The current international system of institutions and governance groups is proving inadequate to meet many of today's most important challenges, such as terrorism, poverty, nuclear proliferation, financial integration, and climate change.
A Brookings Institution Press and Center for Strategic and International Studies publicationIn a world transformed by globalization and challenged by terrorism, foreign aid has assumed renewed importance as a foreign policy tool.
Increasingly marginalized since the end of the Cold War, the continent of Africa is struggling to identify both the root causes and possible solutions to the maladies that continue to plague it.
The United States had never lost a warthat is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a "e;raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country.
Maloney analyzes President Hassan Rouhanis ability to direct a new course for Irans troubled political situation and embrace the moderation that will ultimately herald the twilight of the revolution.
In the modern era, political leaders and scholars have declared the rule of law to be essential to democracy, a necessity for economic growth, and a crucial tool in the fight for security at home and stability abroad.
As the 100th anniversary of World War I approaches, historian Margaret MacMillan compares current global tensionsrising nationalism, globalizations economic pressures, sectarian strife, and the United States fading role as the worlds pre-eminent superpowerto the period preceding the Great War.
A Brookings Institution Press and Chatham House publicationThe Russian annexation of Crimea was one of the great strategic shocks of the past twenty-five years.
When it came into force in 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) joined the economic futures of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, with systematic rules governing trade and investment, dispute resolution, and economic relations.
President Bush promised to democratize the Middle East, but the results so far have dispirited democracy advocates and brought their project into disrepute.
Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez Fras has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regimean outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support.
Rapidly increasing global demand for electricity, heightened worries over energy and water security, and climate-change anxieties have brought the potential merits of nuclear energy squarely back into the spotlight.
For the past decade, humanitarian actors have increasingly sought not only to assist people affected by conflicts and natural disasters, but also to protect them.
Leading scholars and policymakers explore how history influences foreign policy and offer insights on how the study of the past can more usefully serve the present.
A Brookings Institution Press and Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (SSPA) publicationFederiga Bindi provides, for the first time, an in-depth analysis of Italy's role within the European Union (EU) in this inaugural volume of a book series published jointly by the Brookings Institution Press and the Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (Italian National School of Public Administration, or SSPA).
A Brookings Institution Press and Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (SSPA) publicationAs the European Union tries to increase both its visibility and its impact on the world stage, it cannot overlook the fact that until now enlargement has formed its most successful foreign policy.
Adopted in April 2004, UN Security Council Resolution 1540 obliges all states to take steps to prevent non-state actors, especially terrorist organizations and arms traffickers, from acquiring weapons of mass destruction and related materials.
When Edward Snowden hit the send button on a laptop in Hong Kong in June 2013, just shy of his 30th birthday, he became the poster boy for an acutely American conundrum: the tension between the governments constitutional commitment to the privacy of individuals and its responsibility for the safety of the nation.
In August 1999 a forty-six-year-old sheep farmer name Jose Bove was arrested for dismantling the construction site of a new McDonald's restaurant in the south of France.
From an impoverished childhood in the Scottish highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of two brothers - Daniel and Alexander Macmillan - who built a publishing empire - and brought Alice in Wonderland to the world.