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  • Climatic Cataclysmby Kurt M. Campbell

    Brookings Institution Press 2008; US$ 29.95

    Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability as well. Climatic Cataclysm gathers experts on climate science, oceanography, history, political science, foreign policy, and national security to take the measure of these risks.The contributors have developed three scenarios of what the... more...

  • Arab Society in Revoltby Cesare Merlini; Olivier Roy

    Brookings Institution Press 2012; US$ 28.95

    For every pithy conceptualization of complex events, there are additional lenses through which to examine them. One of the several virtues of this book is precisely that it brings different perspectives to bear on the complexity, diversity, and uncertainty of recent and current events in the Arab world. The thirteen authors concentrate on the critical... more...

  • Healing the Wounded Giantby Michael E. O'Hanlon

    Brookings Institution Press 2013; US$ 19.95

    President Barack Obama survived a tenuous economy and a toxic political environment to win re-election in 2012, but the bitter partisan divide in Washington survived as well. So did the country's huge fiscal deficit. in this, the latest in a long line of Brookings Institution analyses of the defense budget, Michael O'Hanlon considers how best to balance... more...

  • Open Budgetsby Sanjeev Khagram; Archon Fung; Paolo de Renzio

    Brookings Institution Press 2013; US$ 29.95

    Decisions about "who gets what, when, and how" are perhaps the most important that any government must make. So it should not be remarkable that around the world, public officials responsible for public budgeting are facing demands?from their own citizenry, other government officials, economic actors, and increasingly from international sources?to... more...

  • The Metropolitan Revolutionby Bruce Katz; Jennifer Bradley

    Brookings Institution Press 2013; US$ 29.95

    A revolution is stirring in America. Across the nation cities and metropolitan areas, and the networks of pragmatic leaders who govern them, are taking on the big issues that Washington won't, or can't, solve. They are reshaping our economy and fixing our broken political system. The Metropolitan Revolution is a national movement, and the book... more...

  • Confronting Suburban Poverty in Americaby Elizabeth Kneebone; Alan Berube

    Brookings Institution Press 2013; US$ 28.95

    It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Back in the 1960s tackling poverty "in place" meant focusing resources in the inner city and in rural areas. The suburbs were seen as home to middle- and upper-class families?affluent commuters and homeowners looking for good schools and safe communities in which... more...

  • Shooting for a Centuryby Stephen P. Cohen

    Brookings Institution Press 2013; US$ 29.95

    The rivalry between India and Pakistan has proven to be one of the world's most intractable international conflicts, ever since 1947 when the British botched their departure from the South Asian subcontinent. And the enmity is likely to continue for another thirty-five years, reaching the century mark. This has critical implications for both countries... more...

  • Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africaby Robert I. Rotberg

    Brookings Institution Press 2005; US$ 22.95

    "Examines the state of governance in the countries of the greater Horn of Africa region--Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, the Sudan, and Yemen--and discusses strategies to combat the transnational threat of terrorism, including suggestions for more effective U.S. engagement in the region"--Provided by publisher. more...

  • Besiegedby William Howell

    Brookings Institution Press 2005; US$ 29.95

    School boards are fighting for their survival. Almost everything that they do is subject to regulations handed down from city councils, state boards of education, legislatures, and courts. Besieged is the first full-length volume in many years to systematically examine the politics that surround school boards. more...

  • Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1:2005by William C. Brainard; George L. Perry

    Brookings Institution Press 2005; US$ 36.00

    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues. more...