Brookings Institution Press: 357 books
by ADBI
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This report analyzes how closer regional connectivity and economic integration between South Asia and Southeast Asia can benefit both regions, with a focus on the role played by infrastructure and public policies in facilitating this process. It examines major developments in South AsianSoutheast...
The Governor's Solution
How Alaska's Oil Dividend Could Work in Iraq and Other Oil-Rich Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Reliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance, corruption, and poverty. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake.
The Governor's Solution features...
Results Not Receipts
Counting the Right Things in Aid and Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. Agency for International Development supported the Afghan Ministry of Public Health to deliver basic healthcare to 90 percent of the population, at a cost of $4.50 a head. The program played a vital role in improving the country's health; the...
ASEAN 2030
Toward a Borderless Economic Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This book investigates long-term development issues for members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It finds that with the proper policy mix-including domestic structural reforms and bold initiatives for regional integration-ASEAN has the potential to reach by 2030 the average quality...
by Martha Brill Olcott
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Tajikistan teeters on the brink of failure. This mountainous and landlocked country, the poorest in Central Asia, confronts the challenges of good governance and economic survival. These domestic struggles become even more problematic as international forces prepare to withdraw from neighboring Afghanistan,...
Looking for Leadership
The Dilemma of Political Leadership in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Democratic leaders around the world are finding it increasingly difficult to exercise strong leadership and maintain public support. However, there is nowhere that this has proven to be as challenging of a task as Japan, which has seen its top leaders change more often over the past 25 years than...
Perilous Desert
Insecurity in the Sahara
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the region's most fragile states, exploiting widespread corruption, weak government capacity, crushing poverty, and entrenched social and ethnic tensions....
Advancing the Rule of Law Abroad
Next Generation Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
In the modern era, political leaders and scholars have declared the rule of law to be essential to democracy, a necessity for economic growth, and a crucial tool in the fight for security at home and stability abroad. The United States has spent billions attempting to catalyze rule-of-law improvements...
Development Aid Confronts Politics
The Almost Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process is driving aid providers to try to learn how to think and act politically.
Major donors are pursuing explicitly political goals alongside...
by Martha Brill Olcott
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
In Uzbekistan, Central Asia's most populous country, Islam has been an ever-present factor in the lives of its people and a contentious force for political officials trying to build a secular and authoritarian government.
In the Whirlwind of Jihad examines the intertwined and evolving relationships...
Getting to Pluralism
Political Actors in the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Pluralism in the Arab world has not yet matured into functional democratic politics. While ruling establishments, Islamist movements, and secular parties have introduced a much greater degree of pluralism into Arab societies, the imbalance of power and interdependence among these actors limits both...
Hard Diplomacy and Soft Coercion
Russia's Influence Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
During the Cold War, Soviet influence and Leninist ideology were inseparable. But the collapse of both systems threw Russian influence into limbo. In this book, James Sherr draws on his in-depth study of the country over many years to explain and analyse the factors that have brought Russian influence...
The Fight for Influence
Russia in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Russian influence in Central Asia is waning. Since attaining independence, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have forged their own paths-building relationships with outside powers and throwing off the last vestiges of Soviet domination. But in many ways, Moscow still...
Lonely Power
Why Russia Has Failed to Become the West and the West is Weary of Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Adapted from the Russian edition, this book analyzes the dominant stereotypes and myths that formed during the Putin presidency and that continue to hamper our understanding of Russia's current situation.
Author Lilia Shevtsova explains the origins of such political clichés as
Russia...