Brookings Institution Press

What wasn't learned from a U.S. intervention that succeeded In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat. They were greeted by vendors and sunbathers...

Explores the real-life consequences of the digital divide and what can be done to close it. Based on fieldwork across the United States, this book explores the consequences of digital exclusion...

Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings...

Former FCC chairman Wheeler brings to life the two great network revolutions, the invention of the movable-type printing press and the telegraph. He puts these past revolutions into perspective of...

This book reveals the varied motivations for overseas military bases and base access among great powers and offers a valuable window into the nature and scope of the broader "great power competition"...

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...

Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war. The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But...

Disinformation made possible by rapid advances in cheap, digital technology thrives in the toxic political environment in the United States and around the world. Lies that Kill takes readers inside...

Military expert Michael O'Hanlon examines America's major conflicts from the Civil War to Afghanistan. Now updated with to include the Revolutionary War and brief observations on three other...