Brookings Big Ideas for America

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An Agenda for the Nation
What are the biggest issues facing the country as Donald Trump and the GOP-led 115th Congress take office?
Any new administration faces a myriad of issues and problems it must take on as it ascends to power. In this volume, Brookings scholars and others offer their solutions, from Ben Bernanke and Richard Bush to Richard Reeves and Dayna Matthew, from Bob Reischauer and Alice Rivlin to Robert Kagan and Elaine Kamarck, to Belle Sawhill, Doug Elmendorf, David Wessel, Bill Galston, and Carol Graham, as well as many others.

These powerful essays engage and inform readers on a variety of timely, crucial issues that affect the present and the future of the United States. Much of the focus is on the threatened middle-class dream in America. On the domestic front, Brookings scholars tackle topics ranging from health care and jobs to economic opportunity and trade policy, to criminal justice and
infrastructure. The alliance system, relationships with China and Mexico, nuclear weapons, terrorism, and the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq are among the foreign policies issues addressed.

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About the author

Michael O'Hanlon is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American national security policy. He co-directs the Center on 21st Century Security and Intelligence there with retired General John Allen. O'Hanlon is also director of research for the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia, Princeton, and Syracuse universities and University of Denver.

Summary

As a new administration takes office, what are the biggest issues facing America? The Brookings Institution offers answers to that question in this volume, which continues the Brookings tradition of providing each incoming administration with a non-partisan analysis of the major domestic and foreign questions confronting America.

Product details

• Authors: Michael E. (EDT) Hanlon, O&apos, Michael E. (EDT) O'Hanlon
• Assisted by: Michael O'Hanlon (Editor), Michael E O'Hanlon (Editor), Michael E. O'Hanlon (Editor), O'Hanlon Michael E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780815731313
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-3131-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, Central / national / federal government, Central government policies, Central government