Brookings Institution Press imprint: 291 books
India Transformed
Twenty-Five Years of Economic Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
In this commemorative volume, India's top business leaders and economic luminaries come together to provide a balanced picture of the consequences of the country’s economic reforms, which were initiated in 1991. What were the reforms? What were they intended for? How have they affected the overall...
Divided Politics, Divided Nation
Hyperconflict in the Trump Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Why are Americans so angry with each other?
The United States is caught in a partisan hyperconflict that divides politicians, communities-and even families. Politicians from the president to state and local office-holders play to strongly-held beliefs and sometimes even pour fuel on the resulting...
Digital Schools
How Technology Can Transform Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Nearly a century ago, famed educator John Dewey said that "if we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow." That wisdom resonates more strongly than ever today, and that maxim underlies this insightful look at the present and future of education in the digital...
Creative Communities
Art Works in Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decisionmakers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable. Access to the arts inevitably appears high on that list, but knowledge about how culture and the arts can act as a tool of economic development is sadly lacking. This important...
by Lincoln A. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Explore the numerous paradoxes at the heart of the theory and practice of democracy promotion.
The Democracy Promotion Paradox raises difficult but critically important issues by probing the numerous inconsistencies and paradoxes that lie at the heart of the theory and practice of democracy...
Blind Spot
America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
A critical examination of the history of US-Palestinian relations
The United States has invested billions of dollars and countless diplomatic hours in the pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace and a two-state solution. Yet American attempts to broker an end to the conflict have repeatedly come...
Shaping the Emerging World
India and the Multilateral Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
India faces a defining period. Its status as a global power is not only recognized but increasingly institutionalized, even as geopolitical shifts create both opportunities and challenges. With critical interests in almost every multilateral regime and vital stakes in emerging ones, India has no choice...
What Works in Girls' Education
Evidence for the World's Best Investment
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their girls.
Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal...
China's Global Engagement
Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Assessing China's rapidly changing role on the international stage
China is again undergoing a period of significant transition. Internally, China's leaders are addressing challenges to the economy and other domestic issues after three decades of dramatic growth and reforms. President Xi Jinping...
Pakistan Under Siege
Extremism, Society, and the State
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Over the last fifteen years, Pakistan has come to be defined exclusively in terms of its struggle with terror. But are ordinary Pakistanis extremists? And what explains how Pakistanis think?
Much of the current work on extremism in Pakistan tends to study extremist trends in the country from...
The Terrorist Argument
Modern Advocacy and Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
From chants and pamphlets to the Internet, terrorist propaganda can be deadly effective
Propaganda used by terrorists and armed groups might not always be the most sophisticated or nuanced form of rhetoric, but with the right mix of emotion and logic it can be extremely effective in motivating...
Inside Out India and China
Local Politics Go Global
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
One third of humanity is governed by two capitals, New Delhi and Beijing. Increasingly, these two countries are being led not from the top down, but rather from the Inside Out.
In 2014, India overwhelmingly elected Narendra Modi minister, a man who rose to national prominence as chief minister...
Appalachian Legacy
Economic Opportunity after the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty. The following year he signed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, creating a state-federal partnership to improve the region's economic prospects through better job opportunities, improved human capital,...
The Arab Spring Five Years Later: Vol 2
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Volume 1 of The Arab Spring Five Years Later is based on extensive research conducted by scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including many associated with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The original research papers are gathered in volume 2 and are available for readers who...