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| 2002 || || Institutional || 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 || || Recommendation || Led by former {{w|Chairman of the Federal Reserve}} {{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"/>
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| 2003 || || Publication || A joint effort between Brookings and the {{w|American Enterprise Institute}} issues ''The Continuity of Congress'', the first of a set of reports on how to carry on the functions of government in the event of a massive and catastrophic attack on the main institutions of the {{w|United States Government}}.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
