international leadership in a shrinking world
Powers and Principles: International Leadership in a Shrinking World
Co-published with: The Stanley Foundation
Edited by Michael Schiffer and David Shorr(Lanham. MD: Lexington Books, 2009)
Cloth 0-7391-3543-0 / 978-0-7391-3543-3; List Price: $85.00Paper 0-7391-3544-9 / 978-0-7391-3544-0; List Price: $32.95
May 28, 2009 328pp
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Old Guard
Chapter 1. A Stake in the System: Redefining American Leadership
Suzanne Nossel and David Shorr—Reaction by Nikolas Gvosdev
Chapter 2. Japan: Leading or Losing the Way Toward Responsible Stakeholdership?
Steven Clemons and Weston S. Konishi—Reaction by Masaru Tamamoto
Chapter 3. Rue de la Loi: The Global Ambition of the European Project
Ronald D. Asmus and Tod Lindberg—Reaction by Robert Cooper
Challengers
Chapter 4. A Rising China's Rising Responsibilities
Bates Gill and Michael Schiffer—Reaction by Wu Xinbo
Chapter 5. India: The Ultimate Test of Free-Market Democracy
Barbara Crossette and George Perkovich—Reaction by C. Raja Mohan
Chapter 6. Russia's Place in an Unsettled Order: Calculations in the Kremlin
Andrew Kuchins and Richard Weitz—Reaction by Dmitri Trenin
Bellwethers
Chapter 7. Turkey's Identity and Strategy: A Game of Three-Dimensional Chess
Zeyno Baran and Ian O. Lesser—Reaction by Huseyin Bagci
Chapter 8. Brazil's Candidacy for Major Power Status
Paulo Roberto de Almeida and Miguel Diaz—Reaction by Georges D. Landau
Square Pegs
Chapter 9. South Africa: From Beacon of Hope to Rogue Democracy?
Pauline H. Baker and Princeton N. Lyman—Reaction by Khehla Shubane
Chapter 10. Refashioning Iran's International Role
Suzanne Maloney and Ray Takeyh—Reaction by Omid Memarian
Chapter 11. Laggards on Responsibility: The Oil Majors
Susan Ariel Aaronson and David Deese—Reaction by Edward C. Chow
"The distinct lack of agreement among major powers today contradicts the idea of an international community bound by a common moral code. International norms nonetheless exert a degree of moral and political force as powerful nations vie for status and influence. Powers and Principles uses a novel and illuminating approach to examine the role of benevolent impulses in international affairs."—Robert Kagan, author of The Return of History and the End of Dreams and Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order.
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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.
Contributing writers were asked to describe the paths that nine powerful nations, a regional union of twenty-seven states, and a multinational corporation could take as constructive stakeholders in a strengthened rules-based international order. Each chapter is an assessment of what is politically possible (and impossible)—with a description of the associated pressures and reference to the country's geostrategic position, economy, society, history, and political system and culture. To provide a perspective from the inside and counterweight, each essay is accompanied by a critical reaction by a prominent analyst commentator from the given country.
Powers and Principles is aimed at both reflective practitioners of policy and policy-relevant scholars.
List of Contributors
Suzanne Nossel and David Shorr; Nikolas Gvosdev; Ronald D. Asmus and Tod Lindberg; Robert Cooper; Andrew Kuchins and Richard Weitz; Dmitri Trenin; Bates Gill and Michael Schiffer; Wu Xinbo; Barbara Crossette and George Perkovich; C. Raja Mohan; Zeyno Baran and Ian O. Lesser; Huseyin Bagci; Paulo Roberto de Almeida and Miguel Diaz; Georges D. Landau; Pauline H. Baker and Princeton N. Lyman; Khehla Shubane; Suzanne Maloney and Ray Takeyh; Omid Memarian; Susan Ariel Aaronson and David Deese; Edward C. Chow; Steven Clemons and Weston S. Konishi; Masaru Tamamoto
About the Editors
Michael Schiffer was, from 2006-2009, 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 Iowa.
David Shorr is a program officer at the Stanley Foundation. His last co-edited volume, a collection of bipartisan essays, was Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide.