America and a Changed World

A Question of Leadership
Herausgeber: Niblett, Robin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 a leading international role. Looking at a range of themes and regions, their analyses provide a challenging basis for rethinking America's international leadership.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781405198448
• ISBN-10: 1405198443
• Artikelnr.: 35340205

Autorenporträt

Dr Robin Niblett is the Director of Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs). He was previously Executive Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgments.

Notes on contributors.

Introduction (Robin Niblett).

Part I Deepening Regionalism and the US Response.

1 Latin America: forging partnerships in a transformed region(Victor Bulmer-Thomas).

2 The Middle East: changing from external arbiter to regionalplayer (Claire Spencer).

3 Sub-Saharan Africa: providing strategic vision orfire-fighting? (Alex Vines and Tom Cargill).

4 East Asia: searching for consistency (JohnSwenson-Wright).

5 South Asia: navigating minefields (Gareth Price).

6 Central Asia: responding to the multi-vectoring game(Annette Bohr).

7 The South Caucasus: drama on three stages (JamesNixey).

Part II Partners and Competitors.

8 China: between global responsibilities and internaltransitions (Kerry Brown).

9 Russia: managing contradictions (James Sherr).

10 Europe: transatlantic relations still drifting (RobinNiblett).

Part III Global Challenges.

11 International law and the United Nations: a new era of USengagement (Devika Hovell).

12 Arms control tomorrow: the challenge of nuclear weapons inthe twenty-first century (Paul Cornish).

13 The United States and climate change: from process to action(Bernice Lee and Michael Grubb with Felix Preston and BenjaminZala).

14 The role of the US in the post-crisis economic order(Paola Subacchi).

Index.

Rezensionen

"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 compellingly tothe 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.' - JoschkaFischer, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of 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 ofOxford, and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, St Antony'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 KuanYew School of Public Policy, National University ofSingapore