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Brookings Institution

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Founded in 1927, the Brookings Institution is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to research, education, and publication in the fields of economics, foreign policy, and government. It states as its principal purposes: "to aid in the development of sound public policies and to promote public understanding of issues of national importance."

Brookings maintains a 55,000-volume library. It is organized into the following divisions: Advanced Study, Economic Studies, Foreign Policy Studies, Governmental Studies (which includes some legal studies), Foreign Policy Studies, Governmental Studies, Publications, and a Social Science Computation Center.

The institution publishes the Brookings Bulletin (quarterly), the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (twice a year), and an Annual Report. It also publishes its extensive research in books and reprints.
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Price has joined The Brookings Institution, a private non-profit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions, as a senior fellow.
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After disclosures showed that Russian diplomats passed sensitive military intelligence to Saddam Hussein's senior officials as American troops were closing in on Baghdad in 2003, Brookings Institution scholar Michael O'Hanlon sharply criticized the actions of our so-called allies in Moscow.
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The Brookings Institution and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University jointly published the first volume of the Future of Children journal titled "School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps.
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