Brookings Institution Press: 357 books
Catalyzing Development
A New Vision for Aid
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Some may dispute the effectiveness of aid. But few would disagree that aid delivered to the right source and in the right way can help poor and fragile countries develop. It can be a catalyst, but not a driver of development. Aid now operates in an arena with new players, such as middle-income countries,...
The G-20 Summit at Five
Time for Strategic Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Can the G-20 become a steering committee for the world's economy? Launched at a moment of panic triggered by the financial crisis in late 2008, the leaders' level G-20 is trying to evolve from crisis committee for the world economy to a real steering group facilitating international economic cooperation.
What...
The Citizen-Soldier
Moral risk and the modern military
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
In this Brookings Essay titled The Citizen-Soldier,” National Book Award winner, and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Phil Klay sheds light on the tension and relationship between veterans and society. Klay is an established author and has previously received noteworthy praise for his book, Redeployment....
The Changing Face of the Heartland
Preparing America's Diverse Workforce for Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
As baby boomers retire over the coming decades, one of the big questions facing the American economy is whether the younger, more diverse generation will be prepared to fill the demands of the workforce. In the next Brookings Essay, Jennifer Bradley, founding director of the new Aspen Institute Center...
Bit Player
My Life with Presidents and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
An insightful, often humorous look at how Washington works, or doesn't
The title Bit Player perfectly reflects Stephen Hess's long and distinguished career as a Washington insider. As a 25-year-old, recently discharged Army private in 1958, he suddenly found himself as part of President...
by Will Moreland
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
How the United States helped restore a Europe battered by World War II and created the foundation for the postwar international order
Seventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the United States did something almost unprecedented in world history: It launched and paid for an economic aid...
by Robert G. Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The digital revolution has forever changed American journalism, and not for the better. Robert Kaiser, former managing editor of The Washington Post, writes in his new Brookings Essay that the changing media landscape is not only a threat to traditional news, but to the future of democracy. A news...
Global Leadership in Transition
Making the G20 More Effective and Responsive
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Global Leadership in Transition calls for innovations that would "institutionalize" or consolidate the G20, helping to make it the global economy's steering committee. The emergence of the G20 as the world's premier forum for international economic cooperation presents an opportunity to...
Back to the Future
Advanced Nuclear Energy and the Battle Against Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
The Golden Age of nuclear energy in the United States has passed, and the accidents, if not disasters, at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima have damaged nuclear power’s rise in some parts of the world. And yet today, as Third Way’s Josh Freed illuminates in the latest Brookings Essay,...
The Prince of Counterterrorism
Washington's favorite Saudi, Muhammad bin Nayef, is the scourge of al-Qaida and Iran but no friend of those who want to see major reforms in the kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
In The Prince of Counterterrorism, Brookings Senior Fellow Bruce Riedel tells the story of Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef (MBN) and his contributions to the security of the kingdom and the Arab world. In the spring of 2015, King Salman removed his brother from the line of...
A Deadly Triangle
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
An eminent historian looks to the present and future of Afghanistan as the U.S. withdraws from the longest war in its history. THE BROOKINGS ESSAY: In the spirit of its commitment to high-quality, independent research, the Brookings Institution has commissioned works on major topics of public policy...
The Rhyme of History
Lessons of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
As the 100th anniversary of World War I approaches, historian Margaret MacMillan compares current global tensions-rising nationalism, globalization’s economic pressures, sectarian strife, and the United States’ fading role as the world’s pre-eminent superpower-to the period preceding the Great...
The Big Snoop
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
When Edward Snowden hit the send button on a laptop in Hong Kong in June 2013, just shy of his 30th birthday, he became the poster boy for an acutely American conundrum: the tension between the government’s constitutional commitment to the privacy of individuals and its responsibility for the safety...
The Promise
The Families of Sandy Hook and the Long Road to Gun Safety
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Bennett chronicles the attempts of the families with children who were shot at Sandy Hook Elementary to change gun laws and explains why it is so difficult to pass effective legislation to limit gun sales. THE BROOKINGS ESSAY: In the spirit of its commitment to high-quality, independent research,...