Brookings Institution Press: Award Winners
1999-2002


New Awards 2003-2005

CHOICE 2002 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLES

India: Emerging Power by Stephen P. Cohen

"Stephen Cohen, has produced a remarkable endorsement of India and its march towards being a power that matters." —Amitabh Mattoo, India Today International


Innocent Until Nominated: The Breakdown of the Presidential Appointments Process edited by G. Calvin Mackenzie

"A highly readable and accessible overview. . . .exactly what we need to move beyond polemical critiques of the confirmation process and toward a better understanding of what has caused the current state of affairs." —Presidential Studies Quarterly


Regionalism and Realism: A Study of Government in the New York Metropolitan Area by Gerald Benjamin and Richard P. Nathan

"It moves well beyond a case study of a single metropolitan area to discuss, with sophistication and insight, how regionalism is affecting governance more generally within metropolitan areas." —Choice


Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change by Jane Fountain

"[P]rovides a powerful theoretical lens for understanding how technology, organizations, and institutions interact. . . .I strongly recommend this book to anyone seriously interested in the role of technology as both cause and effect of organizational and institutional change." —Stuart Bretschneider, Public Administration Review

AAP/PSP AWARD 2002, Category: Economics

This award by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers acknowledges "excellence in book, journal, and electronic publishing in all the disciplines represented by professional, scholarly and reference publishing."

Japan's Policy Trap: Dollars, Deflation, and the Crisis of Japanese Finance by Akio Mikuni and R. Taggart Murphy

". . . a provocative new book." —John Thornhill, Financial Times


2002 FRANCE-AMERIQUE BOOK AWARD

This award has been given since 1987 to the best book on France from the United States, and the best book on the United States from France. It is supported by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.

The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization by Sophie Meunier and Philip Gordon

"Rarely has such a clear book been written about the big issue of the day in France. Avoiding the usual stereotypes and polemics, Gordon and Meunier pulverize a number of clichés, beginning with that of a France incapable of adapting to globalization." —Pascal Riché, Libération


CHOICE 2001 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE

Choice magazine listed Winning Ugly among their Outstanding Academic Titles for 2001. Fewer than ten percent of titles reviewed, and fewer than three percent of those submitted were chosen for this award.

Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo by Ivo Daalder and Michael E. O'Hanlon

"A thorough, lucid, hard-hitting examination of Western, and especially American, policy, scrupulously examining the real alternatives available at the time." —New York Review of Books

2001 WASHINGTON BOOK PUBLISHERS AWARD

North Korea: Through the Looking Glass by Kongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig
Second Place Winner, Jackets/Covers (1+2 Colors)

"...genuine insight into one of the most bizarre and mysterious societies on earth, at the precise moment when the North Korean tragicomedy appears to be moving toward a denouement. The value and timing of this book could not be greater."—Francis Fukuyama, Hirst Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University

CHOICE 2000 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE
& 1999 AAP OUTSTANDING PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLARLY TITLE

Choice magazine listed Civic Engagement among their Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000.

Civic Engagement in American Democracy edited by Theda Skocpol and Morris Fiorina

"The consistently high quality of the contributions to this volume make it absolutely essential for students of civic participation, and highly recommended for all who are concerned with the health of American democracy." —H.L. Reiter, University of Connecticut

CHOICE 2000 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE

The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process (revised edition) by Allen Schick

"[Schick's] mastery of the arcana of the budget process is on abundant display here. . . . The volume is indispensable for students and teachers of public policy and public administration." —S.E. Schier, Choice

2000 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY BOOK AWARD

The American Academy of Diplomacy named the following title as a winner of its 2000 award for a book of distinguished writing on the practice of American diplomacy.

Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence by William H. Gleysteen

". . .a concise and lucid account that is rich with lessons about U.S. relations with imperfect partners. . . . A valuable memoir, written with care." —Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs

1999 AAUP AWARD

The Association of American University Presses announced the winners of its annual competition for book and jacket design. The Brookings Institution won one of the awards for the dust jacket for the following book.

Creating Peace in Sri Lanka: Civil War & Reconciliation edited by Robert Rotberg
Published for the World Peace Foundation at Harvard.

"[W]hile the gloom the volume projects is inescapable, so is the ray of hope. Particularly commendable is the volume's attempt to bring together a diverse group of both Sri Lankan and foreign specialists, all of whom write with authority and brilliance." —H.L. Seneviratne, University of Virginia

1999 WASHINGTON BOOK PUBLISHERS AWARD

At the 1999 Washington Book Publishers "Book Design and Effectiveness Awards Ceremony", five Brookings books were given top honors in the categories for which they were submitted.

None of Your Business by Peter P. Swire and Robert E. Litan
First Place Winner, Jackets/Covers (1+2 Colors)

"...the most comprehensive treatment of the effect of the European Privacy Directive on data flows in the United States yet written..." —Arthur Miller, Harvard Law School

Exodus Within Borders by David A. Korn
First Place Winner, Jackets/Covers (3+ Colors)

"...this brief volume offers an illustrated guide to what the international community is doing to help the internally displaced and how it can do better..." —Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations

China's New Economic Revolution by Nicholas R. Lardy
Second Place Winner, Jackets/Covers (3+ Covers)

"...a sober, balanced, and realistic discussion of where China has really been in the recent years of economic reform, and where it must go now if it is to continue to be successful..." —Peter G. Peterson, Chairman of the Blackstone Group

Between Ballots and Bullets by William B. Quandt
Third Place Winner, Jackets/Covers (3+ Covers)

"...a lucid, well-written, and highly readable account of Algeria's tortuous contemporary politics...a balanced and fresh perspective on Algerian agony and the prospects for the future..." —Farhad Kazemi, New York University

Rebirth of Europe by Elizabeth Pond
Honorable Mention, Jackets/Covers (3+ Covers)

"...an impressive challenge to Europeans, as to Americans, to look ahead with optimism and to make the most of our common new opportunities..." —Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany, 1982-98


New Awards 2003-2005