America and a Changed World (eBook, PDF)

A Question of Leadership
Redaktion: Niblett, Robin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Looking at a range of themes and regions, this book provides a challenging basis for rethinking America's international leadership. * Chatham House experts assess current US policy and the country's ability to continue to play an international leading role. * A timely exploration as President Barack Obama attempts to renew America's global leadership. * Broad range of contributors including Annette Bohr (Central Asia), Victor Bulmer-Thomas (Latin America), Alex Vines and Tom Cargill (Sub-Saharan Africa), Paul Cornish (Arms control), Paola Subacchi (Economics), Kerry Brown (China) and James Sherr (Russia).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444391558
• Artikelnr.: 38452967

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 vii
Notes on contributors ix
Introduction 1
Robin Niblett
Part I Deepening Regionalism and the US Response
1 Latin America: forging partnerships in a transformed region 15
Victor Bulmer-Thomas
2 The Middle East: changing from external arbiter to regional player 30
Claire Spencer
3 Sub-Saharan Africa: providing strategic vision or fire-fighting? 49
Alex Vines and Tom Cargill
4 East Asia: searching for consistency 71
John Swenson-Wright
5 South Asia: navigating minefields 89
Gareth Price
6 Central Asia: responding to the multi-vectoring game 109
Annette Bohr
7 The South Caucasus: drama on three stages 125
James Nixey
Part II Partners and Competitors
8 China: between global responsibilities and internal transitions 145
Kerry Brown
9 Russia: managing contradictions 162
James Sherr
10 Europe: transatlantic relations still drifting 185
Robin Niblett
Part III Global Challenges
11 International law and the United Nations: a new era of US engagement 205
Devika Hovell
12 Arms control tomorrow: the challenge of nuclear weapons in the
twenty-first century 223
Paul Cornish
13 The United States and climate change: from process to action 238
Bernice Lee and Michael Grubb with Felix Preston and Benjamin Zala
14 The role of the US in the post-crisis economic order 258
Paola Subacchi
Index 275

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