Powers and Principles International Leadership in a Shrinking World

by Schiffer, Michael; Shorr, David; Nossel, Suzanne; Gvosdev, Nikolas; Asmus, Ronald D.; Lindberg, Tod; Cooper, Robert; Kuchins, Andrew; Weitz, Richard; Trenin, Dmitri; Gill, Bates; Xinbo, Wu; Crossette, Barbara; Perkovich, George; Mohan, C Raja; Baran, Zeyn

• ISBN13: 9780739135433
• ISBN10: 0739135430
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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.

Author Biography

Michael Schiffer was, from 2006 to 2009, a program officer in policy analysis and dialogue at The Stanley Foundation and a fellow at the Center for Asia and Pacific Studies at the University of lowa. David Shorr is a program officer at The Stanley Foundation. His last coedited volume, a collection of bipartisan essays, was Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Old Guard
A Stake in the System: Redefining American Leadership	p. 11
Reaction
Japan: Leading or Losing the Way Toward Responsible Stakeholdership?	p. 45
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Rue de la Loi: The Global Ambition of the European Project	p. 73
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Challengers
A Rising China's Rising Responsibilities	p. 99
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India: The Ultimate Test of Free-Market Democracy	p. 125
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Russia's Place in an Unsettled Order: Calculations in the Kremlin	p. 165
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Bellwethers
Turkey's Identity and Strategy: A Game of Three-Dimensional Chess	p. 197
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Brazil's Candidacy for Major Power Status	p. 225
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Square Pegs
South Africa: From Beacon of Hope to Rogue Democracy?	p. 259
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Refashioning Iran's International Role	p. 295
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Laggards on Responsibility: The Oil Majors	p. 321
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Index	p. 349
About the Contributors	p. 361
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