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Repairing Paradise: The Restoration of Nature in America's National Parks - Paperback

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by William R. Lowry (Author)" By the turn of the millennium, it had become painfully apparent that the United States had made some serious misjudgments in its interactions with the natural world. The country's treasured national parks, while remaining immensely popular tourist destinations, were not immune to the damage. Preservation alone would no longer be enough; by this time, repair and restoration were necessary. Can the United States reverse the mistaken policies that severely damaged t...

How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC's Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms - Paperback

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by Susan L. Shirk (Author)" China's transformation from a virtually closed economy to a major trading nation is an incredible success story. Since 1979 the country has changed it's policies to promote increased foreign trade and investment, thereby attracting more direct investment to China than to any other developing country in recent years. What brought about this change? How, after thirty years of being walled off form the world economy, did China open its door? This book part of the Inte...

Exchange Rate Politics in Latin America - Paperback

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by Carol Wise (Editor), Riordan Roett (Editor)" Most of the analysis of Latin American exchange rate problems and policies has concentrated on the economic side of things. This volume instead examines the politics of exchange rate management in four nations that had very different approaches and results. Although the Mexican peso crash, Brazil's currency crisis, Argentina's maintenance of a currency board, and Venezuelan policy responses to the shocks of 1997-98 have had major international f...

Red and Blue Nation?: Characteristics and Causes of America's Polarized Politics - Paperback

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by Pietro S. Nivola (Editor), David W. Brady (Editor)"A Brookings Institution Press and the Hoover Institution publication Analysts and pundits increasingly perceive a widening gulf between ""red states"" and ""blue states."" Yet the research to support that perception is scattered and sometimes difficult to parse. America's polarized politics, it is said, poses fundamental dangers for democratic and accountable government. Heightened partisanship is thought to degrade deliberation in Congres...

Growing Pains: Russian Democracy and the Election of 1993 - Paperback

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by Timothy J. Colton (Editor), Jerry F. Hough (Editor)" The Russian Federation on December 12, 1993, held its first national election since the collapse of Soviet Communism. The election, to a new, two-chamber parliament, was accompanied by a constitutional referendum. It followed months of wrangling over political and economic reform and a violent showdown in Moscow between President Boris Yeltsin and his opponents. After a bitter campaign in which the government frequently changed the rules...

Mentoring at Work: Developmental Relationships in Organizational Life - Paperback

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by Kathy E. Kram (Author)A close look at relationships in the work place that enhance an individual's performance, development and career potential during the early, middle and late career years. The author targets three distinct audiences: individuals at every career stage, practicing managers and employees in all occupations and finally, human resource specialists, organizational researchers and psychologists. Originally published in 1985 by Scott, Foresman and Company.Author BiographyKathy...

Small Isn't Beautiful: The Case against Localism - Hardcover

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by Trevor Latimer (Author)"Eat local" has become a popular marketing slogan in recent years, based on the idea that food grown or raised nearby is better for you and friendlier to the environment than similar products shipped in from many miles away. That slogan reflects a broader worldview suggesting that everything local, including government and knowledge, is better than what originates somewhere else. Small Isn't Beautiful acknowledges that some things that are local are good, but denies ...

Breakthrough: The Promise of Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development - Paperback

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by Homi Kharas (Editor), John W. McArthur (Editor), Izumi Ohno (Editor)Harnessing technology for a better futureAt a time when many people worry about stalled progress on the economic, social, and environmental challenges of sustainable development, Breakthrough is a reminder that the promise of a better future is within our grasp, across a range of domains. It will interest anyone who wonders about the world's economic, social, and environmental future.Back JacketThe COVID-19 pandemic offere...

U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Will China's Challenge Lead to a Crisis? - Hardcover

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by Ryan Hass (Author), Bonnie Glaser (Author), Richard Bush (Author)This book explains how the U.S.-Taiwan relationship arrived at its current moment, rightsizes the risk of cross-Strait conflict with China, and argues that the United States must counter both military and non-military threats to Taiwan if it wishes to preserve peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. Author BiographyRyan Hass is the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at the Brookings Institution. Bonnie Glas...

Lifting Up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty & Welfare Reform - Paperback

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by Mary Jo Bane (Author), Lawrence M. Mead (Author)" People who participate in debates about the causes and cures of poverty often speak from religious conviction. But those convictions are rarely made explicit or debated on their own terms. Rarely is the influence of personal religious commitment on policy decisions examined. Two of the nation's foremost scholars and policy advocates break the mold in this lively volume, the first to be published in the new Pew Forum Dialogues on Religion an...

Harnessing Technology for Inclusive Prosperity: Growth, Work, and Inequality in the Digital Era - Paperback

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by Brahima Coulibaly (Editor), Zia Qureshi (Editor)Transformative new technologies are reshaping economies and societies. But as they create new opportunities, they also pose new challenges, not least of which is rising inequality. Increased disparities and related anxieties are stoking societal discontent and political ferment. Harnessing technological transformation in ways that foster its benefits, contain risks, and build inclusive prosperity is a major public policy challenge of our time...

Japan's Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific - Paperback

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by Mireya Solis (Author)Japan's Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japan's domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the country's security profile. Author BiographyMireya Sol? is Director of the Center for Policy Studies and Knight Chair in Japan Studies at the Brookings Institution, where she specializes in Japanese foreign economic policy, regional integration...

The Next Wave: Using Digital Technology to Further Social and Political Innovation - Paperback

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by Darrell M. West (Author)" The digital revolution is in full force but many public and private sector leaders are stymied: How can they maximize the full potential of digital technology? This hesitancy puts a brake on the transformational power of digital technology and means private companies and governmental bodies fall well behind other digital pioneers. Darrell West focuses on the next wave of technologies and how they can further enhance U.S. social and political innovation. West champ...

Unleashing Change: A Study of Organizational Renewal in Government - Paperback

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by Steven Kelman (Author)"A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publication This is a hopeful account of the potential for organizational change and improvement within government. Despite the mantra that ""people resist change,"" it is possible to effect meaningful reform in a large bureaucracy. In Unleashing Change, public management expert Steven Kelman presents a blueprint for accomplishing such improvements, based on his experience orchestra...

Small Isn't Beautiful: The Case against Localism - Paperback

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Leading Change from the Middle: A Practical Guide to Building Extraordinary Capabilities - Paperback

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by Jackson Nickerson (Author)Bookshelves abound with theoretical analyses, how-to guides, and personal success stories by famous corporate leaders, public officials, even athletic coaches, expounding on how to lead from the top. But what about those in the middle who are increasingly tasked with trying to reshape, reorient, or recreate the capabilities of an organization?Leading Change from the Middle takes you on the journeys traveled by Kurt Mayer, an information technology executive in the...

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by Robert A. Katzmann (Author)" What role should the Senate play in the selection and confirmation of judges? What criteria are appropriate in evaluating nominees? What kinds of questions and answers are appropriate in confirmation hearings? How do judges interpret laws enacted by Congress, and what problems do they face? And what kinds of communications are proper between judges and legislators? These questions go to the heart of the relationship between the federal judiciary and Congress--a...

Japan's Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific - Hardcover

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by Mireya Solis (Author)Japan's Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japan's domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the country's security profile. Author BiographyMireya Solís is Director of the Center for Policy Studies and Knight Chair in Japan Studies at the Brookings Institution, where she specializes in Japanese foreign economic policy, regional integratio...

Child Protection: Using Research to Improve Policy and Practice - Paperback

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by Ron Haskins (Editor), Fred Wulczyn (Editor), Mary Bruce Webb (Editor)" The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) is the first nationally representative study of children who have been reported to authorities as suspected victims of abuse or neglect and the public programs that protect them. Child Protection is the first book that reports the results of NSCAW, interprets the findings, and puts them into a broader policy context. The authors, all experts in child welfare...

Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo - Paperback

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by Ivo H. Daalder (Author), Michael E. O'Hanlon (Author)" After eleven weeks of bombing in the spring of 1999, the United States and NATO ultimately won the war in Kosovo. Serbian troops were forced to withdraw, enabling an international military and political presence to take charge in the region. But was this war inevitable or was it the product of failed western diplomacy prior to the conflict? And once it became necessary to use force, did NATO adopt a sound strategy to achieve its aims o...

Friends and Foes: How Congress and the President Really Make Foreign Policy - Paperback

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by Rebecca K. C. Hersman (Author)" Foreign policy in the post-cold war era is profoundly complex, and so too are the institutions that share the responsibility to guide and manage America's relations with other countries. Policymakers struggle within porous and fragmented institutions, in which policy is driven more powerfully by clusters of like-minded individuals than by disciplined organizations. The nation's political parties face deep divisions over foreign policy and are unable to forge...

Inside Out India and China: Local Politics Go Global - Paperback

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by William Antholis (Author)"One third of humanity is governed by two capitals, New Delhi and Beijing. Increasingly, these two countries are being led not from the top down, but rather from the Inside Out.In 2014, India overwhelmingly elected Narendra Modi minister, a man who rose to national prominence as chief minister of Gujarat, India's fastest growing state. Likewise, in 2013, Xi Jinping took over as president of China, having served as top official in Zhejiang and Shanghai, two of China...

China's Political Development: Chinese and American Perspectives - Paperback

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by Kenneth G. Lieberthal (Editor), Cheng Li (Editor), Yu Keping (Editor)"China's path to political reform over the last three decades has been slow, but discourse among Chinese political scientists continues to be vigorous and forward thinking. China's Political Development offers a unique look into the country's evolving political process by combining chapters authored by twelve prominent Chinese political scientists with an extensive commentary on each chapter by an American scholar of the ...

Asia in Washington: Exploring the Penumbra of Transnational Power - Paperback

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by Kent E. Calder (Author)" For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states. Key powers have included at various times Great Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia (then the U.S.S.R., and then Russia again), and the nation most influential in international relations for the past several decades has been the United States. But in a world growing smaller, with a globalizing system increasing in complexity by the day, the nation-state paradigm is not...

The Little Book of Campaign Etiquette: For Everyone with a Stake in Politicians and Journalists - Paperback

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by Stephen Hess (Author), Judith Martin (Introduction by)"Revised and updated just in time for the 2000 campaign, this shrewd and amusing series of observations provides a political etiquette for campaign behavior on the part of both politicians and journalists. Features illustrations by America's foremost political cartoonists, including Herblock, Paul Conrad, Jeff McNally, Don Wright, Garry Trudeau, Jim Borgman, Mike Peters, Tom Toles, Mike Luckovich, Steve Benson, and Walt Handelsman. ""St...

Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis: Revised to include New Revelations from Soviet & Cuban Sources - Paperback

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by Raymond Garthoff (Author)The Soviet response to the first edition of Reflections has been a prime example of the new openness under glasnost in discussing previously taboo subjects. Using new revelations--such as the fact that Moscow had twice as many troops in Cuba as the Kennedy administration believed--from key Soviet and Cuban Sources, Garthoff has revised his earlier analysis to produce the most accurate, eye-opening story yet of the 1963 crisis. In this book Raymond L. Garthoff, a pa...

The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa - Paperback

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by Kerstin Bree Carlson (Author)Examining how international criminal law has--and hasn't--brought justice following war crimes in AfricaWritten in an accessible style, this book explores the connections between politics and the doctrine of international criminal law. Highlighting little-known institutional examples and under-discussed political situations, the book contributes to a broader international understanding of African politics and international criminal justice, as well as the lesso...

War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan - Paperback

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by Francis M. Deng (Author)" The civil war that has intermittently raged in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is, according to Francis Deng, a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country. Identity is seen as a function of how people identify themselves and are identified in racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious terms. The identity question related to how such concepts determine or influence participation and ...

Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Paperback

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by Edward B. Fiske (Author), Helen F. Ladd (Author)" Elusive Equity chronicles South Africa's efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid. The policymakers who came to power with Nelson Mandela in 1994 inherited and education system designed to further the racist goals of apartheid. Their massive challenge was to transform that system, which lavished human and financial resources on schools serving white students while systematically starving tho...

The Persistence of Innovation in Government - Paperback

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by Sandford F. Borins (Author)" Sandford Borins addresses the enduring significance of innovation in government as practiced by public servants, analyzed by scholars, discussed by media, documented by awards, and experienced by the public. In The Persistence of Innovation in Government, he maps the changing landscape of American public sector innovation in the twenty-first century, largely by addressing three key questions: - Who innovates? - When, why, and how do they do it? - What are the ...

The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization - Paperback

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by Richard N. Haass (Author)" How do you figure out what to do in a job? How do you get it done? How should you deal with demanding bosses? How can you get the most out of subordinates? What should you do to get along with difficult colleagues and handle powerful interest groups and the media? Just how can you succeed in a world where persuasion rather than direct command is the rule? Using a compass as his operating metaphor--your boss is north of you, your staff is south, colleagues are eas...

The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked - Paperback

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by Leslie H. Gelb (Author), Richard K. Betts (With)" Few analysts of U.S. involvement in Vietnam would agree with the provocative conclusion of this book. The thesis of most postmortems is that the United States lost the war because of the failure of its foreign policy decisionmaking system. According to Gelb and Betts, however, the foreign policy failed, but the decisionmaking system worked. They attribute this paradox to the efficiency of the system in sustaining an increasingly heavy commi...