This collection of 23 briefing papers from leading counter-piracy experts was prepared by DSG for the conference entitled “Global Challenge, Regional Responses: Forging a Common Approach to Maritime Piracy,” held in Dubai on April 18-19, 2011. The conference was organized by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and DP World. Editors included Stephen Brannon, Taufiq Rahim, Cyrus Hodes, Theodore Karasik and Ekram Al Yacoub.

This volume argues for a shift from the narrow focus of "electronic government" on technology and transactions to the broader perspective of information government—the information flows within the public sector, between the public sector and citizens, and among citizens—as a way to understand the changing nature of governing and governance in today’s information society.

Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East (Brookings Press, 2009), edited by Navtej Dhillon and Tarik Yousef, represents three years of research on youth exclusion in the Middle East.