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Martin Indyk, Tanvi Madan, Thomas Wright and Gail Chalef (Ed.)
Big Bets & Black Swans
A Presidential Briefing Book
Brookings Institution Press, 2013
What's inside?
If you could brief the president of the United States on foreign policy, what would you recommend?
Recommendation
As President Barack Obama begins his second term, foreign policy scholars at Brookings believe the time is right for America to reassert its global leadership. They provide 20 short memoranda that lay out big issues, complete with background information and concise recommendations. The subjects are either “big bets” – strategies that could be transformational for the US, the world and the president’s legacy – or “black swans” – events that nobody expects to happen but that would have devastating consequences if they did. This smart report earns stylistic points for being more internally aligned than most documents with multiple contributors. getAbstract recommends it to policy makers, global businesspeople and students of foreign affairs.
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About the Authors
Martin Indyk is vice president and director of foreign policy at Brookings, where Tanvi Madan is a fellow and a director of the India Project. Thomas Wright is a fellow in Brookings’s Managing Global Order Project. Gail Chalef was the project designer.
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