Brookings Institution Press: 357 books
Primary Politics
Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
The 2016 presidential primaries are on the horizon and this new edition of Elaine Kamarck’s Primary Politics will be there to help make sense of them. Updated to include the 2012 election, it will once again be the guide to understanding the modern nominating system and some of its arcana, including...
The Lingering Conflict
Israel, the Arabs, and the Middle East, 19482011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
In The Lingering Conflict Itamar Rabinovich, a former chief negotiator for Israel, provides unique and authoritative insight into the prospects for genuine peace in the Middle East. His presentation includes a detailed insider account of the peace processes of 199296 and a frank dissection of the...
Suez Deconstructed
An Interactive Study in Crisis, War, and Peacemaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Experiencing a major crisis from different viewpoints, step by step
The Suez crisis of 1956—now little more than dim history for many people—offers a master class in statecraft. It was a potentially explosive Middle East confrontation capped by a surprise move that reshaped the region for...
In Defense of Israel
A Memoir of a Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The revealing memoir of one of Israeli's most respected statesmen.
Moshe Arens is one of the last surviving members of the founding generation of Israelis. He is a political insider who has worked with every Israeli prime minister from Menachem Begin to Benjamin Netanyahu, serving in a variety...
Nationalism
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
We need a nation, declared a certain Phillippe Grouvelle in the revolutionary year of 1789, and the Nation will be born.-from Nationalism
Nationalism, often the scourge, always the basis of modern world politics, is spreading. In a way, all nations are willed into being. But a simple...
Europe and America
The End of the Transatlantic Relationship?
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
America First is America Alone
Foreign policy is like physics: vacuums quickly fill. As the United States retreats from the international order it helped put in place and maintain since the end of World War II, Russia is rapidly filling the vacuum. Federiga Bindi’s new book assesses...
Moscow Rules
What Drives Russia to Confront the West
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world-and its place in it-that the West can best meet the Russian challenge.
Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that...
The European Union and North Africa
Prospects and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
How Europe can hit the reset button after years of failed responses to North African turmoil
The ongoing upheaval in North Africa has presented many challenges to Europe, which previously had been comfortable with the status quo of authoritarian leadership in much of the region. Now in...
Leapfrogging Inequality
Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Exemplary stories of innovation from around the world
In an age of rising inequality, getting a good education increasingly separates the haves from the have nots. In countries like the United States, getting a good education is one of the most promising routes to upper-middle-class status,...
Primary Politics
Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The 2020 presidential primaries are on the horizon and this third edition of Elaine Kamarck’s Primary Politics will be there to help make sense of them. Updated to include the 2016 election, it will once again be the guide to understanding the modern nominating system that gave the American electorate...
The Sovereignty Wars
Reconciling America with the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Protecting sovereignty while advancing American interests in the global age
Americans have long been protective of the country’s sovereignty—beginning when George Washington retired as president with the admonition for his successors to avoid “permanent” alliances with foreign powers....
Managing Global Issues
Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Globalization is pushing to the fore a wide variety of global problems that demand urgent policy attention. Managing Global Issues provides a comprehensive comparative assessment of international efforts to manage global problems. It identifies and explains successes and failures of such efforts,...
by Bobo Lo
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
The Russian annexation of Crimea was one of the great strategic shocks of the past twenty-five years. For many in the West, Moscow's actions in early 2014 marked the end of illusions about cooperation, and the return to geopolitical and ideological confrontation. Russia, for so long a peripheral presence,...
Homeownership Built to Last
Balancing Access, Affordability, and Risk after the Housing Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The ups and downs in housing markets over the past two decades are without precedent, and the costs-financial, psychological, and social-have been enormous. Yet Americans overwhelmingly still aspire to homeownership, and many still view access to homeownership as an important ingredient for building...