America and a changed world
Subtitle: a question of leadership
By: edited by Robin Niblett.
Contributors: Niblett, Robin, 1961-
Series: Chatham House papers
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405198448; 9781405198455
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-
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: Machine generated contents note:; title: Preface and acknowledgments; title: Contributors; 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.