America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership / Edition 1

by Robin Niblett

Overview

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405198455
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/10/2010
Series:	Chatham House Papers
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Robin Niblett is the Director of Chatham House. He was previously Executive Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington from 2001 to 2006.

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Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgments vii

Notes on contributors ix

Introduction Robin Niblett 1

Part I Deepening Regionalism and the US Response

1 Latin America: forging partnerships in a transformed region Victor Bulmer-Thomas 15

2 The Middle East: changing from external arbiter to regional player Claire Spencer 30

3 Sub-Saharan Africa: providing strategic vision or fire-fighting? Alex Vines Tom Cargill 49

4 East Asia: searching for consistency John Swenson-Wright 71

5 South Asia: navigating minefields Gareth Price 89

6 Central Asia: responding to the multi-vectoring game Annette Bohr 109

7 The South Caucasus: drama on three stages James Nixey 125

Part II Partners and Competitors

8 China: between global responsibilities and internal transitions Kerry Brown 145

9 Russia: managing contradictions James Sherr 162

10 Europe: transatlantic relations still drifting Robin Niblett 185

Part III Global Challenges

11 International law and the United Nations: a new era of US engagement Devika Hovell 205

12 Arms control tomorrow: the challenge of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century Paul Cornish 223

13 The United States and climate change: from process to action Bernice Lee Michael Grubb Felix Preston Benjamin Zala 238

14 The role of the US in the post-crisis economic order Paola Subacchi 258

Index 275

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

‘America and a Changed World speaks compellingly to the necessity of an intelligent American foreign policy more attuned to the realities of the twenty-first century.’ –
— Zbigniew Brzezinski, Professor of American foreign policy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter

‘At a time of great uncertainty about the future of US global leadership, America and a Changed World offers a series of timely and important insights into the scale of the challenge facing the Obama administration. As such, the book will serve as a very valuable reference point for students of US foreign policy and policy practitioners alike.’ –
— Joschka Fischer, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany

‘This wide-ranging collection of probing essays from Chatham House explores the daunting obstacles to the reassertion of American leadership in a changed world. The provisional answers it suggests are as sobering as they are persuasive.’ –
— Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, 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 world cries out for American leadership, it also cries out for smarter and more sophisticated leadership of a more complex world. This book could not be more timely. It provides wise counsel where it is needed most.’ –
— Kishore Mahbubani, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore 

Editorial Reviews

"Niblett manages to assemble a book that is surprisingly cohesive despite its vast scope . . . the immediacy, though, gives the book a journalistic quality." (The International Spectator, 2010)

 

 

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