Brookings Institution Press: 357 books
Constitution 3.0
Freedom and Technological Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, breathtaking changes in technology are posing stark challenges to our constitutional values. From free speech to privacy, from liberty and personal autonomy to the right against self-incrimination, basic constitutional principles are under stress from...
A Versatile American Institution
The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises. Foundations have a great deal of freedom, enjoy widespread legitimacy, and wield considerable influence. In this book, David Hammack and Helmut Anheier follow...
by Alice M. Rivlin
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In January 1970 Alice M. Rivlin spoke to an audience at the University of California-Berkeley. The topic was developing a more rational approach to decisionmaking in government. If digital video, YouTube, and TED Talks had been inventions of the 1960s, Rivlin's talk would have been a viral hit. As...
The Decline in Saving
A Threat to America's Prosperity?
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Longtime Brookings economist and former presidential adviser Barry Bosworth examines why saving rates in the United States have fallen so precipitously over the past quarter century, why the initial consequences were surprisingly benign, and how reduced saving will affect the future well-being of...
by Jung H. Pak
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
North Korea’s opaqueness combined with its military capabilities make the country and its leader dangerous wild cards in the international community. Brookings Senior Fellow Jung H. Pak, who led the U.S. intelligence community’s analysis on Korean issues, tells the story of North Korean leader...
My Ukraine
A Personal Reflection on a Nation's Independence and the Nightmare Vladimir Putin Has Visited Upon It
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, former Soviet republic Ukraine has struggled against its giant neighbor to the north”-Russia- to maintain its sovereignty. In early 2014 tensions turned to conflict as Vladimir Putin, determined to keep Ukraine from forging stronger ties with the...
Kings and Presidents
Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
An insider's account of the often-fraught U.S.-Saudi relationship
Saudi Arabia and the United States have been partners since 1943, when President Roosevelt met with two future Saudi monarchs. Subsequent U.S. presidents have had direct relationships with those kings and their successors—setting...
Beyond NATO
A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O’Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia. He believes NATO expansion has gone far enough....
Campaign 2012
Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy is an indispensable guide to the questions facing White House hopefuls in 2012, as well as the challenges awaiting the winner. It presents authoritative analyses of a dozen key policy issues currently testing the nation:
-domestic...
Closing the Deficit
How Much Can Later Retirement Help?
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
As the average age of the population continues to rise in industrialized nations, the fiscal impacts of aging demand ever-closer attention. Closing the Deficit examines one oft-discussed approach to the issue-encouraging people to work longer than they now do.
Workers would spend more years...
Getting to Scale
How to Bring Development Solutions to Millions of Poor People
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. Whether these succeed in having a transformative impact depends not just on their individual brilliance but on whether they can be brought to a scale where they reach...
The South Asia Papers
A Critical Anthology of Writings by Stephen Philip Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
This curated collection examines Stephen Philip Cohen’s impressive body of work.
Stephen Philip Cohen, the Brookings scholar who virtually created the field of South Asian security studies, has curated a unique collection of the most important articles, chapters, and speeches from his fifty-year...
The Water Problem
Climate Change and Water Policy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Building water resilience is the single biggest challenge in a changing global climate.
The United States faces a water crisis as critical as the energy crisis that once dominated headlines. Like the energy crisis, a solution can be found. Pat Mulroy, for many years general manager of the Southern...
Energy and Security in South Asia
Cooperation or Conflict?
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Economic growth and burgeoning populations have put South Asia's energy security in a perilous state. Already energy and power shortages are stunting development in some of the region's least developed locations spurring political insurgences and social dislocation. Should this trend continue, Ebinger...