Brookings Institution Press: 357 books
by Lester M Salamon
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Today, America's nonprofit organizations seem caught in a force field, buffeted by four impulses-voluntarism, professionalism, civic activism, and commercialism. Too little attention, however, has been paid to the significant tensions among these impulses. Understanding this force field and the factors...
Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls Through Education
Empowering Girls Through Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal Societies
Since 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna...
Singapore
Smart City, Smart State
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
How Singapore’s solutions to common problems can provide examples for other societies.
Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and competitive, advanced economies in the world. But can this unique citystate of some 5.5 million residents also serve...
Asia in Washington
Exploring the Penumbra of Transnational Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states. Key powers have included at various times Great Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia (then the U.S.S.R., and then Russia again), and the nation most influential in international relations for the past...
Militants, Criminals, and Warlords
The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the legitimate source of order and provider of public services in any society, whether democratic or not. But Hezbollah and ISIS in the Middle East, pirate clans in Africa, criminal gangs in South America, and militias in Southeast Asia...
India at the Global High Table
The Quest for Regional Primacy and Strategic Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
An integrated picture of India's global vision, its foreign policy, and the negotiating practices that link the two.
In recent decades, India has grown as a global power, and has been able to pursue its own goals in its own way. Negotiating for India's Global Role gives an insightful and integrated...
Shooting for a Century
The India-Pakistan Conundrum
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The rivalry between India and Pakistan has proven to be one of the world's most intractable international conflicts, ever since 1947 when the British botched their departure from the South Asian subcontinent. And the enmity is likely to continue for another thirty-five years, reaching the century...
Diversity Explosion
How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
At its optimistic best, America has embraced its identity as the world's melting pot. Today it is on the cusp of becoming a country with no racial majority, and new minorities are poised to exert a profound impact on U.S. society, economy, and politics. The concept of a "minority white" may instill...
The Thistle and the Drone
How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States declared war on terrorism. More than ten years later, the results are decidedly mixed. Here world-renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed reveals an important yet largely ignored result of this war: in many nations it has exacerbated the...
What We Won
America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 197989
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
In February 1989, the CIA's chief in Islamabad famously cabled headquarters a simple message: "We Won." It was an understated coda to the most successful covert intelligence operation in American history.
In What We Won, CIA and National Security Council veteran Bruce Riedel tells...
The Siberian Curse
How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society? Why have so many reforms failed since the Soviet Union's collapse? In this highly-original work, Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy argue that Russia's geography, history, and monumental mistakes perpetrated by Soviet planners have locked...
The Politics and Civics of National Service
Lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's...
Means to an End
U.S. Interest in the International Criminal Court
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
The International Criminal Court remains a sensitive issue in U.S. foreign policy circles. It was agreed to at the tail end of the Clinton administration, but with serious reservations. In 2002 the Bush administration ceremoniously reversed course and "unsigned" the Rome Statute that had...
The Sovereignty Wars
Reconciling America with the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Now in paperback-with a new preface by the author
Americans have long been protective of the country’s sovereignty-all the way back to George Washington who, when retiring as president, admonished his successors to avoid permanent alliances with foreign powers. Ever since, the nation...