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| 1996 || || Publication || Brookings scholars {{w|Joshua M. Epstein}} and {{w|Robert Axtell}} publish ''Growing Artificial Societies'' which applies agent-based {{w|computer modelling}} in their groundbreaking study of human social interactions. The authors model an artificial society “from the bottom up” that can account for evolutionary change.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1997 || || Recognition (ranking) || Brookings ranks as the first-most influential and first in credibility among 27 think tanks considered in a survey of congressional staff and journalists.<ref name=standford>{{cite journal| url= http://www.ssireview.org/pdf/2005SP_feature_rich.pdf|title=War of Ideas: Why Mainstream and Liberal Foundations and the Think Tanks they Support are Losing in the War of Ideas in American Politics| first= Andrew| last= Rich| journal=Stanford Social Innovation Review|publisher=Stanford University|date=Spring 2006}}</ref>
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| 1998 || || Publication || Francis Deng and Roberta Cohen at Brookings publish ''Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement'', which analyzes the causes and consequences of internal displacement. The book is called “a landmark study” by diplomat {{w|Richard Holbrooke}}.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
