Brookings Institution Press: 357 books
The Law and Politics of Engaging De Facto States
Injecting New Ideas for an Enhanced EU Role
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The secessionist entities that emerged out of the turbulent upheavals in the 1990s in the South Caucasus have, over many years and with enormous external assistance, successfully defied the jurisdiction of their metropolitan states. As entities that have attained a status of de facto statehood, they...
America's Challenge
Engaging a Rising China in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The emergence of the People's Republic of China on the world scene constitutes the most significant event in world politics since the end of World War II. As the world's predominant political, economic, and military power, the United States faces a particularly significant challenge in responding...
Let Their People Come
Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
In Let Their People Come, Lant Pritchett discusses five "irresistible forces" of global labor migration, and the "immovable ideas" that form a political backlash against it. Increasing wage gaps, different demographic futures, "everything but labor" globalization, and...
Identification Revolution
Can Digital ID be Harnessed for Development?
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Some 600 million children worldwide do not legally exist. Without verifiable identification, they-and unregistered adults-could face serious difficulties in proving their identity, whether to open a bank account, purchase a SIM card, or cast a vote. Lack of identification is a barrier to full economic...
Asia on the Move
Regional Migration and the Role of Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Globalization has led to a surge in crossborder migration, and the population of international migrants in East Asia has more than doubled over the past two decades. Today, governments in the region are grappling with these expanding and increasingly complex flows of people as well as the human security...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Turkey, with a robust modern economy and growing energy needs, is pursuing a switch to nuclear power. But that shift is occurring in an environment fraught with security challenges: Turkey borders Iraq, Syria, and Iran-all states with nuclear or WMD ambitions or capabilities. As a NATO member, Turkey...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Yemen is facing a unique confluence of crises. A civil war in the North, a secessionist movement in the South, and a resurgence of al Qaeda are unfolding against the background of economic collapse, insufficient state capacity, and governance and corruption issues.
The security challenges are...
by Nathan J. Brown, Amr Hamzawy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In recent decades, Islamist political movements in many Arab countries have strategically invested in a political process that was stacked heavily against them. And, to the surprise of many, they have actually succeeded by gaining more seats in parliaments and demonstrating their position as the only...
Achieving an AIDS Transition
Preventing Infections to Sustain Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Five million people in poor countries are receiving AIDS treatment, but international AIDS policy is still in crisis. Donors are giving less than they had been, even though infections continue unabated, and the number of people dependent on treatment rises each year.
This book proposes a feasible...
Managing the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
Perspectives, Policies, and Practices from Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Asia must be at the center of the global fight against climate change. It is the world’s most populous region, with high economic growth, a rising share of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the most vulnerability to climate risks. Its current resource- and emission-intensive growth pattern is...
What's In, What's Out
Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Vaccinate children against deadly pneumococcal disease, or pay for cardiac patients to undergo lifesaving surgery? Cover the costs of dialysis for kidney patients, or channel the money toward preventing the conditions that lead to renal failure in the first place? Policymakers dealing with the realities...
by Chung Min Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Asia has already risen by most hard-power measures. But without an understanding of the downsides of Asia’s rise, the conventional narrative is incomplete, misleading, and inaccurate. Chung Min Lee explores the fundamental dichotomy that defines contemporary Asia. While the region has been an unparalleled...
Global Agriculture and the American Farmer
Opportunities for U.S. Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The United States is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of a range of agricultural commodities, and the largest provider of foreign assistance, so U.S. policies have big effects on global food security and other global public goods linked to agriculture. On the positive side of the...
From Day One
Why Supporting Girls Aged 0 to 10 Is Critical to Change Africa's Path
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The case for narrowing the gender gap is well established, and programs seeking to empower women in sub-Saharan Africa have multiplied. Yet a critical piece is missing: a focus on rural girls from zero to ten years old. Discrimination and social norms that penalize girls and women do not start at...