As President Barack Obama attempts to renew America's global leadership, scholars affiliated with Chatham House offer expert perspectives from outside the United States on its ability to continue to play an international leading role. Looking at a range of themes and regions, their analyses provide a challenging basis for rethinking America's international leadership.
"Niblett manages to assemble a book that is surprisingly cohesivedespite its vast scope . . . the immediacy, though, gives the booka journalistic quality." (The International Spectator, 2010)
'America and a Changed World speaks compellinglyto the necessity of an intelligent American foreign policy moreattuned to the realities of the twenty-first century.'-
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski, Professor of American foreignpolicy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns HopkinsUniversity and former National Security Advisor to President JimmyCarter
'At a time of great uncertainty about the future of USglobal leadership, America and a Changed World offers aseries of timely and important insights into the scale of thechallenge facing the Obama administration. As such, the book willserve as a very valuable reference point for students of US foreignpolicy and policy practitioners alike.' -
-- Joschka Fischer, former Minister of Foreign Affairsof Germany
'This wide-ranging collection of probing essays fromChatham House explores the daunting obstacles to the reassertion ofAmerican leadership in a changed world. The provisional answers itsuggests are as sobering as they are persuasive.'-
-- Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies,University of Oxford, and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, StAntony's College, Oxford
'American leadership of the global order is unavoidable.No other power can step into its shoes, yet. Yet while the worldcries out for American leadership, it also cries out for smarterand more sophisticated leadership of a more complex world. Thisbook could not be more timely. It provides wise counsel where it isneeded most.' -
-- Kishore Mahbubani, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School ofPublic Policy, National University of Singapore
'America and a Changed World speaks compellinglyto the necessity of an intelligent American foreign policy moreattuned to the realities of the twenty-first century.'-
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski, Professor of American foreignpolicy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns HopkinsUniversity and former National Security Advisor to President JimmyCarter
'At a time of great uncertainty about the future of USglobal leadership, America and a Changed World offers aseries of timely and important insights into the scale of thechallenge facing the Obama administration. As such, the book willserve as a very valuable reference point for students of US foreignpolicy and policy practitioners alike.' -
-- Joschka Fischer, former Minister of Foreign Affairsof Germany
'This wide-ranging collection of probing essays fromChatham House explores the daunting obstacles to the reassertion ofAmerican leadership in a changed world. The provisional answers itsuggests are as sobering as they are persuasive.'-
-- Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies,University of Oxford, and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, StAntony's College, Oxford
'American leadership of the global order is unavoidable.No other power can step into its shoes, yet. Yet while the worldcries out for American leadership, it also cries out for smarterand more sophisticated leadership of a more complex world. Thisbook could not be more timely. It provides wise counsel where it isneeded most.' -
-- Kishore Mahbubani, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School ofPublic Policy, National University of Singapore