Description
Book SynopsisLooking at a range of themes and regions, this book provides a challenging basis for rethinking America''s international leadership.
- Chatham House experts assess current US policy and the country''s ability to continue to play an international leading role.
- A timely exploration as President Barack Obama attempts to renew America's global leadership.
- Broad 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).
Trade Review"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)
Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgments vii
Notes on contributors ix
Introduction 1
Robin Niblett
Part I Deepening Regionalism and the US Response
1 Latin America: forging partnerships in a transformed region 15
Victor Bulmer-Thomas
2 The Middle East: changing from external arbiter to regional player 30
Claire Spencer
3 Sub-Saharan Africa: providing strategic vision or fire-fighting? 49
Alex Vines and Tom Cargill
4 East Asia: searching for consistency 71
John Swenson-Wright
5 South Asia: navigating minefields 89
Gareth Price
6 Central Asia: responding to the multi-vectoring game 109
Annette Bohr
7 The South Caucasus: drama on three stages 125
James Nixey
Part II Partners and Competitors
8 China: between global responsibilities and internal transitions 145
Kerry Brown
9 Russia: managing contradictions 162
James Sherr
10 Europe: transatlantic relations still drifting 185
Robin Niblett
Part III Global Challenges
11 International law and the United Nations: a new era of US engagement 205
Devika Hovell
12 Arms control tomorrow: the challenge of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century 223
Paul Cornish
13 The United States and climate change: from process to action 238
Bernice Lee and Michael Grubb with Felix Preston and Benjamin Zala
14 The role of the US in the post-crisis economic order 258
Paola Subacchi
Index 275
