{"product_id":"america-and-a-changed-world-isbn-9781405198455","title":"America and a Changed World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLooking at a range of themes and regions, this book provides a challenging basis for rethinking America's international leadership.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eChatham House experts assess current US policy and the country's ability to continue to play an international leading role.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA timely exploration as President Barack Obama attempts to renew America’s global leadership.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBroad 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).\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and acknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobin Niblett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Deepening Regionalism and the US Response\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Latin America: forging partnerships in a transformed region 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictor Bulmer-Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Middle East: changing from external arbiter to regional player 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaire Spencer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Sub-Saharan Africa: providing strategic vision or fire-fighting? 49\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlex Vines and Tom Cargill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 East Asia: searching for consistency 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Swenson-Wright\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 South Asia: navigating minefields 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGareth Price\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Central Asia: responding to the multi-vectoring game 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnnette Bohr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The South Caucasus: drama on three stages 125\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Nixey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Partners and Competitors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 China: between global responsibilities and internal transitions 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKerry Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Russia: managing contradictions 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Sherr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Europe: transatlantic relations still drifting 185\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobin Niblett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Global Challenges\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 International law and the United Nations: a new era of US engagement 205\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDevika Hovell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Arms control tomorrow: the challenge of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century 223\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Cornish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The United States and climate change: from process to action 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernice Lee and Michael Grubb with Felix Preston and Benjamin Zala\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The role of the US in the post-crisis economic order 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaola Subacchi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 275\u003c\/p\u003e  \"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)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eRobin Niblett\u003c\/b\u003e 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. As President Barack Obama attempts to renew America's global leadership, scholars affiliated with Chatham House offer expert perspectives from outside the United States on its ability to continue to play an international leading role. Looking at a range of themes and regions, their analyses provide a challenging basis for rethinking America's international leadership.  ‘\u003ci\u003eAmerica and a Changed World\u003c\/i\u003e speaks compellingly to the necessity of an intelligent American foreign policy more attuned to the realities of the twenty-first century.’ –\u003cbr\u003e — \u003ci\u003eZbigniew Brzezinski,\u003c\/i\u003e Professor of American foreign policy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter  \u003cp\u003e‘At a time of great uncertainty about the future of US global leadership, \u003ci\u003eAmerica and a Changed World\u003c\/i\u003e 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.’ –\u003cbr\u003e — \u003ci\u003eJoschka Fischer,\u003c\/i\u003e former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘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.’ –\u003cbr\u003e — \u003ci\u003eTimothy Garton Ash,\u003c\/i\u003e Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘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.’ –\u003cbr\u003e — \u003ci\u003eKishore Mahbubani,\u003c\/i\u003e Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988717945061,"sku":"NP9781405198455","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405198455.jpg?v=1761781314","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/america-and-a-changed-world-isbn-9781405198455","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}