Brookings Institution Press: 357 books

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The Opportunity

Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms

by Steven Pifer, Michael E. O'Hanlon
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012

For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. But, as Brookings scholars Steven Pifer and Michael O'Hanlon argue in The Opportunity, arms control can address some key security challenges facing Washington...
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The $650 Billion Bargain

The Case for Modest Growth in America's Defense Budget

by Michael E. O'Hanlon
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016

U.S. defense spending isn’t excessive and, in fact, should continue to grow because it’s both affordable and necessary in today's challenging world. The United States spends a lot of money on defense-$607 billion in the current fiscal year. But Brookings national security scholar Michael...
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Kings and Presidents

Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR

by Bruce Riedel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019

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...
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From Summits to Solutions

Innovations in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018

A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen "Sustainable Development Goals," to be achieved by 2030. Each of the goals—in such areas as education and health...
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Enemy of the People

Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy

by Marvin Kalb
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018

Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an “enemy of the American people.” Attacks on the media had been a hallmark of Trump’s presidential campaign, but this charge marked a dramatic turning point: language like this ventured into dangerous...
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Bucharest Diary

Romania's Journey from Darkness to Light

by Moses
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018

An insider's account of Romania's emergence from communism control In the 1970s American attorney Alfred H. Moses was approached on the streets of Bucharest by young Jews seeking help to emigrate to Israel. This became the author's mission until the communist regime fell in 1989. Before that...
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Imperial Gamble

Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War

by Marvin Kalb
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015

Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine....
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Brain Gain

Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy

by Darrell M. West
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

Many of America's greatest artists, scientists, investors, educators, and entrepreneurs have come from abroad. Rather than suffering from the "brain drain" of talented and educated individuals emigrating, the United States has benefited greatly over the years from the "brain gain"...
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The Year I Was Peter the Great

1956—Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Young American in Russia

by Marvin Kalb
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia—and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents 1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called “the year of the thaw”—a time when Stalin’s dark legacy of dictatorship died...
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Dream Hoarders

How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

by Richard V. Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017

America is becoming a class-based society. It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent-especially the top 0.01 percent-and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important, consequential,...
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Circus Maximus

The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup

by Andrew Zimbalist
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015

Athletes compete for national honor in Olympic and World Cup games. But the road to these mega events is paved by big business. We all know who the winners on the field are-but who wins off the field? The numbers are staggering: China spent $40 billion to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games...
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No Slack

The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans

by Michael S. Barr
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012

The financial crisis exposed the potentially unsavory results of the interaction between low- and moderate income households and alternative and mainstream financial institutions. Many households were overleveraged or paid high costs for financial services, while others lacked access to useful financial...
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The New Localism

How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

by Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018

The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work. In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious...
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America's Political Dynasties

From Adams to Clinton

by Stephen Hess
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015

The Constitution states that "no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States," yet it seems political nobility is as American as apple pie. America was founded in rebellion against nobility and inherited status. Yet from the start, dynastic families have been conspicuous...
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