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New and Notable

  • Healing the Wounded Giant

    Maintaining Military Preeminence while Cutting the Defense Budget

    Michael E. O'Hanlon, 2013

  • The Thistle and the Drone

    How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam

    Akbar Ahmed, 2013

  • Mr. Putin

    Operative in the Kremlin

    Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy, 2013

  • Avoiding Armageddon

    America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back

    Bruce Riedel, 2013

  • Uncharted Strait

    The Future of China-Taiwan Relations

    Richard C. Bush III, 2013

  • Aspiration and Ambivalence

    Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan

    Vanda Felbab-Brown, 2012

Focus Book Series

  • Fast Forward

    Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming,
    Revised edition

    William J. Antholis and Strobe Talbott, 2011

  • Brain Gain

    Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy

    Darrell M. West, 2010

  • Bending History

    Barack Obama's Foreign Policy

    Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Martin S. Indyk and Michael E. O'Hanlon, 2012

  • The Next Wave

    Using Digital Technology to Further Social and Political Innovation

    Darrell M. West, 2011

  • The Opportunity

    Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms

    Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon, 2012

Best Sellers

Timely and Topical

  • The Opportunity

    Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms

    Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon, 2012

  • Digital Schools

    How Technology Can Transform Education

    Darrell M. West, 2012

  • Brain Gain

    Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy

    Darrell M. West, 2010

  • Bending History

    Barack Obama's Foreign Policy

    Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Martin S. Indyk and Michael E. O'Hanlon, 2012

  • The Decline in Saving

    A Threat to America's Prosperity?

    Barry P. Bosworth, 2012

  • In the Name of Justice

    Striving for the Rule of Law in China

    Weifang He (Author), John L. Thornton (Foreword) and Cheng Li, 2012

  • Deadly Embrace (Revised Edition)

    Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad

    Bruce Riedel, 2012

  • No Slack

    The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans

    Michael Barr, 2012

  • The Lingering Conflict

    Israel, The Arabs, and the Middle East 1948–2012 (Revised)

    Itamar Rabinovich, 2012

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