Powers and Principles: International Leadership in a Shrinking World

By David Shorr and Michael Schiffer

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739135449
• ISBN13: 9780739135440
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.8"