America and a Changed World – A Question of Leadership

<p>Preface and acknowledgments vii</p>
<p>Notes on contributors ix</p>
<p>Introduction 1<br />Robin Niblett</p>
<p>Part I Deepening Regionalism and the US Response</p>
<p>1 Latin America: forging partnerships in a transformed region 15<br />Victor Bulmer–Thomas</p>
<p>2 The Middle East: changing from external arbiter to regional player 30<br />Claire Spencer</p>
<p>3 Sub–Saharan Africa: providing strategic vision or fire–fighting? 49<br />Alex Vines and Tom Cargill</p>
<p>4 East Asia: searching for consistency 71<br />John Swenson–Wright</p>
<p>5 South Asia: navigating minefields 89<br />Gareth Price</p>
<p>6 Central Asia: responding to the multi–vectoring game 109<br />Annette Bohr</p>
<p>7 The South Caucasus: drama on three stages 125<br />James Nixey</p>
<p>Part II Partners and Competitors</p>
<p>8 China: between global responsibilities and internal transitions 145<br />Kerry Brown</p>
<p>9 Russia: managing contradictions 162<br />James Sherr</p>
<p>10 Europe: transatlantic relations still drifting 185<br />Robin Niblett</p>
<p>Part III Global Challenges</p>
<p>11 International law and the United Nations: a new era of US engagement 205<br />Devika Hovell</p>
<p>12 Arms control tomorrow: the challenge of nuclear weapons in the twenty–first century 223<br />Paul Cornish</p>
<p>13 The United States and climate change: from process to action 238<br />Bernice Lee and Michael Grubb with Felix Preston and Benjamin Zala</p>
<p>14 The role of the US in the post–crisis economic order 258<br />Paola Subacchi</p>
<p>Index 275</p>