How the Search for a Good Life Can Change the World
Homi Kharas looks at how the powerful dream of middle class life captivated generations, from Victorian England to present day India, but its demands have led younger generations to ask if it is all worth it. Can the middle class continue to thrive, or will it falter under the stresses of automation, consumerism, pollution, and political strife?
As with the industrial revolution and the Gilded Age it created, new digital technology has changed commerce and culture, creating great wealth in the process, while being essentially unsupervised. Wheeler calls for an era of public interest oversight that embraces new protections for consumers and competition and encourages continued innovation.
Controlling Risks, Solving Problems and Managing Compliance
Tackles one of the most pressing public policy issues of our time - the reform of regulatory and enforcement practice. Malcolm K. Sparrow shows how the vogue prescriptions for reform fail to take account of the distinctive character of regulatory responsibilities - which involve the delivery of obligations rather than just services.
In this groundbreaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the "Constitution of Knowledge" - our social system for turning disagreement into truth.
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.
Three main themes are intertwined throughout the book: Russian Arctic interests; Putins vision to regain great power status; and the emerging narrative of a new cold war in the Arctic. Weaved together, they dovetail nicely to present a qualitative assessment of Russian Arctic strategy devoid of ideological biases.
Explores both the tensions and benefits associated with governing places in an increasingly fragmented - and inequitable - economic landscape. The authors hope to provoke new thinking among practitioners, policymakers, leaders, planners, scholars, students, and philanthropists about how, why, and for whom place governance matters.
Explores the human drama, and long-term lessons, of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Based on interviews with more than 300 government officials, power plant operators, and military personnel during the years since the disaster, Meltdown is a meticulous recounting and analysis of the human stories behind the response to the Fukushima disaster.
America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump
Looks at the interplay between the U.S.-led peace process and internal Palestinian politics-namely, how a badly flawed peace process helped to weaken Palestinian leaders and institutions and how an increasingly dysfunctional Palestinian leadership, in turn, hindered prospects for a diplomatic resolution.
