Author: Bates Gill
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: security, diplomacy, new, china, star, rising
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 2007-02-26
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0815731469
ISBN-13: 9780815731467

China’s diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for other world powers. Through a combination of pragmatic security policies, growing economic clout, and increasingly deft diplomacy, China has established productive and increasingly solid relationships throughout Asia and around the globe. Yet U.S. policymakers have only just begun to comprehend these critical changes. Here, noted China analyst Bates Gill provides a coherent framework for understanding China’s new security diplomacy and guiding Ame

Author: Yegor Gaidar
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: russia, modern, lessons, empire, collapse
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2007-10-17
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0815731140
ISBN-13: 9780815731146

In today’s Russia, nostalgia for the Soviet era is growing. Many Russians reflect wistfully on the passing of an era when the Soviet Union was a superpower, commanding international respect, and they blame its demise on external enemies and foolish changes in policy. In an address to the Russian Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin called the breakup of the Soviet Union the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. In Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia, however, economic reformer and former prime minister Yegor Gaidar clearly illustrates why such notions

Author: Gerard Caprio; James A. Hanson; Robert E. Litan
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: imf, bank, brookings, emerging, markets, world, future, crises, lessons, past, preparation, financial
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 2005-11-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0815712898
ISBN-13: 9780815712893

Numerous crises rocked the world financial sector in the 1990s: the Asian bubble burst; Argentina and Brazil suffered currency crises; and the post-Soviet economy bottomed out in Russia. Here a distinguished group of economists and policy analysts draw lessons from attempts to recover from these and other financial crises of recent history. Potential hazards facing the world economy in the twenty-first century are also discussed along with approaches that could help to prevent them.

Author: Allen Schick
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: policy, process, politics, third, budget, federal
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0815777353
ISBN-13: 9780815777359

The federal budget impacts American policies both at home and abroad, and recent concern over the exploding budgetary deficit has experts calling our nation’s policies "unsustainable" and "system-dooming." As the deficit continues to grow, will America be fully able to fund its priorities, such as an effective military and looking after its aging population? In this third edition of his classic book The Federal Budget, Allen Schick examines how surpluses projected during the final years of the Clinton presidency turned into oversized deficits under George W. Bush. In his detailed anal

Authors:Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser,
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: removing, apples, bets, avoiding, social, programs, targeting
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815778805
ISBN-13: 9780815778806

Who should be first in line for kidney transplants--the relatively healthy or the severely ill? Should chronic troublemakers be allowed to remain in public housing? Should perpetually disruptive students stay in classes where they can prevent other children from learning? Prominent legal scholar Peter H. Schuck and leading economist Richard J. Zeckhauser take on such vexing policy dilemmas in Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets and Removing Bad Apples. Schuck and Zeckhauser present a rigorous framework for analyzing many of the difficult choices facing policymake

Author: Seyom Brown
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: policy, century, foreign, force, control, illusion
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2003-05
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0815702620
ISBN-13: 9780815702627

This provocative book assesses the implications of a disturbing trend in U.S. security policy: an increased willingness to use military force as an instrument of diplomacy. In The Illusion of Control, Seyom Brown shows how U.S. officials are relying on force to counter a wide range of threats to Americas global interestseclipsing previous strategies that restricted the use of military force to situations in which the countrys vital interests were at stake. Brown points out that a disposition to employ military power broadly as an instrument of diplomacy was on the rise well before September 11

Author: Alfred E. Kahn
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: crunch, airlines, telecommunications, deregulation, lessons
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2004-02
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0815748191
ISBN-13: 9780815748199

Over the last several years, the value of stocks in both the airline and the telecommunications industries have dropped catastrophically. Since these industries were among the most important and most visible to have been unleashed from regulation in recent decades (albeit in widely differing degree), their difficulties have raised the question of whether their deregulation should be reconsidered or even reversed. Alfred E. Kahn, one of the foremost authorities on deregulation, argues in this book that every passing year demonstrates the superiority of the road chosen for the airlines. He co