Powers and principles : international leadership in a shrinking world / edited by Michael Schiffer and David Shorr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schiffer, Michael, 1965-

Shorr, David.

Stanley Foundation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--21st century.

United States.

International relations.

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

Physical Description:

viii, 367 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009]

Summary:

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 goestrategic position, economy, society, history, and political system and culture. To provide a perspective from the inside and a 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.

Contents:

Part 1 Old Guard

A Stake in the System: Redefining American Leadership / Suzanne Nossel, David Shorr, Nikolas Gvosdev 11

Japan: Leading or Losing the Way Toward Responsible Stakeholdership? / Steven Clemons, Weston S. Konishi, Masaru Tamamoto 45

Rue de la Loi: The Global Ambition of the European Project / Ronald D. Asmus, Tod Lindberg, Robert Cooper 73

Part 2 Challengers

A Rising China's Rising Responsibilities / Bates Gill, Michael Schiffer, Wu Xinbo 99

India: The Ultimate Test of Free-Market Democracy / Barbara Crossette, George Perkovich, C. Raja Mohan 125

Russia's Place in an Unsettled Order: Calculations in the Kremlin / Andrew Kuchins, Richard Weitz, Dmitri Trenin 165

Part 3 Bellwethers

Turkey's Identity and Strategy: A Game of Three-Dimensional Chess / Zeyno Baran, Ian O. Lesser, Hüseyin Baǧci 197

Brazil's Candidacy for Major Power Status / Paulo Roberto de Almeida, Miguel Diaz, Georges D. Landau 225

Part 4 Square Pegs

South Africa: From Beacon of Hope to Rogue Democracy? / Pauline H. Baker, Princeton N. Lyman, Khehla Shubane 259

Refashioning Iran's International Role / Suzanne Maloney, Ray Takeyh, Omid Memarian 295

Laggards on Responsibility: The Oil Majors / Susan Ariel Aaronson, David Deese, Edward C. Chow 321.

Notes:

Part of the Stanley Foundation's powers and principles project.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739135433

0739135430

9780739135440

0739135449

9780739135457

0739135457

OCLC:

300031212