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Power & responsibility : building international order in an era of transnational threats / Bruce Jones, Carlos Pascual, and Stephen John Stedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Bruce D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Security, International.
- Sovereignty.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Power and responsibility
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- "Makes the case for forming new international partnerships and revitalizing instruments of cooperation to address global challenges that post-WWII multilateral security systems cannot. Establishes a new conceptual foundation for international security: 'responsible sovereignty,' which entails obligations and duties and attitudinal changes toward other states as well one's own"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I. Power
- Sovereignty's last best chance
- Interests and order: the United States and the major and rising powers
- Power and institutions: an effective international architecture for responsible sovereignty
- Part II. Responsibility
- Arresting climate change
- The second nuclear age
- Security in the biological century
- Managing civil violence and regional conflict
- Combating transnational terrorism
- Strengthening the pillars of economic security
- Part III. Order
- The hardest case: the broader Middle East
- Urgency and choice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-346) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815747062
- 0815747063
- OCLC:
- 231581659
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