet it views the presence of Allied forces as potentially...
Jan 1, 1988
Discusses how certain factors — the history, international relations, physical characteristics, and the present balance of military forces of Northern Europe — have shaped the military environment of North Norway ...
Outlines the strategic importance of North Norway to the outcome of any future NATO/Warsaw Pact war on the basis of its location adjacent to the western Soviet heartland, the major Soviet bases on the Kola Peninsula, and the Norwegian Sea.
Jan 1, 1980
Provides a brief overview of policies and practices as observed in seven European NATO countries: Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), France, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom.
Expert Insights
Jan 1, 1979
European telephone systems have long used the periodic pulse system for billing subscriber-dialed long-distance (trunk) calls. By 1982 all of the six countries surveyed--Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and West Germany--will...
Jan 1, 1978
In telephone systems of Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and West Germany there are four categories of charges: installation fee, monthly subscription fee, local usage charges, and rates for trunk calls. Rates for local calls are bas...
Jan 1, 1977
Surveys principles of designing electricity rate structures and analyzes how utilities in England, France, Norway, and Sweden have established tariffs based on these principles.
Jan 1, 1973
Pressures working on defense structures of European NATO countries tend to favor a change to latent conscript forces oriented toward territorial defense on one hand, standing volunteer armies on the other.
