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International Leadership in a Shrinking World

Michael Schiffer (Anthology Editor) , David Shorr (Anthology Editor) , Suzanne Nossel (Contributor) , Nikolas Gvosdev (Contributor) , Ronald D. Asmus (Contributor) , Tod Lindberg (Contributor) ,
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Powers and Principles

International Leadership in a Shrinking World

Michael Schiffer (Anthology Editor) , David Shorr (Anthology Editor) , Suzanne Nossel (Contributor) , Nikolas Gvosdev (Contributor) , Ronald D. Asmus (Contributor) , Tod Lindberg (Contributor) ,
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What if the major global and regional powers of today's world came into closer alignment to build a stronger international community and shared approaches to twenty-first century threats and challenges? The Stanley Foundation posed that question to thirty-three top foreign policy analysts in Powers and Principles: International Leadership in a Shrinking World.

Contributing writers were asked to describe the paths that nine powerful nations, a regional union of twenty-seven states, and a multinational corporation could take as constructive stakeholders in a strengthened rules-based international order. Each chapter is an assessment of what is politically possible (and impossible)-with a description of the associated pressures and reference to the country's geostrategic position, economy, society, history, and political system and culture. To provide a perspective from the inside and counterweight, each essay is accompanied by a critical reaction by a prominent analyst commentator from the given country.

Powers and Principles is aimed at both reflective practitioners of policy and policy-relevant scholars.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Old Guard
Chapter 3 Chapter 1. A Stake in the System: Redefining American Leadership
Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Japan: Leading or Losing the Way Toward Responsible Stakeholdership?
Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Rue de la Loi: The Global Ambition of the European Project
Part 6 Challengers
Chapter 7 Chapter 4. A Rising China's Rising Responsibilities
Chapter 8 Chapter 5. India: The Ultimate Test of Free-Market Democracy
Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Russia's Place in an Unsettled Order: Calculations in the Kremlin
Part 10 Bellwethers
Chapter 11 Chapter 7. Turkey's Identity and Strategy: A Game of Three-Dimensional Chess
Chapter 12 Chapter 8. Brazil's Candidacy for Major Power Status
Part 13 Square Pegs
Chapter 14 Chapter 9. South Africa: From Beacon of Hope to Rogue Democracy?
Chapter 15 Chapter 10. Refashioning Iran's International Role
Chapter 16 Chapter 11. Laggards on Responsibility: The Oil Majors

Product details

Published May 16 2009
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 328
ISBN 9780739135457
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

MS
Anthology Editor

Michael Schiffer

DS
Anthology Editor

David Shorr

SN
Contributor

Suzanne Nossel

NG
Contributor

Nikolas Gvosdev

RA
Contributor

Ronald D. Asmus

TL
Contributor

Tod Lindberg

RC
Contributor

Robert Cooper

AK
Contributor

Andrew Kuchins

RW
Contributor

Richard Weitz

DT
Contributor

Dmitri Trenin

BG
Contributor

Bates Gill

WX
Contributor

Wu Xinbo

BC
Contributor

Barbara Crossette

GP
Contributor

George Perkovich

CM
Contributor

C Raja Mohan

ZB
Contributor

Zeyno Baran

IL
Contributor

Ian O. Lesser

HB
Contributor

Huseyin Bagci

PA
Contributor

Paulo Roberto de Almeida

MD
Contributor

Miguel Diaz

GL
Contributor

Georges D. Landau

PB
Contributor

Pauline H. Baker

PL
Contributor

Princeton N. Lyman

KS
Contributor

Khehla Shubane

SM
Contributor

Suzanne Maloney

RT
Contributor

Ray Takeyh

OM
Contributor

Omid Memarian

SA
Contributor

Susan Ariel Aaronson

DD
Contributor

David Deese

EC
Contributor

Edward C. Chow

SC
Contributor

Steven Clemons

WK
Contributor

Weston S. Konishi

MT
Contributor

Masaru Tamamoto

Reviews

  • The distinct lack of agreement among major powers today contradicts the idea of an international community bound by a common moral code. International norms nonetheless exert a degree of moral and political force as powerful nations vie for status and influence. Powers and Principles uses a novel and illuminating approach to examine the role of benevolent impulses in international affairs.

    Robert Kagan, author of The Return of History and the End of Dreams and Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order.

  • If the world of the 21st century is to be governed, and its daunting challenges addressed, the great powers will need to step forward to provide collective leadership. At the same time, this modern concert of powers must also be expanded to including rising states and new global stakeholders. Powers and Principles provides one of the best glimpses of these major players and their agendas. It offers an illuminating survey of the competing visions of global order and the terms upon which constructive order building might be based.

    G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University

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