In The Rebirth of the Middle East,Rosenberg discusses how peace, stability, and prosperity are dependent upon economic and trade relations between Israel and Palestine, as well as other neighboring Arab and Muslim countries.
Sex, Discrimination, and Violence is about how the systematic application of some basic principles of applied ethics yields some surprising and very unpopular results.
Critical examinations of efforts to make governments more efficient and responsivePolitical upheavals and civil wars in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have obscured efforts by many countries in the region to reform their public sectors.
A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publicationParticipatory Budgeting the experiment in democracy that could redefine how public budgets are decided in the United States.
A Brookings Institution Press and the National University of Singapore Press publicationThis is the story of the Singapore healthcare system: how it works, how it is financed, its history, where it is going, and what lessons it may hold for national health systems around the world.
A comprehensive exploration of 21st Century school politics, Teachers versus the Public offers the first comparison of the education policy views of both teachers and the public as a whole, and reveals a deep, broad divide between the opinions held by citizens and those who teach in the public schools.
A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publicationParticipatory Budgeting the experiment in democracy that could redefine how public budgets are decided in the United States.
Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United States-the most affluent country in the world-this book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it.
In July 2018, CSIS embarked on a major analytical assessment that centered on the following research question: What will be the strategic consequences for the United States by 2050 if America's two near-peer military competitors, China and Russia, continue to develop their long-term economic and security interests in the Arctic, but the United States does not?
From 19th-century trade agreements and treatments to 21st-century reparations, this volume tells the story of the federal agency that shapes and enforces U.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of drug policy in the United States from the early 1900s through the present day, providing historical and social context through the telling of the colorful and often tragic stories of the events and individuals throughout this period.
As Congress debates the reauthorization of the basic federal student aid legislation, and as governors and state legislators cope with increasingly severe budgetary problems of their own, the issues of preserving college opportunity and sharing the burden of college costs are particularly critical and timely.
The twenty-first-century telecommunications landscape is radically different from the one that prevailed as recently as the last decade of the twentieth century.
The story of men who are hurting-and hurting America by their absenceMan Out describes the millions of men on the sidelines of life in the United States.
Exemplary stories of innovation from around the worldIn an age of rising inequality, getting a good education increasingly separates the haves from the have nots.
Hate speech has been a societal problem for many years and has seen a resurgence recently alongside political divisiveness and technologies that ease and accelerate the spread of messages.
Henry George (1839-1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century.
