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| 2010 || || || Brookings expert and former {{w|United States Ambassador to the United Nations}} {{w|Susan Rice}}, serves as an editor for the book ''Confronting Poverty: Weak States and U.S. National Security'', which highlights how the effects of poverty in fragile states can spill over borders and threaten U.S. national security.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2011 || || || "2011. Fixing Presidential Appointments. landmark research. In 2010, {{w|E.J. Dionne, Jr. }} and Bill {{w|William Galston convene a bipartisan working group of experts to address problems and solutions }} at Brookings play an influential role with the broken presidential appointments process. Their efforts and their report, “A ''A Half-Empty Government Can't Govern'',” inform which informs the {{w|United States Senate }} the passage of the Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011, which becomes law in 2011the same year."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2012 || || || Brookings scholar {{w|Carol Graham}} publishes ''Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires'', in which she studies happiness across developed and developing countries.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
| 2012 || || || The Brookings Institution launches the Global Cities Initiative as a joint project with {{w|JPMorgan Chase}}. The five-year project aims to help leaders in U.S. metropolitan areas reorient their economies toward greater engagement in world markets.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2013 || || Assistance || Experts at Brookings assist on the development of the next generation of the {{w|United Nations}}’ Millennium Development Goals, contributing to their mission to improve the lives of people worldwide.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2013 || || International expansion || Brookings opens in India its third overseas office, the New Delhi Center. Organized and staffed in large part by Indian nationals, it serves as a platform for relevant and productive research centered on India’s changing role in the world.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref>{{Cite news| url= http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/tea-with-bs-strobe-talbott-president-brookings-institution-113042600957_1.html| title= Tea with BS: Strobe Talbott|last=Datta|first=Kanika|date=2013-04-26|work=Business Standard India| access-date=2 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brookings.in|title=Brookings India| website= Brookings India|language=en-US|access-date=2 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || || || The Brookings' {{w|Center for Universal Education}} joins the {{w|Michelle Obama}}'s initiative Let Girls Learn, which aims at helping adolescent girls attain "a quality education that empowers them to reach their full potential".<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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