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Written for a broad audience, Brookings FOCUS books feature concise, accessible, and timely assessments of pressing policy issues, including recommendations for action. The following FOCUS titles appear in this catalog:

Why Nuclear Arms Control Is Still ImportantSteven Pifer and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Mr. PutinFiona Hill and Clifford G. GaddyPage 3

The Pursuit of HappinessCarol GrahamPage 13

Bending HistoryMartin S. Indyk, Kenneth G. Lieberthal, and Michael E. O’HanlonPage 44

The Metropolitan RevolutionBruce Katz and Jennifer BradleyPage 45

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Aspen Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

United Nations University Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chatham House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

American Chamber of Commerce to the EU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Century Foundation Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Center for Global Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Jamestown Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Economica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Centre for European Policy Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center . . . . . . . . 33

Bertelsmann Stiftung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Migration Policy Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Institute for the Study of the Americas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Committee to Protect Journalists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

International Labor Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Previously Announced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Order Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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The Thistle and the DroneHow America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam

Akbar Ahmed

The United States declared war on terrorism in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. More than ten years later, the results are decidedly mixed. In The Thistle and the Drone, world-renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed

reveals a tremendously important yet largely unrecognized adverse effect of these campaigns: they actually have exacerbated the already-broken relationship between central governments and the tribal societies on their periphery.

Ideas of a clash of civilizations, “security,” and “terrorism” have dominated the last decade, upsetting the balance between central governments and their periphery in much of the world.

Ahmed draws on sixty current case studies for this unprecedented analysis, begin-ning with Waziristan in Pakistan and expanding to similar societies in Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and elsewhere to offer an alternative paradigm. The United States is directly or indirectly involved with many of these societies. Al Qaeda has been decimated, but the world is drifting into a global war where the focus has shifted to these peripheral societies. Old ethnic and tribal tensions have been revived. No one is immune to the violence—neither school children nor congregations in their houses of worship. People on the periphery say, “Every day is 9/11 for us.”

The thistle of the title evokes Hadji Murad, Tolstoy’s classic novel about the struggle between the Imperial Russian army and the independent Muslim states in the Caucasus. The local tribesman with his courage, pride, and sense of egalitarianism is the prickly thistle; the drone reference, as the most advanced kill technology of globalization, is painfully clear. Together these two powerful metaphors paint a bleak landscape of confusion, uncertainty, violence, and loss. The book provides concrete ways to minimize conflict and still win the war on terror.

Praise for the work of Akbar Ahmed

“Readers [of Journey into America] unfamiliar with Islam will walk away with a much firmer grasp of its nuances, and everyone will likely learn a great deal about American self-perception.”—Publishers Weekly

“Journey into America is a brilliant follow-up to Journey into Islam.”—Colonel David Kilcullen, The Accidental Guerilla

“Akbar Ahmed's voice needs to be heard, and his courage strengthened.”—Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Laureate

Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Kahldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. He is also the first Distinguished Chair of Middle East Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy, a nonresi-dent senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a former Pakistani ambassador to the United Kingdom. In an addition to being a published poet and playwright, Ahmed is the author of Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization and Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam, both pub-lished by Brookings.

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Journey into AmericaThe Challenge of Islam

Akbar Ahmed

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Journey into IslamThe Crisis of Globalization

Akbar Ahmed

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Why Nuclear Arms Control Is Still ImportantSteven Pifer and Michael E. O’Hanlon

For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. But in fact, as Brookings scholars Steven Pifer and Michael O’Hanlon argue in a new book,

it is of major relevance to some of the key and urgent security challenges of the day.

Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan dominate the nuclear headlines, and policymakers constantly try to find the right mix of sanctions, incentives, arms control options, and in some cases, even threats of military force to address the problems. Efforts led by the Obama administration to pressure Iran not to enrich uranium, North Korea not to test more devices, or Pakistan to slow its arms racing depend on international consen-sus about nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear testing, and nuclear weapons reductions.

Then there is Russia. It remains America’s chief partner on nuclear arms negotia-tions, and also a rival in other ways. The Obama administration has had some success in improving U.S.-Russian relations by returning to classic arms control, including the New START Treaty. Those improved relations in turn made it easier to get Moscow to pressure Iran over its nuclear program (and to supply NATO forces in Afghanistan through the so-called Northern Distribution Network rather than just Pakistan). But U.S.-Russian relations remain complex, Moscow is opposed to American plans for missile defense in Europe, and it is not clear how eager Russia is for any further nuclear arms cuts given its reliance on weapons of mass destruction to protect its long borders.

What is the future of nuclear arms control for the next American president, be it a reelected Barack Obama or a newly elected Mitt Romney? Can there be another major U.S.-Russia arms treaty? Can all the tactical and surplus warheads that have so far escaped controls be brought into such a framework? Can a modus vivendi be reached between the two states on missile defense? And what of multilateral accords on nuclear testing and production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons? Pifer and O’Hanlon concisely frame the issues, the circumstances, and the choices for a future president and offer their own recommendations as well.

Steven Pifer is a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program and the Center for the United States and Europe at Brookings, where he is director of the Brookings Arm Control Initiative. He spent more than twenty-five years as a career Foreign Service officer with the U.S. State Department, including three years as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine (1998–2000). Michael E. O’Hanlon is a senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the Sydney Stein Jr. Chair in International Security. He has numerous books to his credit, including Bending History: The Foreign Policy of Barack Obama, written with Martin Indyk and Kenneth Lieberthal (Brookings, 2012), and The Science of War (Princeton, 2009).

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A Skeptic’s Case for Nuclear DisarmamentMichael E. O’Hanlon

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Bending HistoryBarack Obama’s Foreign Policy

Martin S. Indyk, Kenneth G. Lieberthal, and Michael E. O’Hanlon

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Mr. PutinOperative in the Kremlin

Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy

Who is Vladimir Putin? As Russia’s dominant political figure for more than a decade, observers have variously described him as a “man from nowhere”—a man with no face, substance, or soul. Like the English

cartoon character Mr. Benn, Mr. Putin constantly assumes new guises—his public relations team has orchestrated his images as big-game hunter to scuba diver, from biker to nightclub crooner. But in this book, Russia experts Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy reveal Putin as a man of many and complex identities, a man more intricate and multifaceted than he wants the world to believe he is.

Drawing on many sources, including their own personal encounters, Hill and Gaddy argue that there are, in fact, several “real” Putins. His outlook has been shaped by many influences—his early life, a close reading of Russian history and litera-ture, his KGB training, his time in East Germany, his experiences in St. Petersburg in the 1990s, his first role in Moscow as the “operative” brought in from outside to help control Russia’s oligarchs, and his time at the helm of the Russian state. Understanding Putin’s multidimensional nature is essential for policymakers trying to decide how to approach and interact with him. The effort to grasp such an evasive figure makes for fascinating reading.

While uncovering the many real identities of Putin, the authors concentrate on six essential ones: Putin the Statist, the History Man, the Survivalist, the Outsider, the “Free Marketeer,” and the Case Officer. They explain what each identity is, its evolu-tion, and its significance for understanding the Russian leader. Hill and Gaddy also examine the nature of the political system Putin has built, explaining it as a logical result of these identities.

Vladimir Putin has an idealized view of himself as CEO of “Russia, Inc.” But he has not been leading a transparent public corporation; rather, he runs a closed boardroom in a privately held corporation, not answerable to shareholders. The system is personalized and informal; “persuasion” comes by way of threats rather than incentives. But now that his corporation seems to be in crisis, with political protests marking Mr. Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012, will the CEO be held accountable for its failings?

Fiona Hill is director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, where she is the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy. From 2006 to 2009, she served as the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the U.S. National Intelligence Council. Clifford G. Gaddy, an economist specializing in Russia, is a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development programs at Brookings. Hill and Gaddy are coauthors of The Siberian Curse (Brookings, 2003).

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The Siberian CurseHow Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold

Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy

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Bending HistoryBarack Obama’s Foreign Policy

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Uncharted StraitThe Future of China-Taiwan Relations

Richard C. Bush

The future of the Taiwan Strait is more wide open than at any other time in recent decades. Tensions between China and Taiwan have eased since 2008, but the movement toward full rapprochement remains fragile. Whether the

two sides of the Strait can sustain and expand a cooperative relationship after decades of mutual distrust and fear is still uncertain.

In Uncharted Strait Richard Bush, who specialized in Taiwan issues during almost twenty years in the U.S. government, explains the current state of relations between China and Taiwan. He discusses what led to the current situation and then extrapo-lates the likely future of cross-Strait relations. Bush also explains America’s stake, analyzing possible ramifications for U.S. interests in the critically important East Asia region as well as recommending steps to protect those interests.

Current engagement between Beijing and Taipei increases the likelihood of a peaceful long-term solution to their six-decade dispute. Whether, when, and how that might happen, however, is shrouded in uncertainty. The Taiwan Strait is now uncharted water, and both shores worry about the shoals that may lurk below the surface. China still fears the island’s permanent separation, either because it makes an overt move to de jure independence or continues to refuse unification on Beijing’s terms. Taiwan fears subordination to an authoritarian regime, an adversary from the past that may not have its best interests at heart. And the United States fears insta-bility in East Asia.

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“Perils of Proximity is a superb blend of synthesis and analysis that will appeal to both specialists and lay readers. A significant addition to the field!”—Dr. David M. Finkelstein, Vice President, Center for Naval Analyses

With Untying the Knot, “Richard Bush has written the most comprehensive English-language account of the vicissitudes of cross-Strait relations.”—Pacific Affairs

Richard C. Bush holds the Michael H. Armacost Chair at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies. He was chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan, America’s de facto Taipei embassy, 1997–2002.

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1. Introduction2. Historical Context3. Political Context4. Setting the Analytical Stage5. Economic Stabilization6. Political Stabilization

7. Security Stabilization8. PRC Pressure9. Ma’s Second Term10. Can Taiwan Strengthen Itself?11. Implications for the United States

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The Perils of ProximityChina–Japan Security Relations

Richard C. Bush

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Star Spangled SecurityApplying Lessons Learned Over Six Decades Safeguarding America

Harold Brown with Joyce Winslow

Former U.S. secretary of defense Harold Brown served during the hottest part of the Cold War when the Soviet Union presented an existential threat to America. In Star Spangled Security, Dr. Brown, one of the most respected wise men of

American foreign policy, gives an insider’s view of U.S. national security strategy during the Carter administration, relates lessons learned, and bridges them to current challenges facing America.

Brown describes his part in the SALT negotiations, the normalization of relations with China, the Camp David Accords, the development of a new generation of bal-listic missiles, and more. Drawing on his earlier years as the director of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, as director of defense research and engineering, as Air Force secretary, and as president of Caltech, Brown uses his hard-won wisdom, especially during the painful Iran hostage crisis, to offer specific recommendations and key questions to ponder as America copes with challenges in a turbulent world.

Highly readable, this book is for anyone wishing to better understand the debates about defense and its budget, its effect on the entire economy and America’s rela-tionship with allies during conflict and peace. Brown’s access to the leading forces in national security over 60 years spans five presidents, giving the reader entrée into the inner circle of decisionmakers.

Since leaving public office, Brown has served on the boards of directors of a dozen corporations. His unique economic, military, research, university, and govern-ment experience—at the top of all institutions he served—makes his a voice well worth heeding.

For example, he draws from experience with the Camp David Accords to make rec-ommendations on Israel and Iran. He uses America’s mistakes in Vietnam to illustrate the policies to consider in Iraq and Afghanistan. He brings us up-to-date on China and how its ambitions could lead to armed conflict with the U.S.

Dr. Harold Brown was the U.S. secretary of defense from 1977 to 1981. Joyce Winslow is a Washington journalist and prize-winning fiction author whose stories appear in the Best American Short Story collection. She interviewed Brown over six months to distill his remarkable career into a bridge for the future.

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Campaign 2012Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy

Benjamin Wittes, ed.


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Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 1978–2012Stephen Hess

In 1981, Brookings published The Washington Reporters, the first entry in Stephen Hess’s Newswork series. Hess has come full circle with this, the seventh and final Newswork title, in which he follows up on the 450 reporters surveyed in 1978 for

the original book. Thirty-five years is a long time, and a lot has changed. Hess fully capitalizes on this unique opportunity to reveal a great deal about reporters, journal-ism, and how we get our news.

This is not a “Class of ’78” in the sense of a group entering college together. The respondents have an age spread of more than a half-century. What they have in common is that at a certain moment in time they all were based in Washington, working for U.S. commercial news organizations, covering national government. The group includes a number of eminent journalists, including television reporters such as Ted Koppel, Brit Hume, Marvin Kalb, and Judy Woodruff. Others would leave Washington to become the editors of such prestigious newspapers as the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times.

Whatever happened to . . .? To answer this question, Hess and his team tracked down ninety percent of the original group, interviewing 283 or otherwise relying on obitu-aries. How many stayed in journalism? Did they rise in their organizations? Change jobs? Move from reporter to editor? Did they jump from one medium to another? Did they remain in Washington? How many left journalism altogether?

The book is designed as a series of discrete, self-contained essays, each concentrating on a certain characteristic, such as age or gender or race or place of employment (e.g., the New York Times and television networks). In addition to being lively and fascinating in their own right, the updated profiles provide unique insights into the career pat-terns of professional journalists, a subject surrounded by considerable misinformation.

Hess concludes with a chapter that measures journalism’s dropout rate—those who leave sooner rather than later; those who leave journalism in mid-career; and those who are lifetime journalists. Why do some leave and others stay? The results differ markedly from what journalists and sociologists told us to expect.

Stephen Hess is a senior fellow emeritus in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and formerly Distinguished Research Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He was a young speechwriter in the Eisenhower White House and returned to the White House to work with Presidents Nixon and Carter. He also advised the presidential transition teams of Reagan and Clinton. His numerous books include Through Their Eyes: Foreign Correspondents in the United States (Brookings, 2005) and Organizing the Presidency, with James Pfiffner (Brookings, 3d edition in 2002).

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What So Proudly We HailedEssays on the Contemporary Meaning of the War of 1812

Pietro S. Nivola and Peter J. Kastor, eds.

With Congress divided along party lines, the U.S. government goes to war, without adequately preparing either the means to finance the conflict or the capabilities needed to achieve its aims. The executive branch suffers

from in-fighting. The military invades a foreign nation, expecting to be treated as liberators. The entire endeavor winds down to a seemingly inconclusive ending. Sound familiar? This all started two hundred years ago.

What So Proudly We Hailed looks at the War of 1812 in part through the lens of 21st century America. On the bicentennial of that formative yet misunderstood period in American history, this provocative book asks, among other questions: What did America learn—and what did it not learn—from the experience? How did it help shape a nation?

By 2003, America was waging two wars at once, at vast expense. Neither was financed by tax increases, but instead with borrowed money—much like in 1812, when the “Republican” party’s reluctance to use the government’s taxing power led to expanded debt and inadequate funding for the war effort.

Partisan animosity in 1812 surpassed today’s rancor, teaching us the danger of hyper-partisanship as well as the less obvious tendency of the party system to adapt and realign: The Federalist-Republican competition that dominated early U.S. politics dissipated in the war’s aftermath. We take today’s partisan divide as a given, but in time that too is likely to pass.

Contents1. Pulitzer-winning historian Alan Taylor (The Civil War of 1812) examines the war’s

sectional tensions and the implications for American nationalism.2. Historian Peter J. Kastor discusses how 1812–15 affected state-federal relations.3. Author Stephen Budiansky (Perilous Fight) explores the military legacy.4. Pietro Nivola assesses the keen partisan rivalry of the early 1800s and what it can

tell us about today’s strife. 5. Benjamin Wittes and Ritika Singh of Brookings investigate constitutional frictions,

particularly regarding presidential power and civil liberties.

Pietro S. Nivola is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the Douglas C. Dillon Chair in Governance Studies. He coedited (with David Brady) both volumes of Red and Blue Nation (Brookings/Hoover Institution, 2006 and 2008). Peter J. Kastor is an associate professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis. He is author of The Nation’s Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America (Yale, 2004).

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Education Governance for the Twenty-First CenturyOvercoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform

Paul Manna and Patrick McGuinn, eds.

America’s fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this impor-tant new book, a number of leading education scholars, analysts, and practi-

tioners show that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in areas such as standards, testing, teachers, or school choice requires careful analysis of the broader governing arrangements that influence their content, implementation, and impact.

Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century comprehensively assesses the strengths and weaknesses of what remains of the old in education governance, scrutinizes how traditional governance forms are changing, and suggests how governing arrange-ments might be further altered to produce better educational outcomes for children.

Paul Manna, Patrick McGuinn, and their colleagues provide the analysis and alterna-tives that will inform attempts to adapt nineteenth and twentieth century gover-nance structures to the new demands and opportunities of today.

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• Who Leads When Everyone Is in Charge? McGuinn / Manna

The Problem

• The Failures of U.S. Education Governance Today, Chester E. Finn Jr. / Michael J. Petrilli (Fordham Institute)

• How the Current Governance of Education Inhibits Better Uses of Resources, Marguerite Roza (University of Washington)

• Governance Challenges to Innovators within the System, Michelle R. Davis (Education Week)

• Governance Challenges to Innovators outside the System, Steven F. Wilson (Ascend Learning)

Traditional Institutions in Flux

• The End of Educational Exceptionalism, Jeffrey Henig (Columbia University)

• Rethinking District Governance, Frederick Hess (AEI) / Olivia Meeks (D.C. Public Schools)

• Interstate Governance of Standards and Testing, Kathryn McDermott (U Mass-Amherst)

• Federal Role and Challenges of Governance in Performance-Based Federalism, Kenneth Wong (Brown University)

Lessons from Other Nations and Sectors

• English Perspectives, Sir Michael Barber (Pearson)

• Education Governance in Comparative Perspective, Michael Mintrom (Monash University) / Richard Walley (New Zealand Ministry of Education)

• Governance Lessons from Health Care and the Environment, Barry Rabe (University of Michigan)

Paths Forward

• Toward a Coherent and Fair Funding System, Cynthia G. Brown (CAP)

• Picturing a Different Governance Structure, Paul Hill (University of Washington)

• Governance Reform: From Theory to Results, Kenneth Meier (Texas A&M)

• The Tall Task and National Imperative of Education Governance Reform, McGuinn / Manna

Paul Manna is associate professor in the Department of Government and the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. Patrick McGuinn is an asso-ciate professor of political science and education at Drew University.

Copublished with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the Center for American Progress

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State and Local PensionsWhat’s Next?

Alicia H. Munnell

In the wake of the financial crisis and Great Recession, the health of state and local pension plans has emerged as a front burner policy issue. Elected officials, academic experts, and the media alike have pointed to funding shortfalls with

alarm, expressing concern that pension promises are unsustainable or will squeeze out other pressing government priorities. A few local governments have even filed for bankruptcy, with pensions cited as a major cause.

Alicia H. Munnell draws on both her practical experience and prior research to provide a broad perspective on the challenge of state and local pensions. She shows that the story is big and complicated and cannot be viewed through a narrow prism such as accounting methods or the role of unions. By examining the diversity of the public plan universe, Munnell debunks the notion that all plans are in trouble. In fact, she finds that, while a few plans are basket cases, many are functioning reasonably well.

The analysis concludes that the plans in serious trouble need a major overhaul. But even the relatively healthy plans face three challenges ahead: an excessive concen-tration of plan assets in equities; the risk that steep benefit cuts for new hires will harm workforce quality; and the constraints plans face in adjusting future benefits for current employees. State and Local Pensions proposes solutions that preserve the main strengths of state and local pensions while promoting needed reforms.

Praise for Alicia Munnell and Steven Sass, Working Longer

“[One] of the most valuable financial-planning books that came out in 2008.”—Wall Street Journal

“Munnell and Sass define succinctly the problem faced by baby boomers, and for that matter, by all Americans who aspire to retire now or in the near future.”—New York Times

Alicia H. Munnell is the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences, Carroll School of Management, and director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. She has served as assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy and as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. She was also cofounder and first president of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Munnell has written or edited numerous books, including Brookings titles Working Longer: The Solution to the Retirement Income Challenge with Steven Sass (2008) and Coming Up Short: The Challenge of 401(k) Plans (2004), written with Annika Sunden.

October, 6 x 9, 240 pp. cloth, 978-0-8157-2412-4, $29.95 / £20.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2413-1, $29.95 / £20.99


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Confronting Suburban Poverty in AmericaElizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube

It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared his War on Poverty, setting in motion development of America’s modern safety net. Back in the 1960s, tackling poverty “in place” meant focusing resources in the inner city

and in isolated rural areas. The suburbs were home to middle- and upper-class families—affluent commuters and homeowners who did not want to raise kids in the city. But the America of 2012 is a very different place. Poverty is no longer just an urban or rural problem but increasingly a suburban one as well.

In Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube take on the new reality of metropolitan poverty and opportunity in America. For decades, suburbs added poor residents at a faster pace than cities, so that suburbia is now home to more poor residents than central cities, composing over a third of the nation’s total poor population. Unfortunately, the antipoverty infrastructure built over the past several decades does not fit this rapidly changing geography. The solution no longer fits the problem. Kneebone and Berube explain the source and impact of these important developments; moreover, they present innovative ideas on addressing them.

The spread of suburban poverty has many causes, including job sprawl, shifts in affordable housing, population dynamics, immigration, and a struggling economy. It raises a number of daunting challenges, such as the need for more (and better) transportation options, services, and financial resources. But necessity also produces opportunity—in this case, the opportunity to rethink and modernize services, struc-tures, and procedures so that they better reflect and address new demands. This book embraces that opportunity.

The authors put forward a series of workable recommendations for public, private, and nonprofit leaders seeking to modernize poverty alleviation and community development strategies and connect residents with economic opportunity. They describe and evaluate ongoing efforts in metro areas where local leaders are learning how to do more with less and adjusting their approaches to address the metropoli-tan scale of poverty—for example, collaborating across sectors and jurisdictions, using data and technology in innovative ways, and integrating services and service delivery. Kneebone and Berube combine clear prose, original thinking, and illustra-tive graphics to paint a new picture of poverty in America as well as the best ways to combat it.

Elizabeth Kneebone is a senior research associate at the Metropolitan Policy program at the Brookings Institution. Before joining Brookings, she worked as a research project manager for the Illinois Facilities Fund. Alan Berube is a senior fellow and research director with the Metropolitan Policy program. Before joining Brookings in 2001, he was a policy adviser for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

January, 6 x 9, 184 pp. paper, 978-0-8157-2390-5, $28.95 / £19.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2391-2, $28.95 / £19.99

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The Metropolitan RevolutionBuilding the Next Economy from the Ground Up

Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley



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From Despair to HopeHope VI and the Promise of Public Housing in America’s Cities

Henry Cisneros and Lora Engdahl, eds.

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Diversity ExplosionHow New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America

William H. Frey

Major racial and ethnic changes are sweeping the United States, monumental shifts that will leave deep footprints for years. An aging white population is juxtaposed with new minority groups showing robust growth, as Hispanic

and Asian groups now account for all the growth in the nation’s youth population. As this younger multi-ethnic generation grows up, the nation’s labor force and elector-ate will be transformed.

In Diversity Explosion eminent demographer William Frey combines user-friendly graphics and maps with authoritative yet accessible analysis to paint a detailed and illuminating picture of where America’s racial demography is headed and what it means for the nation’s future.

Traditional patterns have largely reversed. The Great Migration northward has been replaced with a southward shift so significant that several northern and western states are experiencing net losses in African American population, while that group’s presence in the suburbs grows as never before. The south, then, is becoming more multi-ethnic as are America’s suburbs. While great change is afoot, however, it would be overly simplistic to characterize the United States as a “melting pot in waiting.” Although some racial lines are blurring, other race-and-space divisions persist. For example, there exists a clear distinction between large, primarily coastal met-ropolitan regions that have been mainstay communities for Hispanics and Asians and more recent destinations where these groups are receiving a mixed reception. Another important demographic subset is those slow-growing, aging, largely white areas in the middle of the country where new minority presence remains small.

Drawing from these generational and geographic shifts, the book examines other dimensions of race relations in America including neighborhood segregation, mixed-race marriages, and the political ramifications in different parts of the country.

Contents1. A Pivotal Period for Racial Change

2. Old versus Young: Cultural Generation Gaps

3. America’s New Racial Map

4. Hispanics Fan Out: Who Goes Where?

5. Asians in America: Where They Matter Most

6. The Great Migration in Reverse

7. Zero-Sum Game: White Gains and Losses

8. Melting Pot Cities and Suburbs

9. Neighborhood Segregation-Delayed Declines

10. Mixed-Race Marriages and Multicultural America

11. Race and Politics: Red, Blue, and Purple States

12. New Racial Demographics and the Nation’s Future

William H. Frey is a senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy program at the Brookings Institution and Research Professor in Population Studies at the University of Michigan. An internationally regarded demographer, his research has been written about in The Economist, New Yorker, and New York Times Magazine, and he is a frequent commentator on broadcast media

January, 6 x 9, 224 pp. cloth, 978-0-8157-2398-1, $29.95 / £20.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2399-8, $29.95 / £20.99

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America’s New Swing RegionChanging Politics and Demographics in the Mountain West

Ruy Teixeira, ed.


paper, 978-0-8157-2286-1, $28.95 / £19.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2287-8, $28.95 / £19.99


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The Search for Social EntrepreneurshipPaul C. Light

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Ports in a StormPublic Management in a Turbulent World

John D. Donahue and Mark H. Moore, eds.

Copublished with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School

paper, 978-0-8157-2237-3, $28.95 / £19.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2238-0, $28.95 / £19.99

Government’s Greatest InvestigationsCongress, President, and the Search for Answers 1945–2012

Paul C. Light

Presidential and congressional investigations are particularly powerful tools for asking tough questions about highly visible, often complex government break-downs. In this insightful work, Paul Light, one of America’s premier authorities

on public service and management, provides a deep assessment of what he has identified as the federal government’s one hundred most significant investigations since World War II.

The findings and impact of Light’s top one hundred vary nearly as much as the range of topics they covered, including communist infiltration of government and the Sputnik launch during the 1950s, the Ku Klux Klan and Vietnam War during the 1960s; Watergate and Central Intelligence Agency abuses during the 1970s; the Social Security crisis, Challenger disaster, and the Iran-Contra scheme during the 1980s; the back-to-back sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge and Bill Clinton’s impeachment in the 1990s; and the 9/11 attacks, collapse of Enron, and the financial meltdown in the 2000s.

Government’s Greatest Investigations provides a deep history and analysis of these investigations, providing rare insight into why some great investigations succeeded, while others failed, and what investigators can do to increase the odds that their work will pay off in improved government performance and more effective public policy.

Informed by a deep reading of investigatory histories, numerous interviews with leg-islators, commission members, and leading scholars, as well as his own experience and original research, Light undertakes his own search for answers to a long list of questions about how each of these investigations performed. Was the investiga-tion visible and well led? Was it serious and thorough? Did it involve a particularly controversial issue or a powerful public figure? Were investigators given enough freedom to pursue their goals? Did they forge the bipartisanship so often associated with what he calls the “good investigation?” And most important, what are the most important drivers of ultimate impact? Light’s analysis will inform practitioners and observers of government on what drives impact in the American system.

Praise for the work of Paul Light

[With A Government Ill Executed,] Paul Light has made a major contribution to rethinking federal bureaucracy at a crucial time in its evolution.”—Newt Gingrich

Paul C. Light is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. He is the author of numerous successful books including A Government Ill-Executed (Harvard) and Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World’s Greatest Problems (Wiley). His Brookings books include Government’s Greatest Achievements (2002) and The Search for Social Entrepreneurship (2008).

Copublished with the Governance Institute

December, 6 x 9, 250 pp. paper, 978-0-8157-2268-7, $29.95 / £20.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2269-4, $29.95 / £20.99

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NEW IN PAPERBACK

Haunting LegacyVietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to ObamaMarvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb

In Haunting Legacy, the father-daughter journalist team of Marvin

Kalb and Deborah Kalb presents a compelling, accessible, and hugely important history of presidential decisionmaking on one crucial issue: in light of the Vietnam debacle, under what circumstances should the United States go to war?

Praise for the hardcover edition

“What a terrific book! Scrupulously researched and beautifully told, Haunting Legacy proves that try as they might, our

past seven presidents have—one after the next—failed to exorcize the ghost of Vietnam. . . . It’s a fresh look at late 20th/early 21st Century American history.”—Lesley Stahl, correspondent for 60 Minutes

“The Vietnam debacle continues to haunt America’s political leaders, military men, and population. Marvin and Deborah Kalb’s account of this phenomenon is studiously researched, vividly narrated and, above all, highly readable. It will stand as a major contribution to the subject.—Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History, winner of the

Pulitzer Prize in History

“This is great narrative history and biography combined to create informative case studies.” —Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute

“In a compelling and totally accessible book the Kalbs (father and daughter) show how profoundly America’s defeat in Vietnam has affected one U.S. administration after another, over the course of the past thirty-six years. If you wonder whether Vietnam still matters, it does. Read this book and discover why and how.” —Ted Koppel, anchor of ABC’s Nightline for twenty-five years

“A clear-eyed look at the Vietnam War’s fateful consequences—especially subsequent wars—up until the present in Afghanistan. It could not be a more timely and thoughtful contribution to the literature.” —Jamie Stiehm, Huffington Post

Marvin Kalb is the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice (Emeritus) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and founding director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. His distinguished journalism career covers thirty years of award-winning reporting and commentary for CBS and NBC News, including stints as bureau chief in Moscow and host of Meet the Press. Deborah Kalb, a freelance writer and editor, worked as a journalist in Washington for two decades, including writing for Gannett News Service, Congressional Quarterly, U.S. News & World Report, and The Hill.

September, 6 x 9, 364 pp. paper, 978-0-8157-2389-9, $19.95t / £13.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2132-1, $19.95 / £13.99

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The Pursuit of HappinessAn Economy of Well-BeingCarol Graham

In The Pursuit of Happiness, Carol Graham explores what we know

about the determinants of happiness and clearly presents both the promise and the potential pitfalls of injecting the “economics of happiness” into public policymaking. While the book spotlights the innovative contribu-tions of happiness research to the dismal science, it also raises a cau-tionary note about the issues that still need to be addressed before policy-makers can make best use of them.


“With great care and judgment, Graham clearly explains the complexities of defining, measuring, and targeting happiness in economic policy while still urging us to persevere. . . . A consummate work of scholarship.”—Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University

“The book is well written and very accessible, and is immaculately researched, avoiding bias and imbalance. . . . Far from being a ‘dismal science,’ Graham provides much reason for optimism for those people involved in this bur-geoning field of economics.”—World Economics

“As acceptance of social science research on happiness continues to grow, a new question has naturally surged to the fore: Should happiness be a goal of public policy? In this eloquently written celebration of a new science, Carol Graham provides valuable new insight into the pros and cons of this issue.”—Richard A. Easterlin, university professor and professor of economics,

University of Southern California

“Since 1776 the ‘pursuit of happiness’ has been the great world question. Here, reflecting on modern survey techniques and results, Carol Graham drills deeper. . . . [She] is opening up a whole new frontier in economic and social policy.”—George Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics

Carol Graham is a senior fellow in Global Economy and Development and Charles Robinson Chair in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. She is also College Park Professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. Her previous books include Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford University Press) and Happiness and Hardship: Opportunity and Insecurity in New Market Economies, with Stefano Pettinato (Brookings).

A Brookings FOCUS book

August, 5 ½ x 8 ½, 164 pp. paper, 978-0-8157-2404-9, $18.95 / £12.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2128-4, $18.95 / £12.99

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Strife and ProgressPortfolio Strategies for Managing Urban SchoolsPaul T. Hill, Christine Campbell, and Betheny Gross

Deficient urban schooling remains one of America’s most pressing—and stubborn—public policy problems. This impor-

tant new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a broad audience the “portfolio strategy” for providing urban education—its rationale, implementation, and results. Under the portfolio strategy, cities use anything that works, indifferent to whether schools are run by the public district or private entities. It combines traditional modes of schooling with newer methods, including chartering and experimentation with schools making innovative use of people and technology. Urban districts try to make themselves magnets for new talent, recruiting educators and career switchers looking to make a difference for poor children.

The portfolio strategy creates interesting new bedfellows: people who think that government should oversee public education align with those advocating choice, competition, and entrepreneurship. It cuts across political lines and engages city governments and civic assets (e.g., philanthropies, businesses, universities) much more deeply than earlier reform initiatives. New York and New Orleans were portfolio pioneers, but the idea has spread rapidly to cities as far-flung as Los Angeles, Denver, and Chicago.

Results have been mixed overall but generally positive in places that implemented the strategy most aggressively. Reform leaders such as New York’s Joel Klein have been overly optimistic, how-ever, assuming that the strategy’s merits would be so obvious that careful assessment would be unnecessary. Serious policy evaluation is still needed.

Paul T. Hill is a research professor in the Daniel Evans School of Public Policy at the University of Washington, where he served for eighteen years as director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE). Christine Campbell is a senior research analyst at CRPE and director of its Portfolio School Districts Project. Hill and Campbell are coauthors of It Takes a City: Getting Serious about Urban School Reform (Brookings). Betheny Gross is a senior research analyst at CRPE.

October, 6 x 9, 175 pp. paper, 978-0-8157-2427-8, $28.95 / £19.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2428-5, $28.95 / £19.99

The 2012 Brown Center Report on American EducationHow Well Are American Students Learning?

T he 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education distills the results of studies to examine the state of education in

the United States. In particular, the report focuses on education policy, student learning measures, trends on achievement test scores, and education reform outcomes.

2012, 8 ½ x 11, 36 pp. paper, 978-0-8157-2410-0, $12.95 / £8.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2411-7, $12.95 / £8.99

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In the Name of JusticeStriving for the Rule of Law in ChinaHe Weifang Foreword by John L. Thornton Introduction by Cheng Li

Of all the issues sparked by China’s transformation, development of

the legal system is arguably the most consequential. The social unrest of recent years and the growing ten-sion between China’s interest groups underscore the urgency of developing a sound and sustainable legal system.

In the Name of Justice presents a critical assessment of the state of Chinese legal reform by He Weifang, the country’s leading liberal law scholar. Professor He has been at the

forefront of the country’s bumpy path toward justice and judicial independence for more than a decade. In addition to presenting a selection of Professor He’s academic writings, this volume also includes many of his public speeches, media interviews, and open letters, providing further insight into his dual roles as thinker and practitioner in the Chinese legal world.

Among the volume’s many topics are judicial independence, judicial review, legal education, capital punishment, and the legal protection of free speech and human rights. The author reviews the evolution of Chinese traditional legal thought and compares it to the path taken by other nations.

A proponent of reform rather than revolution, He believes that the growing institutionalization of factional checks and bal-ances within the Party leadership may represent important steps toward democracy. In his view, only true constitutionalism can guarantee social justice and enduring stability for China.

He Weifang, one of China’s most influential public intellectuals, is a professor of law at Peking University in Beijing and an expert on con-stitutional development in China. John L. Thornton is chairman of the board of trustees at the Brookings Institution and professor and director of global leadership at Tsinghua University. Cheng Li is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy and director of research at the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings.

Thornton Center Series on Chinese Thinkers

August, 6 × 9, 230 pp. cloth, 978-0-8157-2290-8, $34.95 / £23.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2291-5, $34.95 / £23.99

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Crisis FederalismHow the Stimulus Reshaped Federal-State RelationsTracy Gordon

The recession of 2007–09 was the most severe downturn in

U.S. economic performance since the Great Depression. Such a huge problem triggered a huge response. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009—a.k.a. the Recovery Act or simply “the stimulus”—injected more than $800 billion into the moribund economy. Not surprisingly it remains hugely controversial, but the law is not well understood.

Crisis Federalism examines ARRA through the lens of fiscal fed-eralism. The question of “who pays for what?” has bedeviled the nation for centuries. Tracy Gordon argues that the Recovery Act can teach us much about a proper balance of responsibilities among different levels of government. Subnational governments provide most of the public goods and services in America, so the federal government could not efficiently disburse funds for education, health, and welfare—areas targeted in the stimulus—without mobilizing lower levels of governments. Thus more than half of ARRA spending flowed through states, counties, cities, and towns.

The Recovery Act provides a possible template for future inter-governmental cooperation. By targeting aid to the most afflicted and requiring extensive oversight and reporting, ARRA may have helped overcome the moral hazard concerns regarding federal aid. Whereas other writers have focused on ARRA’s impact on jobs or economic output, Gordon emphasizes the role of state and local governments, bringing the discussion down to where Americans interact with their governments.

Tracy Gordon is a fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Previously she taught in the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and was a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.


Voices for ChildrenRhetoric and Public PolicyWilliam T. Gormley Jr.

The United States spends more on programs for the elderly than

it does on programs that enhance child development and improve child welfare. Why has public policy neglected the development phase of young Americans’ lives not only in substantive dollars spent, but also in program design and implementation? Noted child care and education policy expert William Gormley highlights the portrayal of children’s issues in both the mass media and in public policy-making to explain why children have

gotten short shrift. A key explanation is the limited mass media coverage of strong arguments in support of children’s programs.

After documenting changes in rhetoric on children and public policy over time and variations across policy domains and govern-ment venues, Gormley demonstrates that some “issue frames” are more effective than others in persuading voters. In two ran-domized experiments, he finds that “economic” frames are more effective than “moralistic” frames in generating public support for children’s programs. Independent voters are especially respon-sive to economic frames. In several illuminating case studies, in Connecticut, Utah, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, he finds that strong rhetoric makes a difference but that it is sometimes eclipsed by even stronger political and economic constraints.

Voices for Children offers a fresh perspective on raging debates over child health, child poverty, child welfare, and education programs at the federal and state levels. It finds some hopeful examples that could transform how we think about children’s issues and the kinds of public policies we adopt.

William T. Gormley Jr. is University Professor and professor of govern-ment and public policy at Georgetown University and codirector of the Center for Research on Children in the U.S. He is the author of several books, including Organizational Report Cards with David Weimer and Bureaucracy and Democracy with Steven Balla.


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Investing in ChildrenWork, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries

Ariel Kalil, Ron Haskins, and Jenny Chesters, eds.


paper, 978-0-8157-2202-1, $28.95 / £19.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2203-8, $28.95 / £19.99

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Arab Society in RevoltThe West’s Mediterranean ChallengeCesare Merlini and Olivier Roy, eds.

The Arab Spring of 2011 will be remembered as a period of

great change by the Arab states of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Facing fundamen-tal transitions in governance, these countries are also undergoing pro-found social, cultural, and religious changes. The European Union and the United States, caught unprepared by the uprisings, now must address the inescapable challenges of these transformations. Arab Society in Revolt explains and interprets the

societal transformations occurring in the Arab Muslim world, their ramifications for the West, and possible policy options for dealing with this new world.

Expectations raised in the Arab squares are bound to have political consequences sooner or later. How will the West respond to these new realities, particularly in light of international economic uncertainty, EU ambivalence toward a “cohesive foreign policy,” and declining U.S. influence abroad?

The first section of Arab Society in Revolt examines areas of change particularly relevant in the Southern Mediterranean: demography and migration, Islamic revival and democracy, rapidly changing roles of women in Arab society, the Internet in Arab soci-eties, commercial and social entrepreneurship as change factors, and the economics of Arab transitions. The second part looks at those cultural and religious as well as political and economic fac-tors that have influenced the Western response, or the lack of one, to the Arab Spring, as well as the policy options that remain open.

Cesare Merlini is a nonresident senior fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings and chair-man of the board of trustees with the Italian Institute for International Affairs in Rome. Olivier Roy is professor at the European University Institute in Florence, directing the Mediterranean program at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and is a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

August, 6 x 9, 250 pp. paper, 978-0-8157-2396-7, $28.95 / £19.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2397-4, $28.95 / £19.99

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The Arab AwakeningAmerica and the Transformation of the Middle East

Kenneth M. Pollack and others

paper, 978-0-8157-2226-7, $26.95 / £18.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2227-4, $26.95 / £18.99

Innovations in Scaling Up Development ImpactLaurence Chandy, Akio Hosono, Homi Kharas, and Johannes Linn, eds.

Visit any developing country and you will find governments, international donors, NGOs, and corporations involved in a

range of innovative activities to address the needs of the poor. Only a fraction of those that show promise at a localized level, however, will ever be replicated, expanded, and sustained to achieve a transformative impact. Learning how to expand the reach of proven interventions so that they help larger numbers of poor people—“scaling up”—is a fundamental challenge facing the developing world. This book improves our understanding of how scaling up can be achieved and what the international com-munity can do to support the process.

Remarkably little is understood of how to design scalable proj-ects, the impediments to reaching scale, or the most appropri-ate pathways for reaching that goal. To answer these questions, this book features a series of case studies drawn from both the public and private sectors to demonstrate how the scaling up of services for the world’s poor can happen. By linking public and private experience, the authors argue that successful scaling up will not be achieved by either public or private sector efforts alone. Rather, it will require both public and private efforts working together.

This book demonstrates that the challenges to scaling up are complex and various, but ultimately surmountable. It provides an invaluable resource for development practitioners, analysts, and students on a topic that remains largely unexplored and poorly understood.

Laurence Chandy, Homi Kharas, and Johannes Linn are scholars in the Development Assistance and Governance Initiative at the Brookings Institution. Akio Hosono is the director of the Research Institute of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency.


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Catalyzing DevelopmentA New Vision for Aid

Homi Kharas, Koji Makino, and Woojin Jung, eds.

paper, 978-0-8157-2133-8, $30.95 / £20.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-0481-2, $30.95 / £20.99

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The Politics and Civics of National ServiceLessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorpsMelissa Bass

In 1933 Franklin Roosevelt cre-ated America’s first, largest, and

most highly esteemed domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps. As part of the CCC, Americans worked to rehabili-tate, protect, and build the nation’s natural resources. Despite its success, the CCC was short lived. Why did this program die while later, more controversial national service pro-grams, such as Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and AmeriCorps, survive? And why—given the hard-

won continuation and expansion of AmeriCorps—is national service less available as an option today than it was in 1933?

In her new book, Melissa Bass focuses on the history, current relevance, and impact of domestic national service. She argues that only by examining programs over time can we understand national service’s successes and limitations, both in terms of its political support and its civic lessons. Based on extensive archival and documentary research, supplemented with interviews, The Politics and Civics of National Service provides the first detailed policy history of VISTA and AmeriCorps and of America’s main national service programs taken together as a whole.

Moreover, Bass furthers our understanding of twentieth-century American political development by comparing programs found-ed during three distinct political eras—the New Deal, the Great Society, and the early Clinton years—and tracing them over time. To a remarkable extent, the CCC, VISTA, and AmeriCorps reflect the policymaking ethos and political controversies of their times, illuminating principles that hold well beyond the field of national service.

The Politics and Civics of National Service expertly evaluates the civic effects of national service policy in the context of political development in the United States. At the same time, by empha-sizing the programs’ effects on citizenship and civic engagement, this volume deepens our understanding of how programs can act as “public policy for democracy.”

Melissa Bass is an assistant professor of Public Policy Leadership at the University of Mississippi.

December, 6 x 9, 260 pp. cloth, 978-0-8157-2380-6, $32.95 / £22.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2381-3, $32.95 / £22.99

The Resilient SectorSecond editionLester M. Salamon

Today America’s nonprofit sector, long a critically important part

of the nation’s social and economic fabric, is more important than ever. Economic woes and cutbacks in public services have put additional burdens squarely on the nonprofit sector’s shoulders, exacerbating the sector’s longstanding “conflicting multiple identities” as not-for-profit organizations operating in a for-profit market economy, relying heavily on volunteers but expected to meet often-exacting professional stan-

dards—part of the private sector yet serving public purposes.

As Lester Salamon explains in his second edition of The Resilient Sector, America’s nonprofit organizations are caught in a force field, buffeted by four rather different impulses—voluntarism, professionalism, civic activism, and commercialism—that are pull-ing it in rather different directions.

Understanding this force field and the factors shaping its dynam-ics thus becomes essential to understanding the future of indi-vidual organizations and of the nonprofit sector as a whole. To date, far too little attention has been paid to these developing tensions. Salamon explains how and why they developed and how they interact with one another in the ongoing battle for the soul of America’s nonprofits.

Praise for the first edition

“An important book that will be of importance to many within the field.”—Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Lester M. Salamon is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University, where he is director of the Center for Civil Society Studies and was founding director of the Institute for Policy Studies. Acknowledged as one of the premier experts on the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and around the world, he was written a number of books, including Partners in Public Service (Johns Hopkins University Press), Rethinking Corporate Social Engagement (Kumarian), and Tools of Government (Oxford).

November, 6 x 9, 120 pp. paper, 978-0-8157-2425-4, $19.95 / £13.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-2426-1, $19.95 / £13.99

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The State of Nonprofit AmericaSecond edition

Lester M. Salamon, ed.

paper, 978-0-8157-0330-3, $36.95 / £26.99 ebook, 978-0-8157-0466-9, $36.95 / £26.99

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Affordable ExcellenceThe Singapore Health Care SystemWilliam A. Haseltine

The United States has been struggling with its health care sys-tem for decades. Costs continue to spiral upward, while cov-

erage of the population has decreased because of job losses and the resultant loss of health benefits, due to the Great Recession and the subsequent slow economic recovery. President Clinton’s attempt to enact a national health care plan failed, and the fate of President Obama’s health care plan, under attack since its inception, is uncertain.

Since achieving independence, Singapore undertook the monu-mental task of transforming itself to a modern, prosperous, secure city-state. Many institutions needed to be erected to reach this goal, but one that stands out and is the subject of this book was the need for a world class health care system. Affordable Excellence examines how Singapore succeeded in its efforts, setting up a health system that has become one of the best in the world, delivering high quality care at a fraction of the cost of most First World systems. Ranked 6th globally on performance, Singapore spends less than 4% of GDP on health care (in contrast to the U.S., for example, which spends over 17% of GDP).

How did Singapore do it? What can be learned from its achieve-ment? What lessons can be put to use by the developing, and the most-developed, nations building new health care systems? This book provides answers. It explores the underlying social philoso-phy and basic approach that Singapore used to set up its system and, at the heart of the Singapore model, its system of health savings accounts and insurance programs that ensure no one would be without the means to buy quality care.

William Haseltine is currently chairman and president of ACCESS Health International, Inc. and chairman of the William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts. He is also the founder of several com-panies, including Human Genome Sciences, where he served as chairman and CEO.

Copublished with the National University of Singapore Press

November, 6 x 9, 120 pp. paper, 978-0-8157-2416-2, $22.95 / £15.99

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Inequality in AmericaFacts, Trends and International PerspectivesUri Dadush, Kemal Derviş, Sarah Puritz Milsom, and Bennett Stancil

Income inequality has been on the rise since the late 1970s, but the economic and financial crisis of 2008 instigated an unem-

ployment epidemic that dramatically compounded this problem in the United States and catapulted the issue to the center of debate. There is wide agreement across the political spectrum that high inequality is contributing to undesirable circumstances such as stagnated median household income, rising poverty rates, and increased borrowing and debt; though there is much less agreement on remedies.

Inequality in America provides a snapshot of the issues posed by growing economic disparity, focusing particularly on America but drawing on international comparisons to help set the context. The authors examine the economic, technological, and political drivers of inequality as well as identify worrying trends associ-ated with its rise, making the issues surrounding income distribu-tion accessible to a wider public.

The authors, each affiliated with Brookings or the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, demonstrate how specific factors have exacerbated income inequality, including techno-logical change, international trade, changes in labor market participation, and the increasing role of the financial sector.

“Tackling the worst effects of inequality and reestablishing a measure of equal opportunity requires increased investment in crucial public goods, beginning with education, a more progressive and simplified tax system, and increased international cooperation to avoid a race to the bottom. Such policies are pursued by other high-performing advanced countries and can be shaped in a way that is fully consistent with an efficient and competitive American economy.”

Contents1. Introduction2. The Increase of Inequality in the United States3. Three Other Worrying Trends Associated with

Rising Inequality4. The Causes of Rising Inequality 5. Policy, Politics, and Inequality 6. What Can Be Done?7. Concluding Remarks

uri Dadush is a senior associate and the director of the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Kemal Derviş is vice president and director of Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. Sarah Puritz Milsom is a research analyst in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. Bennett Stancil is a research assistant in the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.


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19FALL 2012

NEW IN PAPERBACK

Revised with a new preface

The East Moves WestIndia, China, and Asia’s Growing Presence in the Middle EastGeoffrey Kemp

Industrial growth and economic development are exploding in

China and India. The world’s two most populous nations are the big-gest reasons for Asia’s growing footprint on other global regions. The increasing size and impact of that footprint are especially impor-tant in the Middle East, an economic, religious, and geopolitical linchpin. In this updated edition of The East Moves West, Geoffrey Kemp details the growing interdependence of the Middle East and Asia and projects

the likely ramifications of this evolving relationship.


“A book of startling originality. Much is said about a ‘new’ Middle East, and here it is, India and China pushing westward into the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean. This is strategic and political analysis of the highest order.”—Fouad Ajami, professor and director of Middle East Studies,

Johns Hopkins University

“Kemp offers an effective and broad survey of the Asian-Middle East-America nexus which covers new ground and offers a wealth of informa-tion, data, and analysis. His book should benefit area specialists and poli-cymakers who seek to understand the Asian role in the Middle East and dynamics between rising powers and the quasi-hegemon.”—Middle East Journal

“Insightful and provocative. It is a pathbreaking analysis of major signifi-cance and originality—not a lament about the decline of America or the end of Western ascendancy, but, rather, a sober wake up call to face a new, and maybe enduring, feature of international politics.—Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief, Al-Arabiya news channel

“A rising Asia enters the Persian Gulf, with all that that implies. Nowhere is this development analyzed better than in this volume. . . . Timely, authoritative, and readable.”—Shahram Chubin, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Geoffrey Kemp is the director of Regional Strategic Programs at the Center for the National Interest in Washington, D.C. He served in the White House under Ronald Reagan as special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and senior director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council staff. Before his cur-rent position, he directed the Middle East Arms Control Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is coauthor of Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East (Carnegie).


Financial Regionalism and the International Monetary SystemMasahiro Kawai and Domenico Lombardi

At the apex of the euro area crisis, the Europeans have estab-lished a temporary regional fund (EFSF) and, later this year,

will set a new, permanent regional institution (ESM). In Asia, poli-cymakers have been considering ways to strengthen their own financial arrangements to more effectively enable their region to cope with market pressures.

Thus, while financial regionalism has become an increasingly important area in the field of international financial relations, it is not clear to what extent these regional initiatives could com-pete (if at all) or complement the mission that the International Monetary Fund discharges in the global financial system.

Against the backdrop of the global economic crisis and the ongo-ing euro crisis, a leading team of authors envisage how regional financing arrangements will affect not only regional members within Asia, Europe, the Persian Gulf, or Latin America but also the global financial architecture as a whole.

This comprehensive volume offers a touchstone for international and domestic policymakers, academics, and global experts by

• assessing key political drivers in support for financial regionalism and their sustainability in the foreseeable future,

• evaluating the effectiveness of regional financial arrangements,

• investigating the implications of an increasing number of regional financial initiatives for the international monetary system,

• revisiting the historical relationship among regional financial arrangements and the IMF.

Contributors include Jean Pisani-Ferry (Bruegel), Charles Wyplosz (Institute for Graduate Studies, Geneva), Alessandro Leipold (Lisbon Council), Yu Yongding (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), José Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University), James Boughton (IMF Historian, retired), Shinji Takagi (Osaka University), Chalongphob Sussangkarn (Thai Development Research Institute), Barry Eichengreen (University of California–Berkeley), and Iwan Azis (ADB).

Masahiro Kawai is dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute. Domenico Lombardi is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution and president of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy.

Copublished with the Asian Development Bank Institute



Securing CyberspaceA New Domain for National Security

Nicholas Burns and Jonathon Price, eds. Foreword by Joseph S. Nye and Brent Scowcroft

Securing Cyberspace provides an intensive exploration of the complexities of the emerging cyber threat, as well as the possibilities—and inherent challenges—of crafting effective domestic and international cyber policy. The

authors explore topics such as the economic impact of cybercrime, cyber as a new dimension of warfare, the revolutionary potential of Internet freedom, and the future realities the United States will face in the new age of heightened Internet connectivity.

This is the latest in a series of policy books presenting innovative thinking on America’s most pressing national security challenges. The series stems from the Aspen Strategy Group’s annual workshop, a bipartisan meeting of top national security experts.

Contents

Contributors include Robert Belk (Harvard University), Michael Chertoff (Chertoff Group), Chris C. Demchak (U.S. Naval War College), John Dowdy (McKinsey & Company), Richard Falkenrath (Chertoff Group), Richard Fontaine (Center for a New American Security), Melissa Hathaway (Hathaway Global Strategies LLC), Jason Healey (Atlantic Council), James A. Lewis (Center for Strategic and International Studies), John Michael McConnell (Booz Allen Hamilton), Joseph S. Nye (Harvard University), and Eric Rosenbach (Good Harbor Consulting).

Nicholas Burns is director of the Aspen Strategy Group and professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a former U.S. under secretary of state for political affairs (2005–08), ambassador to NATO (2001–05), and ambassador to Greece (1997–2001). Jonathon Price is the deputy director of the Aspen Strategy Group. Joseph S. Nye is University Distinguished Service Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, a former assistant secretary for defense for international security affairs, and former chair of the National Intelligence Council. Brent Scowcroft, president of the Scowcroft Group, served as national security adviser to Presidents Ford and George H.W. Bush.

2012, 6 ½ x 9, 202 pp. paper, 978-0-89843-562-7, $20.95 / £14.99

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Part 1: Cyberwars & Cyberterror: Understanding Cyberspace as a New Battleground1. U.S. Cybersecurity: The Current Threat

and Future Challenges

2. Resilience, Disruption, and a “Cyber Westphalia”: Options for National Security in a Cybered Conflict World

Part 2: Cyber Policy: Regulating Cyberspace3. Eight Questions and Answers on

U.S. Cyber Statecraft

4. Harnessing Leviathan: Internet Governance and Cybersecurity

Part 3: Cybercrime: Implications for Business and the Economy5. The Cybersecurity Threat to

U.S. Growth and Prosperity

6. Falling Prey to Cybercrime: Implications for Business and the Economy

Part 4: Cybersecurity and Its Tensions with Internet Freedom7. Internet Freedom and Its Tensions

with Cybersecurity

8. Internet Freedom and Political Change

Part 5: Cyberspace: New Policies and a New Strategy9. A Path Forward for Cyber Defense

and Security

21FALL 2012

Business and Climate PolicyPotentials and Pitfalls of Private Voluntary ProgramsKarsten Ronit, ed.

Climate change has become one of the most important and

challenging global policy fields. Attention has focused primarily on the successes and failures of states and intergovernmental organizations, but many more actors are involved and contribute to solutions. Business, often seen as spurring climate change, harbors considerable potential for problem solving. Today, a rich variety of private voluntary programs address climate change.

Private voluntary programs are private in the sense that they are initiated by and made up of businesses. They are voluntary in the sense that businesses are free to join or leave them, and they are programs in that a variety of formal rules, resources, and bodies are often established to administer and evaluate the schemes.

Business and Climate Policy assesses the potentials and pitfalls of existing private voluntary programs. The contributors evaluate how effectively different programs meet public and private goals at the national and international levels, and across industries. The “lessons learned” presented in this book can help to design new programs and improve those in existence. Such lessons are relevant not only within climate policy, but also within the many other policy fields in which private voluntary programs are active.

Karsten Ronit is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen.

August, 6 x 9, 276 pp. paper, 978-92-808-1214-5, $34.00 / £23.99

Green Economy and Good Governance for Sustainable DevelopmentOpportunities, Promises and ConcernsJose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira, ed.

Much of the debate on green growth and environmental

governance tends to be general in nature and is often conceptual or limited to single disciplines. Even though recent discussions on these topics have benefited from the accumulation of empirical and theo-retical knowledge over the last few decades, these discussions have not produced the kind of concep-tual novelty and tools necessary to place the notion of a green economy within mainstream political, social,

and economic agendas. Furthermore, discussions on governance remain mostly in the international sphere with only tenuous talk on governance at the national and subnational levels—the levels at which implementation is key.

Green Economy and Good Governance for Sustainable Development takes stock of the achievements and obstacles toward sustainability over the last twenty years, and it proposes new ideas and changes to create a more sustainable future. The contributors present the gap that can emerge between intentions and results when green initiatives are put into practice and high-light the lack of discussion on important topics such as equity. The book includes in-depth discussion on and analysis of specific issues such as oceans, cities, and biodiversity in order to bring forth solutions that are politically legitimate, socially acceptable, and economically viable.

Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is assistant director and senior research fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies.

July, 6 x 9, 360 pp. paper, 978-92-808-1216-9, $37.00 / £25.99

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Escaping VictimhoodChildren, Youth, and Post-Conflict PeacebuildingAlbrecht Schnabel and Anara Tabyshalieva, eds.

In the aftermath of violent conflict, a society seeking to rebuild its future

needs to consider the interests and needs of its young generation, and these young people need to partici-pate in the process. Yet, trapped in a state of protracted victimhood, children and youth are too often over-looked in post-conflict peacebuilding. Their voices will not be heard unless they can escape the chains of victim-hood and their proper role in post-war recovery is recognized.

In Escaping Victimhood, a diverse group of researchers and scholar-practitioners working in academia, nongovernmental, and international organizations examine the proactive roles of girls and boys in promoting security for themselves and their families. They discuss the disproportionate suffering and specific vulner-abilities of the young during and after war, as well as the interna-tional legal frameworks created to protect and empower these groups in post-conflict environments.

The authors provide examples of initiatives to help young people escape the traps of victimhood and voicelessness and actively engage in rebuilding their communities and nations, and they examine international and national efforts to provide for the secu-rity of children and young people in post-conflict environments.

Children and youth are essential catalysts for the successful rebuilding of war-torn societies. Many will reach adulthood as new social, economic, and political orders are being consolidated, as first elections are held, and as local groups take over assis-tance and rebuilding efforts. The young post-war generation will become the next leaders, parents, and teachers, hence ensuring its active role in post-conflict peacebuilding today could help build a sustainable peace tomorrow.

Albrecht Schnabel is a senior fellow in the Research Division of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. Anara Tabyshalieva is an assistant professor of history at Marshall University and a research fellow at the Institute for Regional Studies, Kyrgyzstan.

February, 6 x 9, 340 pp. paper, 978-92-808-1211-4, $37.00 / £25.99

Free and Open Source Software and Technology for Sustainable DevelopmentSulayman K. Sowe, Govindan Parayil, and Atsushi Sunami, eds.

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) technologies transcend

geographical and cultural boundaries to usher in a new development para-digm where volunteers collabora- tively create software for common use. The political economy of FOSS technologies has far-reaching implications for world development because of the centrality of informa-tion and communications technologies for development (ICT4D). The global trend in the diffusion and adoption of FOSS technologies is a testimony to

the socioeconomic and technological impact the software has for both developed and developing economies.

The main aim of this book is to raise awareness, increase the deployment, and capture the socioeconomic, technical, and educational impact of information and communications technolo-gies in general, and free and open source software in particular, for sustainable development. A global collection of experts in social, natural, and human sciences, with contributions from researchers and practitioners in both developing and developed countries, cover the theoretical and practical implications of FOSS technologies.

While FOSS development, education, and business potentials may appear as a phenomenon for the developed world, a sizable number of developing countries have implemented FOSS poli-cies of their own. Empirical and anecdotal evidence continues to demonstrate the potential of FOSS technologies for giving peo-ple the opportunity to participate actively in the development and shaping of their own technology, stimulating the growth of indigenous software industries, creating local jobs, and lowering technology acquisition and deployment costs.

The target audience of the book includes ICT4D and sustainable development experts, FOSS developers and users, policymakers, technology-oriented small and medium enterprises, NGOs work-ing in ICT and sustainable development, international organiza-tions with technology transfer initiatives, information systems practitioners and research institutions, curriculum designers, uni-versities and colleges, and training institutions interested in the pedagogical aspects of FOSS technologies.

Sulayman K. Sowe is JSPS-UNU Fellow, Science and Technology for Sustainable Societies, at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, Japan. Govindan Parayil is vice rector at United Nations University and director of the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies. Atsushi Sunami is associate professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan.

November, 6 x 9, 404 pp. paper, 978-92-808-1217-6, $38.00 / £26.99


23FALL 2012

Norms of Protection Responsibility to Protect, Protection of Civilians and Their InteractionAngus Francis, Vesselin Popovski, and Charles Sampford, eds.

A series of humanitarian tragedies in the 1990s (Somalia, Rwanda,

Srebrenica, Kosovo) demonstrated the international community’s failure to protect civilians in the context of complex emergencies. They were the inspiration for two norms of protec-tion, Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and Protection of Civilians (POC), both deeply rooted in the empathy that human beings have for the suffering of innocent people. Both norms have achieved high-level endorsement: R2P from the 2005 World Summit and

its Outcome document (Art. 138-140) and POC from a series of Security Council resolutions. The two norms of protection were instrumental in adopting the Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (Libya) and 1975 (Cote d’Ivoire) in the year 2011.

Both norms raise concerns of misinterpretation and misuse. They both are developing—sometimes in parallel, sometimes diverg-ing, and sometimes converging—with varying degrees of insti-tutionalization and acceptance. This process is likely to continue for some time, with successes and failures enhancing or retarding that development. This book engages in a profound compara-tive analysis of the two norms and aims to serve policymakers at different levels (national, regional, and UN), practitioners with protective roles (force commanders, military trainers, strategists, and humanitarian actors), academics and researchers (in interna-tional relations, law, political theory, and ethics), civil society, and R2P and POC advocates.

Angus Francis is senior lecturer and program leader, Human Rights and Governance Program, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology. vesselin Popovski is senior academic officer and head of the “Peace and Security” section, Institute for Sustainability and Peace at the United Nations University. Charles Sampford is foundation dean and professor of law and research professor in ethics, Griffith University, and director of the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law.

January, 6 x 9, 388 pp. paper, 978-92-808-1218-3, $38.00 / £26.99

Exorcising the Demons WithinXenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South AfricaLoren B. Landau, ed.

On May 11, 2008, residents of Alexandra Township near

Johannesburg turned violently on their neighbors. Over the following two weeks, a string of attacks left sixty people dead, dozens raped, and over a hundred thousand displaced. Most of those killed were from beyond South Africa’s borders, but at least a third were citizens who, for reasons of ethnicity or political affili-ation, failed to protect their space in the country’s urban core. Exorcising the Demons Within explores these

events and the subsequent consequences for the order of power, population, and place.

The book makes sense of recent anti-outsider violence by situating it within an extended history of South African statecraft that both produced the conditions for the attacks and has been reshaped by it. Drawing on an interdisciplinary team of expert scholars and on new research, this is the first academic text to fully put into con-text the events that made global headlines in 2008.

Although not the most severe political violence in South Africa’s turbulent past, the 2008 attacks reflect an important moment in the country’s post-apartheid, post-authoritarian existence: a moment when the government’s legitimacy and the post-apart-heid order were called into question. This xenophobic violence made evident cracks in the cohesion of law and society while helping to redefine both.

Loren B. Landau is director of the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

June, 6 x 9, 296 pp. paper, 978-92-808-1215-2, $36.00 / £24.99

Not available through Brookings in Southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe)



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The Nuclear CrossroadsChina, India, and the New Paradigm

Lora Saalman, ed.

Global power is shifting to Asia. Asian “theaters” attract the bulk of global

arms spending. China, India, and Pakistan are building up their nuclear arsenals—as the United States, France, and the United Kingdom are building down. India and Pakistan are the only countries in the world producing new fissile material for weapons, and China is by far the world’s largest market for new nuclear energy production (while India aspires to be on a similar trajectory). Despite these trends, The Nuclear Crossroads is the first serious book by leading Chinese and Indian experts to examine the political, perceptual, military, and technical factors that affect the two countries’ nuclear relations.

Editor Lora Saalman and a broad field of expert contributors produce a construc-tive framework and comprehensive set of initiatives that China and India could pursue to enhance cooperation and minimize the unintended consequences of their security dilemmas. The Nuclear Crossroads will serve as a valuable resource for scholars, journalists, and government officials inter-ested in China, India, security studies, and international relations.

Lora Saalman is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Beijing.

September, 6 x 9, 240 pp. cloth, 978-0-87003-270-7, $49.95 / £34.99 paper, 978-0-87003-269-1, $19.95 / £13.99

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Russia in 2020Scenarios for the FutureMaria Lipman and Nikolay Petrov, eds.

As Vladimir Putin returns to the presidency following the 2012 elections, the prospects for Russia’s future are

unclear. Russia in 2020 brings together leading experts to analyze the possible scenarios for Russia’s development in the next decade and the risks that lie ahead.

Despite Putin’s return, the authors believe that the so-called Putin Era is over. This does not mean that Putin will soon give up power, but the political and economic system he created is incapable of dealing with Russia’s rapidly changing condi-tions. Crises are likely unavoidable unless Russia changes and modernizes.

Contents

Maria Lipman is an expert in the Society and Regions Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center and editor of the Center’s Pro et Contra journal. She has had a monthly op-ed column in the Washington Post since 2001. Nikolay Petrov is a scholar-in-residence in the Society and Regions Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center.

2011, 6 x 9, 704 pp. cloth, 978-0-87003-264-6, $49.95 / £34.99 paper, 978-0-87003-263-9, $19.95 / £13.99

I. Russia in the World 1. Russia and the World2. Russia in World-Systems Perspective3. Russia’s Foreign Policy Outlook4. Russia’s Place in the World of Unintended

Consequences, or Murphy’s Law and Order

5. Russia and the New “Transitional Europe”6. The South Caucasus in 2020

II. Political Economy and Economics 7. The “Third Cycle”: Is Russia Headed

Back to the Future?8. Russia’s Political Economy:

The Next Decade9. The Russian Economy to 2020: The

Challenge of Managing Rent Addiction10. The Russian Economy in Limbo

III. Political System11. Institution Building and “Institutional

Traps” in Russian Politics12. Transition as a Political Institution:

Toward 202013. Can the Machine Come to Life? Prospects

for Russia’s Party System in 202014. Scenarios for the Evolution of the

Russian Political Party System

IV. State15. The Excessive Role of a Weak

Russian State16. Center–Periphery Relations 17. The Continuing Revolution in Russian

Military Affairs: Toward 202018. The Armed Forces in 2020:

Modern or Soviet?

V. Regions19. Russia’s Regions and Cities20. Political Systems in the Russian

Regions in 202021. 2020: The Last Chance for the

North Caucasus?

VI. Society and Civil Society22. Society, Politics, and the Search

for Community in Russia 23. The Inertia of Passive Adaptation24. The Nomenklatura and the Elite25. The Evolution of Civic Activeness

VII. Ideology and Culture 26. Russia and the New “Russian World”27. Society and the State on the Internet

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In the Whirlwind of JihadMartha Brill Olcott

cloth, 978-0-87003-260-8, $49.95 / £34.99 paper, 978-0-87003-259-2, $19.95 / £13.99

25FALL 2012

The Iranian Nuclear CrisisA MemoirSeyed Hossein Mousavian

The first detailed Iranian account of the diplomatic struggle

between Iran and the international community, The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir opens in 2002, as news of Iran’s clandestine uranium enrichment and plutonium produc-tion facilities emerge. Seyed Hossein Mousavian, previously the head of the Foreign Relations Committee of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and spokesman for Tehran’s nuclear negotiating team, brings the reader into Tehran’s private deliberations as

its leaders wrestle with internal and external adversaries.

Mousavian provides readers with intimate knowledge of Iran’s interactions with the International Atomic Energy Agency and global powers. His personal story comes alive as he vividly recounts his arrest and interrogations on charges of espionage. Dramatic episodes of diplomatic missions tell much about the author and the swirling dynamics of Iranian politics and diploma-cy—undercurrents that must be understood now more than ever.

As intense debate continues over the direction of Iran’s nuclear program, Mousavian weighs the likely effects of military strikes, covert action, sanctions, and diplomatic engagement, consider-ing their potential to resolve the nuclear crisis.

Contents

Seyed Hossein Mousavian served as spokesman for Iran’s team in nuclear negotiations with the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency (2003–05) and is currently a visiting research scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School’s Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University.

June, 6 x 9, 600 pp. cloth, 978-0-87003-267-7, $49.95 / £34.99 paper, 978-0-87003-268-4, $19.95 / £13.99

Samudra ManthanSino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-PacificC. Raja Mohan

Rising China and emerging India are becoming major maritime powers. As they build large navies to secure their growing

interests, both nations are churning the waters of the Indo-Pacific—the vast littoral stretching from Africa to Australasia.

Invoking a tale from Indian mythology, Samudra Manthan (“to churn an ocean”), C. Raja Mohan tells the story of a Sino-Indian rivalry spilling over from the Himalayas into the Indian and Pacific Oceans. He examines the prospects for mitigating their com-petition in this arena. The United States also gets involved, as it attempts to expand its presence and influence in this strategi-cally important region.

Despite the huge differences in the current naval capabilities of China, India, and the United States, Mohan argues, the three countries are locked in a triangular dynamic destined to shape the strategic future of the Indo-Pacific. Samudra Manthan makes sense of that dynamic.

Contents1. Introduction2. The Structure of the Rivalry3. In Search of Sea Power4. Taking to the Blue Waters5. Maritime Nuclear Power 6. India’s Pacific Ambitions 7. China Eyes the Indian Ocean8. Circling the Strategic Islands9. Contesting the Littoral 10. Mitigating the Security Dilemma11. Ordering the Indo-Pacific 12. Samudra Manthan

C. Raja Mohan heads the strategic studies program at the Observer Research Foundation in Delhi. He is a columnist on foreign affairs for one of India’s leading English dailies, Indian Express, a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a visit-ing research professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Mohan has published widely and his books include Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India’s New Foreign Policy (2004) and Impossible Allies: Nuclear India, United States and the Global Order (2006).

September, 6 x 9, 360 pp. cloth, 978-0-87003-272-1, $49.95 / £34.99 paper, 978-0-87003-271-4, $19.95 / £13.99

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1. The Origin and Development of Iran’s Nuclear Program

2. The First Crisis3. From Tehran to Paris4. From the Paris Agreement

to the 2005 Presidential Election

5. The Larijani Period

6. To the Security Council7. Back to the Security

Council and a New Domestic Situation

8. Iran Alone: The Jalili Period9. U.S. Engagement10. The Crisis Worsens11. Conclusion

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Soft Power? The Means and Ends of Russian Influence Abroad

James Sherr

This book investigates Russian mecha-nisms designed to influence and attract

countries in the “Common Neighborhood” (Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, North Korea, Norway, Poland, and Ukraine) and beyond. An understanding of Russian influence abroad must include the growing component of soft power, but cannot be confined to it or bound by estab-lished Western definitions of the concept.

Synthesizing the findings of a Chatham House research project, Soft Power? reveals the ways Russia is attempting to develop informal networks, business links, state-corporate relations, cultural affinities, and linguistic ties with its neighbors and other politically important countries.

December, 6 x 9, 144 pp. paper, 978-1-86203-266-8, $25.95 / £17.99


Multi-tier NATOThe Atlantic Alliance in the 21st Century

Timo Noetzel and Tobias Bunde

This book argues that NATO has

developed into a fluid “multi-tier” alli-ance that is divided on many issues. The reformist tier wants NATO to act as a global guardian of a liberal world order. The neo-traditionalist

tier favors an alliance still focused on territo-rial defense in a traditional sense. The status quo tier is also skeptical about a globalized alliance but does not see the need to refo-cus on the European continent. Multi-tier NATO sheds light on the specific character-istics, security cultures, and strategic world-views in each tier.

October, 6 x 9, 200 pp. cloth, 978-1-86203-217-0, $44.95 / £30.00 paper, 978-1-86203-231-6, $25.95 / £17.99

NEW BOOKS | CHATHAM HOUSE

CHATHAM HOUSE REPORTS

Chatham House Reports are topical, policy-relevant publications on today’s key global challenges. They draw on the institute’s unique cross-cutting research expertise to offer new insights, fresh approaches, and specific recommendations. For further information on these and additional reports in the series, go to www.chathamhouse.org.uk/CHR.

Gold and the International Monetary SystemA Report by the Chatham House Gold Taskforce

Rapporteur: André Astrow

This report explores the advantages

and disadvantages of reintroducing gold to the current inter-national monetary system in the wake of the global financial crisis and identifies a number of possible scenarios for reform.

2012, 8 ¼ x 11 ¾, 48 pp. paper, 978-1-86203-260-6, $15.00 / £10.00

Shifting CapitalThe Rise of Financial Centres in Greater China

Paola Subacchi, Helena Huang, Alberta Molajoni, and Richard Varghese

This report highlights the rise of China’s financial power on the world stage,

focusing on the emergence of the four financial centres in the Greater China region (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Taipei). It analyzes the convergence of their financial systems and shows how the devel-opment of these cities is closely linked with China’s domestic financial reform as well as the RMB internationalization strategy.

November, 8 ¼ x 11 ¾, 60 pp. paper, 978-1-86203-262-0, $15.00 / £10.00

Turkmenistan under Berdimuhamedow Annette Bohr

This report offers the first compre-hensive account of the domestic and

foreign policies of Turkmenistan—one of the world’s most repressive states—since President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow took power in 2006. It identifies the primary drivers guiding Turkmenistan’s foreign policy and looks at its energy politics as one of the world’s major gas producers.

November, 8 ¼ x 11 ¾, 40 pp. paper, 978-1-86203-265-1, $15.00 / £10.00

The World’s Changing Industrial LandscapeDonald Hepburn

This report is the culmination of a research project that explores how the

global industrial landscape might change between now and 2020, the outlook for key global industries over the next decade, and the role of emerging “global champions.”

June, 8 ¼ x 11 ¾, 40 pp. paper, 978-1-86203-263-7, $15.00 / £10.00

Middle-Ranking Emerging Powers and Africa

While the roles of China, India, and increasingly Brazil in relation to Africa

attract much policy interest, the growing engagement of other “middle” emerging powers such as Turkey and South Korea receives little attention. This report takes contrasting case studies to question wheth-er the trend for diplomatic and economic outreach between African states and mid-dle-ranking emerging powers is sustainable.

November, 8 ¼ x 11 ¾, 40 pp paper, 978-1-86203-264-4, $15.00 / £10.00

CHATHAM HOuSE REPORTS

27FALL 2012

The EU Made SimpleAll You Need to Know about the European Union Fourth edition

T he EU Made Simple is a com-

prehensive introduc-tory guide to the European Union explained in easy-to-understand terms. Packed with the lat-est information, the guide also serves as a practical reference

book useful for anyone interested in the European Union and how it works.

This completely updated and revised publi-cation provides

• An in-depth introduction to the European institutions and EU policymaking

• A clear explanation of the EU’s responsibilities

• Contributions from key decisionmakers detailing their roles in the process

• A historical overview of the EU’s development

• A who’s who of key figures

• A jargon guide

• Diagrams, illustrations, maps, and much more.

August, 6 x 10, 170 pp. paper, 978-2-9146856-1-0, $35.00 / £20.00

Includes illustrations and maps

NEW BOOKS | AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO THE EUROPEAN UNION


EU Information Handbook 2011

The EU Information Handbook 2011

is a comprehensive guide to the European Union and its institu-tions. Packed with facts, figures, and contact details of thousands of EU offi-cials, this guide is a must-have for anyone

working or interested in EU affairs.

This clearly structured spiral bound refer-ence guide is easy to use and includes

• In-depth explanations of the role of the European institutions, with Lisbon Treaty updates

• Facts and figures on EU Member States and candidate countries

• Contact details of over 1,000 key EU officials, including commissioners, their cabinets and all departments (Directorates-General) and services, as well as members of the European Parliament and diplomatic missions

2012, 6 x 10, 346 pp. spiral bound paper, 978-2-914685-59-7 $75.00 / £50.00

Guide to the European Parliament 2012–2014

The Guide to the European

Parliament 2012–2014 is an easy-to-use guide to the workings and structure of the European Parliament. It contains:

• Full biographical details and photos of all 754 members of the European Parliament (MEPs)

• Contact details of all MEPs, including email addresses and office, phone, and fax numbers in Brussels and Strasbourg

• Explanations of legislative procedures

• Explanations of working acronyms

• Complete information on parliamentary committees

• Complete information on the structure of political groups

• Contact details for the secretariat general

2012, 5 x 8, 360 pp. spiral bound paper, 978-2-9146856-0-3 $65.00 / £40.00

The American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) is a Brussels-based business association. AmCham EU speaks for American companies committed to Europe on trade, investment, and competitiveness issues. It aims to ensure a growth-oriented business and investment climate in Europe. AmCham EU facilitates the resolution of transatlantic issues that impact business and plays a role in creating better understanding of EU and U.S. positions on business matters.


NEW BOOKS | THE CENTURY FOUNDATION PRESS

The Future of School IntegrationSocioeconomic Diversity as an Education Reform StrategyRichard D. Kahlenberg, ed.

Almost fifty years ago the Coleman Report, widely regarded as the

most important educational study of the twentieth century, found that the most powerful predictor of academic achievement is the socioeconomic status of a child’s family. The second most important predictor is the socio-economic status of the classmates in his or her school. Until very recently, the importance of this second find-ing has been consciously ignored by policymakers, and the national educa-tion debate has centered on trying

to “fix” high-poverty schools by pouring greater resources into them, paying educators more to teach in them, or turning them into charter schools. At the local level, however, eighty school districts educating four million students now consciously seek to integrate schools by socioeconomic status.

The Future of School Integration looks at how socioeconomic school integration has been pursued as a strategy to reduce the proportion of high-poverty schools and therefore to improve the performance of students overall. It examines whether stu-dents learn more in socioeconomically integrated schools—and pre-K programs—than in high-poverty institutions and explores the costs and benefits of integration programs. The book also investigates whether such integration is logistically and politically feasible, looking at the promises and pitfalls of both intradistrict and interdistrict integration programs. Finally, it examines the rel-evance of socioeconomic integration strategies being pursued by states and localities to the ongoing policy debates in Washington over efforts to turn around the nation’s lowest-performing schools and to improve the quality of charter schools.

Contributors include Stephanie Aberger (Expeditionary Learning), Marco Basile (Harvard University), Jennifer Jellison Holme (University of Texas–Austin), Ann Mantil (Harvard), Anne G. Perkins (Massachusetts Department of Higher Education), Jeanne L. Reid (Teachers College), Meredith P. Richards (University of Texas–Austin), Heather Schwartz (RAND), Kori J. Stroub (University of Texas–Austin), and Sheneka M. Williams (University of Georgia).

Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow for education at The Century Foundation. He is the author of All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings Press, 2001) and the editor of Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions (The Century Foundation Press, 2010) and Rewarding Strivers: Helping Low-Income Students Succeed in College (TCF Press, 2010).

2012, 6 x 9, 407 pp. paper, 978-0-87078-522-1, $29.95 / £20.99

Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil RightRebuilding a Middle-Class Democracy by Enhancing Worker VoiceRichard D. Kahlenberg and Moshe Z. Marvit Preface by Thomas Geoghegan

W hy Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right lays out the case

for a new approach, one that takes the issue beyond the confines of labor law by amending the Civil Rights Act so that it prohibits discrimination against workers trying to organize a union. The authors argue that this strategy would have two significant benefits. First, enhanced penalties under the Civil Rights Act would pro-vide a greater deterrent against the illegal firing of employees who try to organize. Second, as a political mat-

ter, identifying the ability to form a union as a civil right frames the issue in a way that Americans can readily understand.

“In these times when civil rights and workers rights are under simulta-neous attack, this book is a must read.”

—Benjamin Todd Jealous, NAACP president and CEO

“A persuasive roadmap for extending the protections of the Civil Rights Act to workers who want to organize a union.”

—Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers

“The growing disconnect between productivity and wages in America is not the result of some set of economic physical laws of nature, as some would have us believe, but instead directly linked to the political attacks by the right to undermine the laws of collective bargaining. . . . Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit’s prescription is just what our nation needs.”

—Amy B. Dean, principal of ABD Ventures, LLC, and former president and CEO, South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council

“This book couldn’t come at a better time—just as America is begin-ning to discuss how to address our record high economic inequality.”

—David Madland, Director, American Worker Project, Center for American Progress

Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation and author of Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007). Moshe Z. Marvit practices both labor and employment discrimination law and is pursuing a PhD in labor history at Carnegie Mellon University. Thomas Geoghegan is a labor lawyer based in Chicago and is the author of Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life (New Press, 2010).

2012, 6 x 9, 160 pp. paper, 978-0-87078-523-8, $19.95 / £13.99

Previously announced as Labor Organizing as a Civil Right


29FALL 2012

GreenprintA New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change

Arvind Subramanian and Aaditya Mattoo

Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries,

squeezed by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic and hence bargaining power between these countries, international cooperation on climate change has floundered. Given these three factors—which Arvind Subramanian and Aaditya Mattoo call the “narrative,” “adding up,” and “new world” problems—the wonder is not the current impasse; it is, rather, the belief that progress might be possible at all.

In this book, the authors argue that any chance of progress must address each of these problems in a radically different way. First, the old narrative of recrimination must cede to a narrative based on recogni-tion of common interests. Second, leaders must shift the focus away from emissions cuts to technology generation. Third, the old “cash-for-cuts” approach must be abandoned for one that requires contribu-tions from all countries calibrated in mag-nitude and form to their current level of development and future prospects.

Arvind Subramanian is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development with a joint appointment at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics. Aaditya Mattoo is the research manager for trade and integration at the World Bank.

October, 6 ¼ x 9 ½, 150 pp. paper, 978-1-933286-67-9, $17.95 / £11.99

Oil to CashFighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers

Todd Moss, Caroline Lambert, and Stephanie Majerowicz

What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? How should it

spend the subsequent cash windfall? How can it protect against corruption? How can citizens truly benefit from national wealth? With many of the world’s poorest and most fragile states suddenly joining the ranks of oil and gas producers, these are pressing policy questions.

Oil to Cash explores one option that may help avoid the so-called resource curse: just give the money directly to citizens. A universal, transparent, and regular cash transfer would not only provide a concrete benefit to regular people, but would also create powerful incentives for citizens to hold their government accountable. Oil to Cash details how and where this idea could work and how policymakers can learn from the experiences with cash transfers in places like Mexico, Mongolia, and Alaska.

Todd Moss is the vice president for programs and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD). Caroline Lambert is a Washington-based writer and former Johannesburg bureau chief at the Economist. Stephanie Majerowicz is a research assistant at CGD.


The Governor’s SolutionAlaska’s Oil Dividend and Iraq’s Last Window

Todd Moss, ed.

States that substantially increase their income through rents (profits from

the exportation of oil and other natural resources) often experience a subsequent increase in government corruption. Simply put, the people in power try to direct more of the money to themselves and prevent others from taking their place.

Seeking to lessen the negative effects of oil rents in Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: when citizens have a direct stake they pay close attention to where the money is going. The embodiment of his idea is the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend that, since 1982, has been distributing a portion of Alaska’s earnings to each resident.

The Governor’s Solution features a first-hand account by the late governor that describes, with brutal honesty and piercing humor, the birth of the dividend. Thirty years later, Hammond’s vision is still shap-ing the Center for Global Development’s oil-to-cash initiative to explore how cash transfers might mitigate the cor-rosive impact of oil rents. Accompanying Hammond’s story is recent work by schol-ars examining Alaska’s experience and how other oil-rich societies, particularly Iraq, might apply some of the lessons. This book serves as a powerful reminder that the combination of new ideas and determined individuals can make a tremendous differ-ence—even in issues as seemingly complex and intractable as fighting the oil curse.

Contributors include Todd Moss (Center for Global Development), Jay Hammond (governor of Alaska 1974–1982 and creator of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend), Scott Goldsmith (University of Alaska-Anchorage), Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development), Arvind Subramanian (Peterson Institute for International Economics and Center for Global Development), and Johnny West (journalist and founder of Open Oil).

Todd Moss is the vice president for programs and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.

October, 6 ¼ x 9 ½, 135 pp. paper, 978-1-933286-70-9, $17.95 / £11.99

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NEW BOOKS | THE JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION

The South Caucasus 2021Oil, Democracy and GeopoliticsFariz Ismailzade and Glen E. Howard, eds.

In The South Caucasus 2021 a team of international experts addresses

the most vital issues of the region. They offer their perspectives on top-ics such as territorial conflicts, oil and natural gas resources, and pipeline politics and provide important analy-sis of the geopolitical complexities of the region and the risks they pose in the coming decades. The authors also look at the volatile political state of the Caucasus-Caspian Basin, the role of religion, and demographic and migration prospects and discuss the

policy courses charted by the superpowers in response to devel-opments within the region.

Featuring chapters by Dmitri Trenin, Udo Steinbach, Ariel Cohen, Mustafa Aydin, Robert M. Cutler, and others, as well as an intro-duction by Dr. S. Frederick Starr, South Caucasus 2021 seeks to address not just where the region has been, but also where it is headed in terms of its security, intra- and extra-regional rela-tions, as well as political and economic development. The book is essential reading for students and researchers of post-Soviet history and Caucasus studies, sociology, Caspian Sea politics, political science and international relations, and areas of energy and economic issues.

Contributors include Ramiz Mehdiyev (National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan), S. Frederick Starr (Central Asia-Caucasus Institute), Elmir Guliyev (Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus), Rauf Garagozov (Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus), Vladimer Papava (Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies), John Roberts (Platts), Robert M. Cutler (Carleton University), Albert Bressand (Columbia University), Udo Steinbach (University of Hamburg), Mustafa Aydin (Kadir Has University), Ariel Cohen (Heritage Foundation), Kevin DeCorla-Souza (IFC International), Barry Rubin (Global Research in International Affairs Interdisciplinary Center), Gerard Libaridian (University of Michigan), Dmitri Trenin (Carnegie Moscow Center), Oksana Antonenko (International Institute for Strategic Studies), and Uwe Halbach (German Institute for Security and International Affairs).

Fariz Ismailzade is executive vice rector at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. Glen E. Howard is president of the Jamestown Foundation.

2012, 6 x 9, 354 pp. paper, 978-0-9816905-8-2, $24.95 / £16.99

Chinese Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) DevelopmentDrivers, Trajectories, and Strategic ImplicationsAndrew S. Erickson

China’s anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM), the DF-21D, has reached the equivalent of Initial Operational Capability. Although it

probably has been deployed in small numbers, additional chal-lenges and tests remain. This study examines the ASBM’s capability and history, showing how the DF-21D meets multiple priorities in Chinese defense modernization and in the national security bureau-cracy, as well its implications for the United States.

The ASBM’s physical threat to U.S. Navy ships will be determined by the development of associated systems and organizations, which currently limit data fusion and coordination in the com-plex task of identifying a U.S. aircraft carrier in the open ocean. Still, the ASBM poses a direct threat to the foundations of U.S. power project in Asia and will undermine the U.S. position, unless efforts to counter its political-military effects are taken.

Andrew S. Erickson is an associate professor in the Strategic Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College and a founding member of the department’s China Maritime Studies Institute.

June, 8 ½ x 11, 110 pp. paper, 978-0-9830842-6-6, $20.00 / £13.99

Beijing Ponders NATO Military Withdrawal from AfghanistanRichard Weitz

This report provides an overview and analysis of the vigorous debate over Afghanistan in Chinese foreign policy circles.

Beijing does not want permanent U.S. or NATO bases on China’s western frontiers. However, it fears NATO will withdraw prema-turely from Afghanistan, leaving China to address the regional repercussions of Afghan instability. The Chinese also do not want to assume the main burden of supporting Pakistan, even as Beijing is unwilling to provide much support to the NATO mission.

China is struggling to avert bad policy outcomes in Afghanistan without compromising long-held foreign policy principles. As this report reveals, thus far those struggles have not led to a clear deci-sion about China’s interests and the resulting steps to secure them.

Richard Weitz is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute and a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.

2012, 8 ½ x 11, 65 pp. paper, 978-0-9830842-7-3, $20.00 / £13.99

31FALL 2012

NEW BOOKS | ECONOMICA

Boko Haram in West AfricaAl Qaeda’s Next Frontier? Jacob Zenn

This report addresses the regional rami-fications of the rise of Boko Haram and

evaluates the jihadist terrorist organiza-tion as something more than a domestic Nigerian movement. The report discusses Boko Haram’s regional connections and the possibility of it expanding throughout West Africa.

The architecture for Boko Haram to become an al Qaeda wing in West Africa or part of a regional terrorist movement may already be in place. The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) shares the same goal as Boko Haram and is also dominated by Hausa-speaking members. Armed with weapons from Libya’s caches and possessing opera-tional ties to an Algerian-based al Qaeda faction, MOJWA may be the link between Boko Haram in Nigeria and a broader Boko Haram regional movement. The expan-sion of these terrorists in West Africa, and the possibility of Boko Haram franchising, could present a future threat to Western business interests in the area and under-mine the region’s fledgling democracies.

Jacob Zenn is an analyst for the Jamestown Foundation focusing on Nigeria and Central Asia and has contributed international affairs articles for publications such as Asia Times, Hürriyet, Yemen Times, and the CTC Sentinel.

2012, 8 ½ x 11, 45 pp. paper, 978-0-9830842-5-9, $20.00 / £13.99

The Ethical Challenges of the SoldierThe French ExperienceGeneral Benoit Royal

When a soldier engages in warfare, he enters a world that borders on absolute evil and has nothing to do with

everyday life. He is confronted by real issues of conscience, the solutions to which are not to be found in military regula-tions. How does he find answers to such questions without departing from his mission? How to react without losing his soul or suffering irreparable psychological damage? How to fight while respecting other people’s dignity?

Drawing on more than a hundred specific real-life cases and situations, both recent and from the past, Brigadier General Benoit Royal provides a firm ethical foundation along with ref-erence points to help commanders in the field find solutions to these dilemmas. In conflict situations that are humanly

unacceptable and often close to unbearable, only sound ethical principles, imprinted in the mind very early in training, will enable military leaders to give meaning to their actions and remain at peace with their consciences.

Brigadier General Benoit Royal, trained at Saint-Cyr, accumulated extensive wartime experience while serving with the French Marines. He currently commands the recruitment division of the French Army and is an associate researcher in the professional ethics division of the Saint-Cyr Coetquidan Research Centre.

May, 6 x 9 ½, 196 pp. paper, 978-2-7178-6456-4, $26.95 / £18.99


Global Sustainability and the Responsibilities of UniversitiesLuc E. Weber and James J. Duderstadt, eds.

Global Sustainability and the Responsibilities of Universities discusses not only how research universities are adapting

to the imperatives of global sustainability (e.g., social diver-sity, resource management, academic programs, research and scholarship), but also how they can develop new curricula, student experiences, research paradigms, social engagement, and international alliances to better address the challenges of global sustainability while producing globally identified citi-zens. The contributors also consider the implications of these profound economic, demographic, technological, and political changes for the sustainability of the research university itself.

Luc E. Weber is rector emeritus of the University of Geneva. James J. Duderstadt is president emeritus of the University of Michigan.

February, 6 x 9, 300 pp. cloth, 978-2-7178-6113-6, $59.95 / £39.99


Time to Set Banking Regulation RightJacopo Carmassi and Stefano Micossi

Excessive leverage and risk taking

by large interna-tional banks were the main causes of the 2008–09 financial crisis and the ensu-ing sharp drop in economic activity and employment. World

leaders and central bankers promised that it would not happen again and, to this end, undertook to overhaul banking regulation, first and foremost by rectifying Basel pru-dential rules.

This study argues that the new Basel III Accord and the ensuing EU Capital Requirements Directive IV fail to correct the two main shortcomings of international prudential rules: reliance on banks’ risk management models for the calculation of capital requirements and the lack of accountability by supervisors. Accordingly, the authors propose the calculation of capi-tal requirements without risk adjustment and creation of a system of mandated action by supervisors modeled on the U.S. framework of Prompt Corrective Action. They also recommend that banks should be required to issue large amounts of deben-tures that are convertible into equity in order to strengthen market discipline on management and shareholders.

Jacopo Carmassi is an economist at Assonime (the Association of Joint Stock Companies incorporated in Italy). Stefano Micossi is direc-tor general of Assonime, visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, member of the board of directors of CEPS, and chairman of the board of the CIR Group.

August, 6 ¾ x 9 ½, 80 pp. paper, 978-94-6138-175-0, $30.00 / £17.00

NEW BOOKS | CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES (CEPS)

Price Formation in Commodities Spot and Futures MarketsDiego Valiante and Christian Egenhofer, eds.

The current rapid rise of commodity prices comes at a critical moment, as

European and U.S. economies stagger in their attempts to regain ground lost in the recent financial crisis. Facing mounting worries and anger from both policy makers and the public, regulators at the most recent G20 summit agreed to address com-modity price volatility worldwide. They are bringing forward a number of proposals to improve the regulation, functioning, and transparency of commodity markets.

This book collects the findings of a task force composed of financial and non-financial firms as well as regulators and academics. It sheds new light on price formation mechanisms in spot and future commodities markets and highlights key drivers of price formation in main com-modities markets.

Diego valiante is head of research at the European Capital Markets Institute, an indepen-dent research institute run by CEPS. Christian Egenhofer is senior research fellow and head of the Energy and Climate program at CEPS, as well as visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin, Warsaw; at Sciences Po in Paris; and at the LUISS University in Rome.

August, 6 ¾ x 9 ½, 100 pp. paper, 978-94-6138-183-5, $30.00 / £17.00

Rethinking Asset ManagementFrom Financial Stability to Investor Protection and Economic Growth

Mirzha de Manuel Aramendía and Karel Lannoo

The Alternative Investment Fund

Managers Directive (AIFMD), adopted in 2011, aims to reshape the asset manage-ment industry in Europe. Despite often being depicted as the “hedge-fund directive,” the AIFMD

embodies in substance the basic regula-tory framework for asset management in Europe. The directive paves the ground for investment funds and investment mandates to grow in size and importance as Europe reduces its historical reliance on banks.

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the future of the investment management industry in Europe after the subprime crisis and the subsequent regulatory response. It considers in four separate chapters

• Selected issues of financial stability related to investment funds

• Product structuring and the use of derivatives in mutual funds

• Distribution; investor choice; and inves-tor protection, including disclosure and investment advice; and the contribution of asset management to economic growth, including long-term and responsible investing

Mirzha de Manuel Aramendía, a lawyer and economist, is a researcher at the European Capital Markets Institute, an independent research institute run by CEPS in Brussels. Karel Lannoo is chief executive officer of CEPS.

August, 6 ¾ x 9 ½, 216 pp. paper, 978-94-6138-180-4, $30.00 / £17.00

33FALL 2012

The Sovereign Debt CrisisPlacing a Curb on Growth

Anton Brender, Florence Pisani, and Emile Gagna

To ward off the threat of a world-

wide depression that loomed at the end of the 2000s, govern-ments opted to run up substantial fiscal deficits. In doing so, they sowed the seeds of the sovereign debt

crisis. Saddled with often high debt bur-dens and modest growth prospects, devel-oped countries must now rebalance their government budgets. Doing so too rapidly, however, would choke growth.

Faced with this dilemma, Japan and the United States have pursued growth policies while the euro-area members are quickly trying to rebalance their budgets. This book explores the respective risks associ-ated with these two strategies. It further investigates the consequences for the international monetary and financial sys-tem of developing countries’ public debts ceasing to be risk free.

Anton Brender, Florence Pisani, and Emile Gagna are economists with Dexia Asset Management. Anton Brender and Florence Pisani teach at Paris-Dauphine University.

August, 6 ¾ x 9 ½, 136 pp. paper, 978-94-6138-182-8, $30.00 / £17.00

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED

SyncretizationThe Politics of Corporate Restructuring and System Reform in JapanKenji Kushida, Kay Shimizu, and Jean C. Oi, eds.

Japan’s post-war economic miracle came to an abrupt halt in the early 1990s,

leading to a prolonged period of economic stagnation. During this trying period, as the Japanese political economy struggled to adapt to a rapidly evolving global environ-ment, scholars focused on the question: Has Japan changed?

The contributors to this volume move beyond this old question of change or no change. Each chapter examines a differ-ent aspect of Japan’s political economy within a longer trajectory and from multiple angles to depict a flexible but resilient system. The book characterizes Japan’s process of change as syncretization: prac-tices foreign, domestic, old, and new were selectively adopted, mixed, and matched, creating a new and unique hybrid system.

Contributors include Robert Eberhart (Stanford University), Kenji Kushida (Stanford University), Gregory Noble (University of Tokyo), Ulrike Schaede (University of California San Diego), Kay Shimizu (Columbia University), and Yves Tiberghien (University of British Columbia).

Kenji Kushida is the 2010–2011 Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Kay Shimizu is assistant professor in Columbia University’s Department of Political Science. Jean C. Oi is William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics in the Department of Political Science and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.


DynastyThe Hereditary Succession Politics of North KoreaKim Hakjoon

Scholar and journal-ist Kim Hakjoon’s

latest book on North Korea is a timely analysis of the rise of the Kim Il Sung family dynasty and the poli-tics of leadership suc-cession in Pyongyang. It includes coverage of the death of Kim

Jong Il and the advent of his young son Kim Jong Eun as the new supreme leader.

Drawing on official North Korean state-ments and leaked confidential documents, journalistic accounts, defector reports, and the observations of foreigners, the book synthesizes virtually all that is known about the history of the secretive family and how it operates within a bizarre governing system. Particularly valuable for a Western audience is the author’s extensive use of South Korean studies of the Kim family, many of which have never been translated into English. Dynasty is insightful reading for officials, journalists, scholars, and stu-dents interested in the Korean Peninsula and its prospects.

Kim Hakjoon is chairman of the Board of Trustees of DanKook University in South Korea. He previ-ously served as the president of the University of Incheon and president of the Korean Political Science Association.

August, 6 x 9, 260 pp. paper, 978-1-931368-30-8, $28.95 / £19.99

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Only Beautiful, PleaseA British Diplomat in North Korea

John Everard

paper 978-1-931368-25-4, $18.95 / £12.99

PeacemakerTwenty Years of Inter-Korean Relations and the North Korean Nuclear Issue

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paper 978-1-931368-27-8, $28.95 / £19.99

Troubled TransitionNorth Korea’s Politics, Economy and External Relations

Sang-Hun Choe, Gi-Wook Shin, and David Straub, eds.

paper 978-1-931368-28-5, $28.95 / £19.99


Rethinking National Identity in the Age of MigrationThe Transatlantic Council on Migration

Greater mobility and migration

have brought about unprecedented levels of diversity, trans-forming communities on both sides of the Atlantic in fundamen-tal ways and sparking uncertainty over who “we” are in a society.

Yet, while a consensus may be emerg-ing as to what has not worked well, little thought has been given to developing a new organizing principle for community cohesion. Such a vision needs to smooth divisions between immigration’s “winners and losers,” blunt extremism, and respond smartly to changing community and national identities.

This volume examines the lessons that can be drawn from various approaches to immigrant integration and managing diver-sity in North America and Europe. It deliv-ers recommendations on what policymakers must do to build and reinforce inclusive-ness given the realities in both regions. It offers insights into the next generation of policies that can (re)build inclusive soci-eties and bring immigrants and natives together in pursuit of shared futures.

Copublished with the Migration Policy Institute

December, 6 x 9, 200 pp. paper, 978-3-86793-427-5, $33.00 / £20.00

Megatrends in Global Interaction

We inhabit an increasingly

interconnected world. Yet too often policy-makers and advisers view each issue in a vacuum, focusing primarily on short-term impacts. All of us—policymakers, local and global com-

munities, and individual citizens—must begin to consider how the major trends that shape our world are likely to develop and how they will intersect and influence one another.

This volume explores and discusses cor-relations between these global trends, or megatrends: global governance, demo-graphic change and migration, energy and natural resources, global security, biodiversity, and economic globalization. The book’s primary focus is to provide a qualitative overview of the trends, and to analyze their intersections and interdepen-dencies in the 21st century. It aims to help define some of the complex challenges and exciting opportunities shaping a world of sustainable economies and societies.

October, 6 x 9, 300 pp. paper, 978-3-86793-434-3, $42.00 / £26.00

Change AheadSustainable Governance in BRICS

With impres-sive economic

growth, increasing middle classes, and immense hunger for energy and raw materials, the BRICS nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—are on their way to

changing the political and economic map of our world. Due to economic stagnation across traditional industrialized nations, there is a growing tendency among inves-tors to focus on this group of states char-acterized by highly dynamic development and promising markets. Their increased significance already is reflected in arenas of international politics such as the G-20, United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, where they claim ever more influence.

What exactly are the key elements for the success stories of these countries? What kind of differences and similarities in their political management may be identified? What are the barriers to their sustainable development? Change Ahead answers those questions through an extensive set of Sustainable Governance Indicators, which help systematically record and com-pare the political performance and gover-nance capacities of the BRICS nations. With the participation of an international net-work of experts, this comprehensive study results in a detailed profile of the strengths and weaknesses of their political systems.

October, 6 x 9, 200 pp. paper, 978-3-86793-435-0, $33.00 / £20.00

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Managing Borders in an Increasingly Borderless WorldDemetrios G. Papademetriou and Randall Hansen, eds.

As borders become increasingly

fluid in a globalized world, border secu-rity remains at the heart of public and policymaker concerns about immigration. This volume brings together perspectives from both sides of

the Atlantic on what border security means in practice. It addreses the challenges that continue to evade policymakers and assesses which policies have been most—and least—successful in achieving “secure” borders while also allowing for the move-ment of people and commerce.

From border dynamics and drug trafficking in Central America to challenges to the asylum regime in Europe, this book offers a thought-provoking and well-rounded account of how borders are interpreted and managed in diverse settings.

Contributors include Elizabeth Collett (MPI), Brian Grant (former director general, International and Intergovernmental Relations, Citizenship and Immigration Canada), Chris Sands (Hudson Institute), Kay Hailbronner (chair of Public Law, Public International Law and European Law, University of Konstanz), Ralph Espach (director of Latin American Affairs, Center for Naval Analyses), Daniel Haering (director del Centro de Investigación Internacional Ibn Khaldún de la Universidad Francisco Marroquín), and David Shirk (director, Trans-Border Institute, University of San Diego).

Demetrios G. Papademetriou is the president and cofounder of MPI. Randall Hansen is a political scientist and historian at the University of Toronto.


Young Children of Black Immigrants in AmericaChanging Flows, Changing Faces

Randy Capps and Michael Fix, eds.

This book examines the well-being

and development of children in black immigrant families (most with parents from Africa and the Caribbean). There are 1.3 million such children in the United States. While children

in these families account for 11 percent of all black children in America and represent a rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population, they remain largely ignored by researchers. To address this impor-tant gap in knowledge, the Migration Policy Institute’s (MPI) National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy embarked on a project to study these children from birth to age ten.

Chapters include analysis of the changing immigration flow to the United States; the role of family and school relationships in the well-being of African immigrant chil-dren; exploration of the effects of ethnicity and foreign-born status on infant health; and parenting behavior, health, and cogni-tive development among children in black immigrant families.

Randy Capps is a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. Michael Fix is senior vice president and director of studies at MPI.

July, 6 x 9, 320 pp. paper, 978-0-9831591-1-7, $44.95 / £29.99

Immigrants in a Changing Labor MarketResponding to Economic Needs

Michael Fix, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, and Madeleine Sumption, eds.

This volume, which brings together

research by leading economists and labor market specialists and examines the role immigrants play in the U.S. workforce, how they fare in good and bad economic times, and the effects

they have on native-born workers and the labor sectors in which they are engaged. The book traces the powerful economic forces at play in today’s globalized world and includes policy prescriptions for mak-ing the American immigration system more responsive to labor market needs.

Chapters examine employment outcomes for low-skilled, middle-skilled, and high-skilled workers; assess the economic effects of illegal immigration; trace immigrants’ trajectories in the construction, health care, hospitality, and information technology sec-tors; and detail the impact of immigration in recession and economic expansion.

Immigrants in a Changing Labor Market is the product of the Migration Policy Institute’s Labor Markets Initiative, which provides a comprehensive, policy-focused review of the role of immigration in the labor market. The initiative produces detailed policy recommendations on how the United States should rethink its immi-gration policy in the light of what is known about the economic impact of immigra-tion—bearing in mind the current context of the economic crisis, growing income inequality, concerns about the effect of globalization on U.S. competitiveness, the competition for highly skilled migrants, and demographic and technological change.

Michael Fix is senior vice president and director of studies at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). Demetrios G. Papademetriou is the president and cofounder of MPI. Madeleine Sumption is a policy analyst at MPI.

July, 6 x 9, 200 pp. paper, 978-0-9831591-0-0, $29.95 / £20.99

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Trade and the Internet are turning us into global citizens, but the news we

need to ensure accountability is often stopped at national borders. China is ramping up censorship, Iran is jailing dozens of journalists, and Turkey is using nationalist laws to stifle critical report-ing. In Mexico criminals are dictating the news, while in Pakistan shadowy agents are attacking investigative reporters.

Attacks on the Press analyzes press conditions and documents new dan-gers in more than 100 countries world-

wide. In the Americas, national leaders are building elaborate

state media operations to dominate the news and amplify their personal agendas. In European and African nations, authorities are invoking national security laws and deploying intelligence services to intimidate the press. Compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent nonprofit organization, Attacks on the Press is the world’s most comprehensive guide to international press freedom.

Sandra Mims Rowe is chairwoman of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Former editor of The Oregonian of Portland, she has twice been named editor of the year by U.S. journalism organizations. Joel Simon is executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

2012, 6 x 9, 350 pp. paper, 978-0-944823-31-6, $30.00 / £20.99

Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008 generated wide-spread hope that the United States was entering a new era

whereby government, in a reversal of Ronald Reagan’s famous dic-tum, would be the solution to the nation’s manifold problems amid the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The Obama election slogan of “Yes We Can” seemed to voice a hope that new leadership would put right what had gone wrong with America. Anticipating a new era of government activism, some com-mentators read the death rites on “The Age of Reagan,” the post-1980 anti-statist trend of American politics. Within a short time, however, “Yes We Can” gave way to “No We Can’t,” as America’s government became enmeshed in gridlock and political polarization.

The contributors to Broken Government? add their voices to the debate on whether American government truly is broken and, if so, what can be done to fix it.

Contents1. Introduction: Is American Government Broken?2. “Hail Gridlock”? 3. What’s Wrong with Congress and What Should

Be Done About It?

4. Singularity, Separation, and Sharing5. Tenure Reform and Presidential Power6. The Politics of the U.S. Budget7. Losing Voice, Losing Trust8. Two Years of Achievement and Strife: The Democrats and

the Obama Presidency, 2009–20109. The Rise of the Tea Party Movement and American Governance

Contributors include Edward Ashbee (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark), Nigel Bowles (Rothermere American Institute and St Anne’s College, Oxford University), John A. Clark (Western Michigan University), Niall Palmer (Brunel University), Andrew Rudalevige (Dickinson College), Brian Schaffner (University of Massachusetts), James A. Thurber (Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University), and Alex Waddan (University of Leicester).

Iwan Morgan is professor of United States Studies and head of U.S. Programmes at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. Philip John Davies is director of the British Library’s Eccles Centre for American Studies.

September, 6 x 9, 230 pp. paper, 978-1-908857-02-6, $18.95 / £12.50

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Broken Government? American Politics in the Obama EraIwan Morgan and Philip John Davies, eds.

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OECD Factbook 2013Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics

OECD Factbook 2013 is the

newest edition of a comprehensive and dynamic statistical annual publication with more than 100 indicators covering

• Agriculture

• Economic Production

• Education

• Energy

• Environment

• Foreign Aid

• Health

• Industry

• Information and Communications

• International Trade

• Labor Force

• Population

• Taxation

• Public Expenditure

• Research and Development

The Factbook provides data for all OECD member countries including regional area totals, and in some cases for selected nonmember economies including Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, and South Africa. For each indicator there is a two-page spread: A text page includes a short introduction followed by a detailed defini-tion of the indicator, comments on compa-rability of the data, an assessment of long-term trends related to the indicator, and a list of references for further information on the indicator. The opposite page con-tains a table and a graph providing, at a glance, the key message conveyed by the data. A dynamic link (StatLink) for each table directs the user to a web page where the corresponding data is available in Excel® format.

December, 7 x 10 ½, 292 pp. paper, 978-92-64-17706-2, $70.00

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2012

The world is fac-ing major global

economic changes and challenges. Economies are recov-ering with varying degrees of success from the most severe downturn since the Great Depression; international competi-

tion from new players is eroding the lead of more established economies; and environ-mental pressures are calling into question the sustainability of our development mod-els over time.

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2012 provides the statistical information necessary to define effective responses to these challenges. It reveals how countries are tackling these issues individually and which approaches are working. It also details the effects of the crisis on innovation and points to ways innovation can help solve environmental and social problems.

The book reviews key trends in science, technology, and innovation (STI) in OECD countries and a number of major nonmem-ber economies including Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, the Russian Federation, and South Africa. It aims to inform policymakers responsible for STI policy, business representatives, and analysts about recent and anticipated changes in the worldwide patterns of STI and to understand the possible implica-tions for policies at both the global and national levels.

September, 7 x 10 ½, 280 pp. paper, 978-92-64-17032-2, $84.00

Perspectives on Global Development 2013New Strategies for Development

During the past decade, the

global economic center of gravity has shifted eastward and southward, creat-ing new opportuni-ties for economic cooperation, trade, and investment, but also new challenges.

This shifting wealth is a game changer for economic policy and is at the center of the Perspectives on Global Development series, which documents the phenomenon and analyzes its implications for social cohesion and productive growth strategies.

The 2013 edition discusses the challenges and opportunities that the new global scenario and shifting wealth are opening in developing countries. The rise of emerg-ing economies is transforming patterns of trade and consumption worldwide. Yet, these new economic opportunities are marred by concerns about the sustainabili-ty of current growth patterns and structural weaknesses in developing countries. In this context, sequenced and coordinated poli-cies become crucial. This report explores the role of deliberate national productive growth strategies to enable the structural changes required to achieve inclusive and sustainable development.

November, 7 x 10 ½, 250 pp. paper, 978-92-64-17711-6, $84.00

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OECD Economic SurveysUnited States 2012

OECD Economic Surveys are the OECD’s periodic reviews of member and selected nonmember economies. These reports

provide analysis of developments in the subject country, special reports on topics of current interest, and extensive statistical information. They place an emphasis on comparing the situation in the subject country with those in the full OECD community.

The edition provides a comprehensive analysis of recent devel-opments, policies, and prospects in the United States. The book features special chapters on labor-market policies and innova-tion, along with individual chapters on key economic challenges. For each policy area, a series of recommendations is made. This book includes StatLinks, URLs linking tables and graphs to Excel® spreadsheets with the underlying data.


Preparing Teachers and Developing School Leaders for the 21st Century Lessons from around the World

Nations around the world are undertaking wide-ranging reforms to better prepare children for the higher educational

demands of life and work in the 21st century. What are the skills that young people will need in a rapidly changing society, and what competencies do teachers need to effectively teach those skills? What can teacher preparation and continuing professional development do to prepare graduates to teach well in tomor-row’s classroom? What are the different roles and responsibilities of upcoming school leaders, and how do countries succeed in developing these leaders?

To help governments effectively address these and other key issues, the U.S. Department of Education, the OECD, and Education International brought education ministers, union leaders, and other teacher leaders together in the second International Summit on the Teaching Profession in March 2012. This publication summarizes the evidence that underpinned the summit and highlights its conclusions.


OECD Internet Economy Outlook 2012

Evolving from a data network of wire-connected PCs to a much broader network of portable devices, from mobile phones to

tablet computers, the Internet has become funda-mental infra-structure supporting the economy. It is also on the cusp of a much larger expansion, to objects that until now did not typically have communications capabilities, such as household appliances and items of clothing. The “Internet of things” is projected to have more connections than the people using it. This raises many important socioeconomic and political issues, as economies and societies become increasingly intermeshed.

Supported by time series data, this publication begins with an overview of trends. It highlights how the Internet sector has proven to be resilient during the recent economic crisis. It then examines the various drivers and impacts of Internet use and deployment, as well as emerging technologies, e-health, digital content, security and privacy, and it also reflects on a methodol-ogy for measuring the Internet economy.


Redefining “Urban”A New Way to Measure Metropolitan Areas

This publication presents a new OECD methodology for defin-

ing “urban,” one that enables cross-country comparison of the socioeconomic and environmental performance of metropolitan areas. It applies this methodology to twenty-seven OECD countries, and it includes case studies of urbanization dynamics in China, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

September, 6 x 8, 90 pp. paper, 978-92-64-17405-4, $37.00

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Education at a Glance 2012 OECD Indicators

Education at a Glance is the

authoritative source for accurate and rel-evant information on the state of educa-tion in the OECD’s 34 member countries, as well as a number of nonmember G-20 nations. The 2012

edition features more than 100 charts, 200 tables, and 90,000 data.

In this comprehensive volume, new indicators focus on

• The effect of the global economic crisis on education expenditures

• The state of early childhood education systems around the world

• Intergenerational mobility in higher education among different socioeconomic groups

• The impact of education on macroeconomic outcomes, such as GDP

• How trends in education spending are affected by variations in teachers’ salaries, class size, instruction time, and teaching time across countries

• Career expectations among boys and girls at age 15, as compared to higher education outcomes

• The makeup of the teaching force in different countries and the training requirements for entering the teaching profession

• The pathways and gateways to gain access to secondary and tertiary education


Trends Shaping Education 2012

What does the increas-

ing diversity of our societies mean for education? How is global economic power shifting toward new countries? In what ways are work patterns chang-ing? Trends Shaping

Education 2012 brings together interna-tional evidence to address questions such as these.

Each trend is presented in an accessible double-page format containing an intro-duction, two charts with brief descriptive text, and a set of pertinent questions. The trends presented are based on high-quality international data. The charts contain dynamic links (StatLinks) so that readers can access the original data online.

This book is designed to give policymakers, researchers, educational leaders, admin-istrators, and teachers a robust, nonspe-cialist source to inform strategic thinking and stimulate reflection on the challenges facing education, whether in schools, uni-versities, or programs for older adults. It will also be of interest to students and the wider public, including parents.


Education Today 2012The OECD Perspective

What does the OECD have to say about the state of education today? What

are the main OECD messages on early childhood education, teacher policies, and tertiary education? What about student performance, educational spending, and equity in education? OECD’s work on these and other important education topics have been brought together in a single acces-sible source.

Organized into eight chapters, Education Today 2012 examines early childhood edu-cation, schooling, transitions beyond initial education, higher education, adult learning, outcomes and returns, equity, and innova-tion. The chapters are structured around key findings and policy directions emerging from recent OECD educational analyses. Each entry highlights the main message in a concise and accessible way, with a brief explanation and reference to the original OECD source.

Education Today 2012 will be an invalu-able resource for all those interested in the broad international picture of education, as well as for those wanting to know more about OECD work in this important domain.


OECD COuNTRIES

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

OECD books are not available through Brookings in Europe and the UK.


Confronting FinanceMobilizing the 99% for Economic and Social Progress

Nicolas Pons-Vignon and Phumzile Ncube, eds.

As poverty and inequality are

rising to alarming levels in Europe, the continent seems at a loss to respond. Political leaders appear content to liquidate the social gains made by workers’ struggles. A small minority asso-

ciated with the financial sector, possibly even smaller than one percent, stands to benefit from a deepening of neoliberalism.

This new anthology of essays from the Global Labour Column explores Europe’s turmoil and challenges the deep-rooted consequences of neoliberalism in the North and the South. It sheds light on new move-ments and ideas that are emerging to defend and mobilize workers, and it points to encouraging new policies and directions that could lay the foundations of a new order that would have decent work and life at its core. Many of these innovations come from the South, and the North may have much to learn from them.

Nicolas Pons-vignon is senior research fellow with the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development (CSID) research programme, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is the editor of the Global Labour Column and founder and course director of the annual African Programme for Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE; http://www.aporde.org.za). Phumzile Ncube is an associate researcher with the CSID research programme, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

June, 6 ¼ x 9 ½, 150 pp. paper, 978-92-2-126213-8, $30.00

Building a Sustainable Job-Rich Recovery

Building a Sustainable

Job-Rich Recovery examines the origins of the deep financial and economic crisis that hit the world economy in 2008 and that continues to shape labor market performance across

the globe. The report discusses general lessons to be learned from financial crises as well as the role of global imbalances that have taken a prominent place in the cur-rent crisis. It then presents global stimulus measures and assesses their effectiveness, comparing them with earlier examples in Argentina and the Republic of Korea. Finally, the report provides an overview of policy measures to maintain the recov-ery momentum in times of increasingly reduced policy space, focusing on the importance of quality job creation and demand-led initiatives to build a sustain-able job-rich recovery.

2012, 6 ¼ x 9 ½, 98 pp. paper, 978-92-9014-984-2, $28.00

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World of Work Report 2012Better Jobs for a Better Economy

The World of Work Report provides

a comprehensive analysis of recent labor market and social trends, assesses risks of social unrest, and presents employment projections for the next five years. The report addresses

the following questions:

• To what extent has the slow recovery aggravated social conditions, including falling incomes, deepening poverty, and worsening inequality?

• Have countries gone too far, too fast with fiscal consolidation? How should they support recovery while meeting fiscal goals in the medium term?

• What can be expected from recent labor market reforms?

• How can investment be boosted so as to ensure a long-lasting recovery in both the economy and jobs?

• What have been the barriers to imple-menting a more job-centered and equity-enhancing policy approach? Why has the business-as-usual scenario maintained its centrality despite the increasing risk of social unrest?

The report calls for a policy approach that takes into consideration the urgent need to create quality jobs and also lays the ground for a more productive, fairer economy and labor market.

May, 8 ¼ x 11 ¾, 120 pp. paper, 978-92-9251-009-1, $50.00

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Towards a Greener EconomyThe Social Dimensions

In reaction to the 2008 global financial

crisis, the European Commission and the ILO combined efforts to examine policies that will lead not only to a quicker recovery but also to a more sustainable, envi-ronmentally friendly,

and equitable global economy. This report aims to promote a clearer understanding of the nature of the green economy and its implications for labor markets, especially the reallocation of jobs from high- to low-polluting sectors.

The report demonstrates that a double dividend in terms of increased decent work opportunities and a greener economy is possible, provided that complementari-ties among environmental, economic, and social policies are adequately exploited. It discusses the green policy measures that EU countries are currently undertaking, with a view to identifying any gaps in the policy mix. It also presents model estimates on the likely transmission mechanisms aris-ing from these measures.

2012, 6 ¼ x 9 ½, 102 pp. paper, 978-92-9014-986-6, $28.00

Protecting the PoorA Microinsurance Compendium Volume 2

Craig Churchill and Michal Matul, eds.

This volume pro-vides a synthesis

of new trends and practices in the growing market of microinsurance. It covers the numerous innovations that have emerged in recent years to meet the challenges of provid-

ing insurance to low-income people, from new products and delivery channels to consumer education tools. The book also reviews institutional changes in regulations, providers, and schemes.

“This insightful compendium makes a critical contribution to advancing financial inclusion and the impact of microinsurance around the globe.”

—Yoshi Kawai, secretary general, International Association of Insurance Supervisors

As the microinsurance community dra-matically evolves and millions more low-income households have access to better insurance, Protecting the Poor will be an invaluable resource for policymakers and practitioners alike.

Craig Churchill is senior technical officer of the Social Finance Programme at ILO. Michal Matul heads the Knowledge Team of the ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility.

Copublished with Munich Re Foundation

2012, 6 ¼ x 9 ½, 640 pp. cloth, 978-92-2-125744-8, $110.00

Labour in the Global SouthChallenges and Alternatives for Workers

Sarah Mosoetsa and Michelle Williams, eds.

The twenty-first century has posed seri-ous challenges to workers worldwide. It

has also brought to the fore extraordinarily creative responses, forcing us to think beyond our common understandings of labor, effective trade union strategies, and forms of power. Challenging the global North’s dominance in the literature, Labour in the Global South presents alternative approaches as well as creative responses to the challenges facing labor in the global South, in countries such as Bangladesh, Brazil, India, South Africa, and Uruguay.

This volume devotes particular attention to areas often neglected by organized labor: the relationship between ecology, climate change, and jobs; unionizing service work; the dynamics of trade union−political party alliances; gender; and new forms of solidarity. It brings together a group of distinguished labor scholars and practition-ers who make an important contribution through their rich empirical case studies.

Contributors include Ruy Braga (Universidade de Sao Paulo), Akua Britwum (University of Cape Coast, Ghana), Jacklyn Cock (University of the Witwatersrand), Bruno Dobrusin (Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai), Karen Douglas (Textile, Clothing, and Footwear Union of Australia), Luciana Hachmann (Kassel University), Tom Langford (University of Dhaka), Sue Ledwith (Ruskin College), Babalwa Magoqwana (Rhodes University), Sandra Matatu (University of Free State), Zia Rahman (University of Dhaka), Sarbeswara Sahoo (Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute, Gujarat), Christoph Scherrer (Kassel University), and Jana Silverman (Institute de Economia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas).

Sarah Mosoetsa is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Michelle Williams is an associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand.

September, 6 ¼ x 9 ½, 200 pp. paper, 978-92-2-126238-1, $35.00


International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO–08)Volume 1

This volume presents the structure and definitions of all groups in the

International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO–08) and their correspondence with ISCO–88.

ISCO–08 is a four-level hierarchically structured classification that covers all jobs in the world. Developed with the benefit of accumulated national and international experience as well as the help of experts from many countries and agencies, ISCO–08 is fully supported by the international community as an accepted standard

for international labor statistics.

The classification of occupations is divided into two volumes: Volume I presents the structure and definitions of all groups in ISCO–08 and their correspondence with ISCO–88, which it super-sedes, while Volume II will provide an updated and expanded index of occupational titles and associated ISCO–08 and ISCO–88 codes.

2012, 8 ¼ x 11 ¾, 476 pp. paper, 978-92-2-125952-7, $70.00

World Report on Child Labour 2012

How can we reduce child labor in the unfavorable circum-stances of a global economic slowdown? This new flagship

report, the first in a series to be published annually by the ILO’s International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor, brings together research on child labor and social protection, identifying policies that are designed to achieve multiple social goals.

This report includes analyses of national child labor trends based on the latest survey data, discussions of the role of poverty and economic shocks in rendering households vulnerable to child labor, and detailed consideration of income transfers, public employment programs, social insurance, and microcredit initia-tives as they have been implemented around the world.

The report distills a broad range of research in economic and social policy and should be of interest to those looking for ways to combat poverty in the present and reduce its burden on the next generation.

October, 8 ¼ x 11 ¾, 100 pp. paper, 978-92-2-126234-3, $50.00

Global Wage Report 2012–13“I read the Global Wage Report with much interest—and with much

admiration. It is not easy to put together a report of this kind, and

the ILO seems to have got it absolutely right.”

—Adrian Wood, Professor of International Development,

University of Oxford

Wages are a major component of decent work, yet serious knowledge gaps remain in this increasingly important area.

This report, published biennially, is divided into two parts. Part I provides information on regional and global trends in the areas of wage statistics and wage policies. This is illustrated and enriched with country-specific examples and noteworthy policy initiatives. Part II offers deeper yet accessible insights into a single wage-related issue, for instance minimum wage fixing, collective bargaining, or the macroeconomic dimensions of wages. The report also contains a rich statistical appendix that can be accessed through the ILO website, which researchers can use in their own analyses.

November, 8 ¼ x 11 ¾, 106 pp. paper, 978-92-2-126236-7, $50.00

International Journal of Labour ResearchSocial Justice and Growth: The Role of the Minimum Wage Volume 4, Number 1

This issue of the IJLR is dedicated to campaign and policy developments relating to minimum wages around the world.

Minimum wages have garnered renewed interest in recent years as a lever not only to reduce poverty and inequality, but also to stimulate the economy. This volume seeks to reflect a variety of experiences starting with the “living wage” campaigns in the United States, policy efforts to strengthen the minimum wages in Brazil and India, the Asia Floor Wage initiative aiming to set a common real wage floor in Southeast Asia’s garment industry, and the current debate on a minimum wage for Europe. Finally, analysts from the ILO provide a short and highly useful guide to minimum wage-setting methodology.

June, 6 x 9, 120 pp. paper, 978-92-2-126311-1, $42.00


ILO books are available through Brookings Institution Press only in North America. Many of these books are also available in French and Spanish editions directly from the ILO at www.ilo.org

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EconomíaJournal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic AssociationRaquel Bernal, Ugo Panizza, Roberto Rigobón, and Rodrigo Soares, eds.

Economía Fall 2012Tentative contents

• Price and Financial Stability in Modern Central Banking José De Gregorio (Central Bank of Chile)

• Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997–2007 Stephen Haber (Stanford University) and Aldo Musacchio (Harvard Business School)

• Temporal Aggregation in Political Budget Cycles Jorge Streb and Daniel Lema (CEMA)


Economía Spring 2012Contents

• China’s Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi (Inter-American Development Bank), M. Hashem Pesaran (University of Cambridge), Alessandro Rebucci (Inter-American Development Bank), and TengTeng Xu (University of Cambridge)

• Retail Price Setting in Uruguay Fernando Borraz (Banco Central de Uruguay) and Leandro Zipitria (Universidad de Montevideo)

• Adapting Natural Resource Enterprises under Global Warming in Latin America: A Mixed Logit Analysis S. Niggol Seo (University of Sydney)

• Evaluating the Impact of the Brazilian Public School Math Olympics on the Quality of Education Roberta Loboda Biondi (Fundaçāo Getulio Vargas), Lígia Vasconcellos (Itau Unibanco), and Naercio Menezes-Filho (Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa)

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INDEX


Affordable Excellence, 18

Agents of Change, 44

Ahmed, A., 1

America’s New Swing Region, 11, 44

Angelescu, I., 44

Arab Awakening, 16

Arab Society in Revolt, 16

Aramendia, M., 32

Astrow, A., 26

Attacks on the Press, 36

Bass, M., 17

Bejing Ponders NATO Military Withdrawal . . ., 30

Bending History, 2, 3, 44

Bernal, R., 43

Berube, A., 10

Bindi, F., 44

Bohr, A., 26

Boko Haram in West Africa, 31

Bosworth, B.P., 44, 45

Bradley, J., 10, 45

Brender, A., 33

Broken Government? 36

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 43

Brown Center Report, 14

Brown, H., 5

Building a Sustainable Job-Rich Recovery, 40

Bunde, T., 26

Burns, N., 20

Bush, R.C., 4

Business and Climate Policy, 21

Campaign 2012, 5, 44

Campbell, C., 14

Capps, R., 35

Carmassi, J., 32

Catalyzing Development, 16

Cels, S., 44

Change Ahead, 34

Chandy, L., 16

Chatham House Reports, 26

Chesters, J., 44

Chinese ASBM Development, 30

Choe, S.H., 33

Choi, J.J., 30

Churchill, C., 41

Cisneros, H., 10

Conflict or Convergence? 44

Confronting Finance, 40

Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, 10

Crisis Federalism, 15

Dadush, U., 18

Davies, P.J., 36

de Jong, J., 44

de Oliveira, J.A.P., 21

de Renzio, P., 45

Decline in Saving, 44

Derviş, K., 18

Digital Schools, 44

Diversity Explosion, 11

Donahue, J.D., 12

Dong-won, L., 33

Duderstadt, J.J., 31

Dynasty, 33

East Moves West, 19

Economía, 43

Education at a Glance 2012, 39

Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century, 8

Education Today 2012, 39

Egenhofer, C., 32

Eggers, W.D., 7

Engdahl, L., 10

Erickson, A.S., 30

Escaping Victimhood, 22

Ethical Challenges of a Soldier, 31

EU Information Handbook 2011, 27

EU Made Simple, 27

Everard, J., 33

Exorcising the Demons Within, 23

Financial Regionalism and the International Monetary System, 19

Fiscal Therapy, 44

Fix, M., 35

Francis, A., 23

Free and Open Source Software and Technology . . ., 22

Frey, W.H., 11

From Despair to Hope, 10

Fuchita, Y., 45

Fung, A., 45

Future of School Integration, 28

Gaddy, C.G., 3

Gagna, E., 33

Gale, W.G., 44

Geoghegan, T., 28

Global Sustainability and the Responsibilities of Universities, 31

Global Wage Report 2012–13, 42

Gold and the International Monetary System, 26

Gordon, T., 15

Gormley, W.T., 15

Government’s Greatest Investigations, 12

Governor’s Solution, 29

Graham, C., 13

Green Economy and Good Governance for Sustainable Development, 21

Greenprint, 29

Gross, B., 14

Guide to the European Parliament 2012–14, 27

Hakjoon, K., 33

Hansen, R., 35

Haseltine, W.A., 18

Haskins, R., 44

Haunting Legacy, 13

He, W., 44

Hepburn, D., 26

Herring, R.J., 45

Hess, S., 6

Hill, F., 3

Hill, P.T., 14

Hosono, A., 16

Howard, G.E., 30

Huang, H., 26

Huntoon, D., 31

Immigrants in a Changing Labor Market, 35

In the Name of Justice, 14

In the Whirlwind of Jihad, 24

Indyk, M.S., 2, 3, 44

Inequality in America, 18

Innovations in Scaling Up Development Impact, 16

International Journal of Labour Research, 42

Int. Standard Classification of Occupations, 42

Investing in Children, 15, 44

Iranian Nuclear Crisis, 25

Ismailzade, F., 30

Journey into America, 1

Journey into Islam, 1

Jung, W., 16

Kahlenberg, R.D., 28

Kalb, D., 13

Kalb, M., 13

Kalil, A., 45

Kastor, P.J., 7

Katz, B., 10, 45

Kawai, M., 19, 45

Kemp, J., 19

Khangram, S., 45

Kharas, H., 16

Kneebone, E., 10

Koithara, V., 45

Kushida, K., 33

Labour in the Global South, 41

Lambert, C., 29

Landau, L.B., 23

Lannoo, K., 32

Li, C., 14

Lieberthal, K.G., 2, 3, 44

Light, P.G., 12

Linn, J., 16

Lipman, M., 24

INDEX

47FALL 2012

Litan, R.E., 45

Lombardi, D., 19

Loveless, T., 14

Lowry, W.R., 45

Majerowicz, S., 29

Makino, K., 16

Managing Borders in an Increasingly Borderless World, 35

Managing India’s Nuclear Forces, 45

Manna, P., 8

Marvit, M., 28

Mattoo, A., 29

Matul, M., 41

McGuinn, P., 8

Megatrends in Global Interaction, 34

Merlini, C., 16

Metropolitan Revolution, 10, 45

Micossi, S., 32

Middle Ranking Emerging Powers and Africa, 26

Milsom, S.P., 18

Mohan, C.R., 25

Molajoni, A., 26

Moore, M.H., 12

Morgan, I., 36

Mosoetsa, S., 41

Moss, T., 29

Mousavian, S.H., 25

Mr. Putin, 3

Multi-Tier NATO, 26

Munnell, A.H., 9

Nauta, F., 44

Ncube, P., 40

Nivola, P.S., 7

Noetzel, T., 26

Norms of Protection, 23

Nuclear Crossroads, 24

Nye, J.S., 20

Obama and China’s Rise, 45

OECD Economic Surveys, 38

OECD Factbook 2013, 37

OECD Internet Economy Outlook 2012, 38

OECD Science, Technology, and Industry Outlook 2012, 37

O’Hanlon, M.E., 2, 3, 44

Oi, J.C., 33

Oil to Cash, 29

Olcott, M.B., 24

Only Beautiful, Please, 33

Open Budgets, 45

Panizza, U., 43

Papademetriou, D.G., 35

Parayil, G., 22

Peacemaker, 33

Perils of Proximity, 4

Perspectives on Global Development 2013, 37

Petrov, N., 24

Pifer, S., 2

Pindus, N., 45

Pisani, F., 33

Politics and Civics of National Service, 17

Pollack K.M., 16

Pons-Vignon, N., 40

Popovski, V., 23

Ports in a Storm, 12

Preparing Teachers and Developing School Leaders . . ., 38

Price, J., 20

Price Formation in Commodities . . . , 32

Protecting the Poor, 41

Pursuit of Happiness, 13

Redefining “Urban”, 38

Reforming the Public Sector, 45

Repairing Paradise, 45

Resilient Sector, 17

Rethinking Asset Management in Europe, 32

Rethinking National Identity . . ., 34

Rigobon, R., 43

Rocky Times, 45

Romer, D.H., 43

Ronit, K., 21

Rowe, S.M., 33

Roy, O., 16

Royal, B., 31

Russia in 2020, 24

Saalman, L., 24

Salamon, L., 17

Sampford, C., 23

Samudra Manthan, 25

Schnabel, A., 22

Scowcroft, B., 20

Search for Social Entrepreneurship, 12

Securing Cyberspace, 20

Sherr, J., 26

Shifting Capital, 26

Shimizu, K., 33

Shin, G.W., 33

Siberian Curse, 3

Simon, J., 36

Skeptic’s Case for Nuclear Disarmament, 2

Soares, R., 43

Soft Power, 26

South Caucasus 2021, 30

Sovereign Debt Crisis, 33

Sowe, S.K., 22

Stancil, B., 18

Star Spangled Security, 5

State and Local Pensions, 9

State of Nonprofit America, 17

Straub, D., 33

Strife and Progress, 14

Subacchi, P., 26

Subramanian, A., 29

Sumption, M., 35

Sunami, A., 22

Syncretization, 33

Tabyshalieva, A., 22

Teixeira, R., 11, 44

Thistle and the Drone, 1

Thornton, J.L., 14

Time to Set Banking Regulation Right, 32

Towards a Greener Economy, 41

Transpacific Rebalancing, 45

Trends Shaping Education 2012, 39

Tria, G., 45

Tripodi, P., 31

Troubled Transition, 33

Turkmenistan under Berdimuhamedow, 26

Uncharted Strait, 4

Urban & Regional Policy Vol. 4, 45

Valiente, D., 32

Valotti, G., 45

Varghese, R., 26

Voices for Children, 15

Weber, L.E., 31

Weifang, H., 14

Weir, M., 45

Weitz, R., 30

West, D.M., 44

What So Proudly We Hailed, 7

Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 1978–2012, 6

Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right, 28

Why Nuclear Arms Control Is Still Important, 2

Wial, H., 45

Williams, M., 41

Winslow, J., 5

Wittes, B., 5, 44

Wolfers, J., 43

Wolman, H., 45

World of Work Report 2012, 40

World Report on Child Labour 2012, 42

World’s Changing Industrial Landscape, 26

Young Children of Black Immigrants in America, 35

Zenn, J., 31


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