America and a changed world
Subtitle: a question of leadership
By: edited by Robin Niblett
Series: Chatham House papers
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Chatham House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, U.K; Malden, MA; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781405198448; 9781405198455
Description: "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 a leading international role. Looking at a range of themes and regions, their analyses provide a challenging basis for rethinking America's international leadership"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction (Robin Niblett).; title: Part I Deepening Regionalism and the US Response; title: 1 Latin America: forging partnerships in a transformed region / Victor Bulmer-Thomas; title: 2 The Middle East: changing from external arbiter to regional player / Claire Spencer; title: 3 Sub-Saharan Africa: providing strategic vision or fire-fighting?  / Alex Vines and Tom Cargill; title: 4 East Asia: searching for consistency / John Swenson-Wright; title: 5 South Asia: navigating minefields / Gareth Price; title: 6 Central Asia: responding to the multi-vectoring game / Annette Bohr; title: 7 The South Caucasus: drama on three stages / James Nixey; title: Part II Partners and Competitors; title: 8 China: between global responsibilities and internal transitions / Kerry Brown; title: 9 Russia: managing contradictions / James Sherr; title: 10 Europe: transatlantic relations still drifting / Robin Niblett; title: Part III Global Challenges; title: 11 International law and the United Nations: a new era of US engagement / Devika Hovell; title: 12 Arms control tomorrow: the challenge of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century / Paul Cornish; title: 13 The United States and climate change: from process to action / Bernice Lee and Michael Grubb with Felix Preston and Benjamin Zala; title: 14 The role of the US in the post-crisis economic order / Paola Subacchi; title: Index.