Brookings Institution Press: 357 books
Peace Through Entrepreneurship
Investing in a Startup Culture for Security and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Joblessness is the root cause of the global unrest threatening American security. Fostering entrepreneurship is the remedy.
The combined weight of American diplomacy and military power cannot end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of the world, Steven Koltai...
Made in Africa
Learning to Compete in Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Why is there so little industry in Africa?
Over the past forty years, industry has moved from the developed to the developing world, yet Africa’s share of global manufacturing has fallen from about 3 percent in 1970 to less than 2 percent in 2014. Industry is important to low-income countries....
Presidential Pork
White House Influence over the Distribution of Federal Grants
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Presidential earmarks? Perhaps even more so than their counterparts in Congress, presidents have the motive and the means to politicize spending for political power. But do they?
In Presidential Pork, John Hudak explains and interprets presidential efforts to control federal spending and accumulate...
by Amadou Sy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
A broad vision for economic progress in Africa
A more peaceful and prosperous Africa is in everyone’s interest. Such an Africa would translate into more trade and investment, more jobs, and more security for all. Africa is now at a crossroads and the right path, if taken, could lead the continent...
Open for Business
Building the New Cuban Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
An expert guide to Cuba’s economic opening to the outside world.
Ninety miles across the Straits of Florida, an exciting new revolution is afoot. This time, instead of guerillas marching down the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will upend Cuba. Now opening to the world, what...
Saving Europe
Anatomy of a Dream
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
In this gripping narrative, Carlo Bastasin reconstructs the main political decisions of the euro crisis, unveiling the hidden interests and the secret diplomacy behind the scene. The European dream was both the rejection of war and the creation of a new spirit of peaceful cooperation. Yet confrontation...
The Professor and the President
Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
What happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor from the Ivy League his top urban affairs adviser? The president is Richard Nixon, the professor is Harvard's Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Of all the odd couples in American public life, they are probably the oddest. Add another Ivy...
Advancing the Ugandan Economy
A Personal Account
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Internal conflicts, dictatorship, and economic disintegration characterized the first twenty-five years of Uganda's independence from British colonial rule, which culminated in the reign of Idi Amin and a violent civil war. The country has since achieved an astounding turnaround of stability and growth....
by Philippe Le Corre, Alain Sepulchre
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A portrait of China’s new economic passion toward Europe.
For years China’s international investment interests focused on a search for natural resources in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Recently China’s focus has shifted to Europe as well as the United States, and to new fields as...
Loan Sharks
The Birth of Predatory Lending
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Predatory lending: A problem rooted in the past that continues today.
Looking for an investment return that could exceed 500 percent annually; maybe even twice that much?
Private, unregulated lending to high-risk borrowers is the answer, or at least it was in the United States for much...
The Road to War
Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Not since Pearl Harbor has an American president gone to Congress to request a declaration of war. Nevertheless, since then, one president after another, from Truman to Obama, has ordered American troops into wars all over the world. From Korea to Vietnam, Panama to Grenada, Lebanon to Bosnia, Afghanistan...
Bending History
Barack Obama's Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
By the time of Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th president of the United States, he had already developed an ambitious foreign policy vision. By his own account, he sought to bend the arc of history toward greater justice, freedom, and peace; within a year he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,...
The Power of the Past
History and Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Leading scholars and policymakers explore how history influences foreign policy and offer insights on how the study of the past can more usefully serve the present.
History, with its insights, analogies, and narratives, is central to the ways that the United States interacts with the world....
by Stephen Breyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty
Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? In Against the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen G. Breyer argues that it does: that it is carried out unfairly and inconsistently, and thus violates the ban on "cruel and unusual...