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Offers a systematic history of US efforts to help forge a settlement between India and Pakistan on the "Kashmir question". Former ambassador Howard B. Schaffer draws on interviews with senior American officials, historical research, and his experience in South Asia to explain three generations of US policies toward this volatile region.

Hand-Off details the Bush administration's national security and foreign policy as described at the time in then-classified Transition Memoranda prepared by the National Security Council experts who advised President Bush.

Despite its current and potential benefits, AI is little understood by the larger public and widely feared. In this compelling and readable book, two experts discuss both the opportunities and risks posed by artificial intelligence - and how near-term policy decisions could determine whether the technology leads to utopia or dystopia.

Provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.

The days of rapid economic growth in China are over. Mounting debt and rising internal distortions mean that rebalancing is inevitable. Beijing has no choice but to take significant steps to restructure its economy. This title debunks the lingering bullish expectations for China's economic rise and details Beijing's options.

Any Western corporation, investor, or entrepreneur serious about competing internationally must understand what makes India and China tick. Unfortunately, many in the West still look at the two Asian giants as monoliths, closely controlled mainly by their national governments. Inside Out, India and China makes clear how and why this notion is outdated.

If the subject of influence in Washington interests you, this series of books deserves your respectful attention...it has changed the ways in which American politicians think about the budget.

While Big Steel has been shrinking, minimills have been growing, and they now turn out about one-fifth of the raw steel produced in the United States. In this study, Donald F. Barnett and Robert W. Crandall present a comprehensive survey of US minimills - their operations, methods, costs, growth, and competitiveness.

People pay taxes for two reasons. On the positive side, most people recognize, even if grudgingly, that payment of tax is a duty of citizenship. On the negative side, they know that the law requires payment, that evasion is a crime, and that willful failure to pay taxes is punishable by fines or imprisonment.

From the poorest villages of rural West Africa to the Oval Office, this book tells the story of a deadly virus that spun wildly out of control - and reveals the truth about how close the world came to a catastrophic global pandemic. It is a story that serves as a cautionary tale for the COVID-19 epidemic currently spreading throughout the world.

Reveals how the nexus of international economics and national politics pushed monetary union to the brink of a breakup, how that disastrous development was avoided, and why the long-term viability of a common currency challenges politics as we know it.

A good deal has been done to improve the safety of Americans on their own soil since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Yet there have been numerous setbacks.

Today America's nonprofit sector, long a critically important part of the nation's social and economic fabric, is more important than ever. This book explains how and why they developed and how they interact with one another in the ongoing battle for the soul of America's nonprofit world.

Bill Coleman's story is one that younger generations should mark and inwardly digest, lest they forget the pioneers who helped to make a better America possible.

Those of us alive today are the first generation to know that we live in the Age of Global Warming. We may also be the last generation to have any chance of doing something about it.

In this revised and expanded version of the Godkin Lectures presented at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University in April 1974, Arthur M. Okun explores the conflicts that arise when society's desire to reduce inequality would impair economic efficiency, confronting policymakers with "the big tradeoff".

Drawing on his personal story of growing up as a fundamentalist Christian on a dairy farm in rural Ohio, then as an academic in the heart of the liberal East Coast establishment, Darrell West analyses the economic, cultural, and political aspects of polarization. He uses his experiences to offer insights into why each side is angry with the other.

With long-time legal and social barriers to marijuana falling across much of the US, the time has come for an accessible and informative look at attitudes toward the dried byproduct of Cannabis sativa. Marijuana: A Short History profiles the politics and policies concerning the five-leaf plant in the United States and around the world.