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| 2002 || ||Leadership || American foreign policy analyst {{w|Strobe Talbott}} becomes the sixth president of Brookings.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref>{{cite web |url= https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/october/strobe-talbott-first-distinguished-visitor-buffett-institute/| title= Strobe Talbott to be first distinguished visitor at Buffett Institute |last= |first= |date=2017-10-13 |publisher= {{w|Northwestern University}} |access-date=2 October 2019}}</ref><ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 2002 || || Research center || Brookings establishes the {{w|Center for Middle East Policy}} "to promote a better understanding of the policy choices facing American decision makers in the {{w|Middle East}}".<ref>{{cite web |title=ABOUT THE CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST POLICY |url=https://www.brookings.edu/about-the-center-for-middle-east-policy/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=2 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2003 || || || Led by former {{w|Paul Volcker}}, the second National Commission on the Public Service (a project of a Brookings policy center) releases a set of recommendations for government reform, entitled ''Urgent Business for America''. The Commission offers rationales and ideas for reorganizing the federal government that stem from the work of the center.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
