Power and Responsibility Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats

by Jones, Bruce D.; Pascual, Carlos; Stedman, Stephen John

• ISBN13: 9780815705123
• ISBN10: 0815705123
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-28
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

The twenty-first century will be defined by security threats unconstrained by borders -from economic instability, climate change, and nuclear proliferation to conflict, poverty, terrorism, and disease. The greatest test of global leadership will be building partnerships and institutions for cooperation that can meet the challenge. Power and Responsibilitydescribes how American leadership can rebuild international order to promote global security and prosperity for today's transnational world.Praise for the hardcover edition of Power and Responsibility"In this major new treatise on twenty-first-century global security, Jones, Pascual, and Stedman -all experienced policy thinkers -provide a conceptual framework and comprehensive agenda for U.S. foreign policy in a world of security interdependence.... This is one of the best efforts yet to provide a coherent synthesis of the securityinterdependence worldview."-Foreign Affairs"What are the right kinds of institutions to order a globalized world, where transnational forces 'that have stitched the world together can also tear it apart'? This question is addressed with notable range and sophistication in this collaborative work by three individuals with significant research and frontline experience in the area of globalpolicymaking."-Ethics and International Affairs"By accepting that sovereignty incurs responsibilities and by strengthening international institutions, governments can create an international order in which all can be safe and thrive. This book makes a compelling argument for such an approach."-Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of United Nations AllGov

Author Biography

Bruce Jones is director of the Managing Global Insecurity initiative at the Brookings Institution and director of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. Carlos Pascual is U.S. ambassador to Mexico. He is a former vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings. Stephen John Stedman is senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and a former assistant secretary general and special adviser to the secretary general of the United Nations.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Power
Sovereignty's Last Best Chance	p. 3
Interests and Order: The United States and the Major and Rising Powers	p. 21
Power and Institutions: An Effective International Architecture for Responsible Sovereignty	p. 45
Responsibility
Arresting Climate Change	p. 75
The Second Nuclear Age	p. 107
Security in the Biological Century	p. 139
Managing Civil Violence and Regional Conflict	p. 170
Combating Transnational Terrorism	p. 204
Strengthening the Pillars of Economic Security	p. 234
Order
The Hardest Case: The Broader Middle East	p. 271
Urgency and Choice	p. 302
Notes	p. 317
Index	p. 347
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