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Are Judges Political?
Over the past two decades, the United States has seen an intense debate about the composition of the federal judiciary. Are judges "e;activists"e;? Should they stop …
Getting Choice Right
This second volume from the National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education examines the connections between school choice and the goals of equity and efficiency in …
Future of Lousy Jobs?
Politicians, journalists, and the public have expressed rising concern about the declineor percieved declinein middle-class jobs. The U.S. work force is viewed as increasingly …
Skeptic's Case for Nuclear Disarmament
In 2007 two former U.S. secretaries of state, a defense secretary, and a former senator wrote persuasively in the Wall Street Journal that the time had come to move seriously …
Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation
Although estate and gift taxes raise a small fraction of federal revenues, they have become sources of increasing political controversy. This book is designed to inform the current …
Self-Enforcing Trade
The World Trade Organizationbackbone of today's international commercial relationsrequires member countries to self-enforce exporters' access to foreign markets. Its dispute …
Special Interest
Why are America's public schools falling so short of the mark in educating the nation's children? Why are they organized in ineffective ways that fly in the face of common sense, …
World Challenged
A Brookings Institution Press and the Nixon Center publicationIn this candid and sobering account, former Russian premier Yevgeny M. Primakov considers the threats posed by …
Future of Arms Control
Arms control, for decades at the core of the foreign policy consensus, today is among the more contentious issues in American politics. It is pilloried and considered out of mode …
Defense Policy Choices for the Bush Administration, 2001-2005
This latest study in the Brookings series on U.S. defense strategy and the defense budget reviews current American military capabilities and offers suggestions for the new …
Alliance Curse
In Alliance Curse, Hilton Root illustrates that recent U.S. foreign policy is too often misguided, resulting in misdirected foreign aid and alliances that stunt political and …
Believer
In The Believer, Will McCants tells the story of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS), a group so brutal and hardline that even al-Qaida deemed them …