Brookings Institution Press: 357 books
The Metropolitan Revolution
How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the...
Mr. Putin
Operative in the Kremlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Vladimir Putin has his own idealized view of himself as CEO of Russia, Inc.” But rather than leading a transparent public corporation, he runs a closed boardroom, not answerable to its stakeholders. Now that his corporation seems to be in crisis, with political protests marking Mr. Putin’s return...
The Believer
How an Introvert with a Passion for Religion and Soccer Became Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Leader of the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In The Believer, Will McCants tells the story of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS), a group so brutal and hardline that even al-Qaida deemed them too extreme. Baghdadi, an introverted religious scholar, with a passion for soccer, now controls large swaths of land...
Deadly Embrace
Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Pakistan and America have been gripped together in a deadly embrace for decades. For half a century American presidents from both parties pursued narrow short-term interests in Pakistan. This myopia actually backfired in the long term, helping to destabilize the political landscape and radicalizing...
by Thomas J. Main
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
What is the Alt-Right, and how will it affect America?
Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016 suddenly brought to prominence a political movement that few in political circles or the mainstream media had paid much attention to: the so-called Alt-Right. Steven Bannon, Trump's campaign...
Avoiding Armageddon
America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
India and Pakistan will be among the most important countries in the twenty-first century. In Avoiding Armageddon, Bruce Riedel clearly explains the challenge and the importance of successfully managing America's affairs with these two emerging powers and their toxic relationship.
Born from...
Dragon in the Tropics
Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics-the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chávez (19992013) revamped Venezuela’s political economy-examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez’s death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, to cope...
by Riordan Roett
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
The New Brazil tells the story of South America's largest country as it evolved from a remote Portuguese colony into a regional leader; a respected representative for the developing world; and, increasingly, an important partner for the United States and the European Union.
In this engaging...
The Eagle and the Trident
U.S.—Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The first detailed account of U.S. policy toward—and relations with—Ukraine, the second most critical country in the post-Soviet space.
More than a history, it explains where U.S. policy succeeded or failed, and why, and extracts lessons from the 1992-2004 period that can usefully shape Washington’s policy today.
Social Ethics in a Changing China
Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening?
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Over the past half-century, China has experienced some incredible human dramas, ranging from Red Guard fanaticism and the loss of education for an entire generation during the Cultural Revolution, to the Tiananmen tragedy, the economic miracle, and its accompanying fad of money worship and the rampancy...
The American Political Party System
Continuity and Change Over Ten Presidential Elections
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From party polarization, elections, and internal party politics, to the evolution of the U.S. presidency, John S. Jackson's new book has something for everyone interested in American politics. Beginning with a discussion of the creation of the U.S. government to the formation of today's political...
The Fog of Peace
A Memoir of International Peacekeeping in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
No small number of books laud and record the heroic actions of those at war. But the peacekeepers? Who tells their stories?
At the beginning of the 1990s, the world exited the cold war and entered an era of great promise for peace and security. Guided by an invigorated United Nations, the international...
Foreign Service
Five Decades on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
A behind the scenes look at 50 years of US diplomacy.
From Vietnam in the 1960s to Afghanistan in this decade, James Dobbins was on the frontlines of American diplomacy and worked to advance U.S. national interests in some of the world’s most difficult and troubled arenas.
In Foreign...
Political Negotiation
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The United States was once seen as a land of broad consensus and pragmatic politics. Sharp ideological differences were largely absent. But today politics in America is dominated by intense party polarization and limited agreement among legislative representatives on policy problems and solutions.
Americans...