"The aim of the Managing Global Insecurity project is to launch a reform effort of the global security system in 2009. That task is both ambitious and urgent.... The time to act is now."—from the Foreword by Javier Solana
 The twenty-first century will be defined by security threats unconstrained by borders—from economic instability, climate change, and nuclear proliferation to conflict, poverty, terrorism, and disease. The greatest test of global leadership will be building partnerships and institutions for cooperation that can meet the challenge. Power and Responsibility describes how American leadership can rebuild international order to promote global security and prosperity for today's transnational world. 
 Power &amp; Responsibility establishes a new foundation for international security: "responsible sovereignty," or the notion that sovereignty entails obligations and duties toward other states as well as one's own citizens. Governments must cooperate across borders to safeguard common resources and tackle common threats.
 Power &amp; Responsibility argues that in order to advance its own interests, the United States must learn to govern in an interdependent world, exercise leadership through cooperation, and create new institutions with today's traditional and emerging powers. The result of a collaborative project on Managing Global Insecurity, the book also reflects the MGI project's global dialogue—extensive consultations in the United States and in regions around the world as well as discussions with the MGI project's Advisory Group, composed of prominent U.S. and international figures.
 "The 2008 financial crisis has brought our global interconnectedness close to home. But economic insecurity is just one concern. Power and Responsibility provides a road map for building effective policies and legitimate global institutions to tackle today's suite of transnational challenges."—Kemal Dervis, administrator, UN Development Program

Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats

Politics & Social Sciences

Jones, Bruce D.

Politics & Government

Brookings Institution Press

Still Ours to Lead: America, Rising Powers, and the Tension between Rivalry and Restraint

Is the United States still a "superpower"? How are the rising powers establishing themselves in international politics and security? What is the future of global stability?
For over a decade, Bruce Jones has had a front-row seat as the emerging powers―principally China, India, and Brazil, but also Turkey, Indonesia, Korea, and others―thrust themselves onto the global stage. From Delhi to Doha to Beijing to Brasilia, he's met with the politicians, diplomats, business leaders, and scholars of those powers as they craft their strategies for rising influence―and with senior American officials as they forge their response. 
In Still Ours to Lead, Jones tells a nuanced story of American leadership. He artfully examines the tension between the impulse to rival the United States and the incentives for restraint and cooperation among the rising powers. That balance of rivalry and restraint provides the United States with a continued ability to solve problems and to manage crises at roughly the same rate as when American dominance was unquestioned. Maintaining the balance is central to the question of whether we will live in a stable or unstable system in the period to come. But it just so happens that this challenge plays to America's unique strength―its unparalleled ability to pull together broad and disparate coalitions for action. To succeed, America must adapt its leadership to new realities.

Is the United States still a "superpower"? How are the rising powers establishing themselves in international politics and security? What is the future of global stability?
 For over a decade, Bruce Jones has had a front-row seat as the emerging powers—principally China, India, and Brazil, but also Turkey, Indonesia, Korea, and others—thrust themselves onto the global stage. From Delhi to Doha to Beijing to Brasilia, he's met with the politicians, diplomats, business leaders, and scholars of those powers as they craft their strategies for rising influence—and with senior American officials as they forge their response.
 In Still Ours to Lead, Jones tells a nuanced story of American leadership. He artfully examines the tension between the impulse to rival the United States and the incentives for restraint and cooperation among the rising powers. That balance of rivalry and restraint provides the United States with a continued ability to solve problems and to manage crises at roughly the same rate as when American dominance was unquestioned. Maintaining the balance is central to the question of whether we will live in a stable or unstable system in the period to come. But it just so happens that this challenge plays to America's unique strength—its unparalleled ability to pull together broad and disparate coalitions for action. To succeed, America must adapt its leadership to new realities.

The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution

The last decade has seen a revolution in global energy. First, we saw explosive growth in demand from Asia's rising powers, which fueled fears about scarcity and conflict. But we've also seen an American revolution in technology and markets, resulting in a dramatic increase in sup-ply. This is strengthening America's hand in the world—but it's not without complications. There are major security consequences of these shifts. Among the most consequential are China and India, Asia's emerging giants, which are increasingly exposed to political risks associated with energy risks, as well as the energy flows, pivoting to Asia. Meanwhile the great powers struggle to balance their need for fossil fuels with a mounting effort to tackle climate change. The top powers, and the United States above all, face a stra-tegic choice: whether to use energy as a weapon of geopolitics, or as a tool of a stable order.
 CONTENTS
 Introduction
 1. The President and the King—Key Messages of the Book
 2. The Energy Revolutions—A Primer
 Geopolitics in Flux—The Players
 3. Choices—Scenarios, and the Choice the Powers Confront
 4. Rough Seas Ahead—The Great Powers' Search for Energy Security
 Globalization and Complexity—The Problems
 5. Transition in the Gulf
 6. The Turbulent Middle
 7. Fragile States
 8. The Russian Problem
 9. Connections—from Pipelines to Politics
 Governance—The Partners
 10. An Emerging System of Global Energy Governance
 11. Leadership Choices

Business & Money

Steven UN Foundation, David

Economics

"The aim of the Managing Global Insecurity project is to launch a reform effort of the global security system in 2009. That task is both ambitious and urgent.... The time to act is now." from the Foreword by Javier Solana
The twenty-first century will be defined by security threats unconstrained by borders from economic instability, climate change, and nuclear proliferation to conflict, poverty, terrorism, and disease. The greatest test of global leadership will be building partnerships and institutions for cooperation that can meet the challenge. Power and Responsibility describes how American leadership can rebuild international order to promote global security and prosperity for today's transnational world. 
 Power &amp; Responsibility establishes a new foundation for international security: "responsible sovereignty," or the notion that sovereignty entails obligations and duties toward other states as well as one's own citizens. Governments must cooperate across borders to safeguard common resources and tackle common threats. 
 Power &amp; Responsibility argues that in order to advance its own interests, the United States must learn to govern in an interdependent world, exercise leadership through cooperation, and create new institutions with today's traditional and emerging powers. The result of a collaborative project on Managing Global Insecurity, the book also reflects the MGI project's global dialogue extensive consultations in the United States and in regions around the world as well as discussions with the MGI project's Advisory Group, composed of prominent U.S. and international figures. 
 "The 2008 financial crisis has brought our global interconnectedness close to home. But economic insecurity is just one concern. Power and Responsibility provides a road map for building effective policies and legitimate global institutions to tackle today's suite of transnational challenges." Kemal Derviş, administrator, UN Development Program

Stedman, Stephen John

Pascual, Carlos

Jones (special assistant to the U.N.'s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process) considers the failure of efforts to prevent violence in Rwanda. He considers the efficacy of both official and informal efforts at mediation, peacekeeping, and aid. Citing theory and empirical evidence, he argues that the causes of failure were complex, and relied in part on the uncoordinated nature of various attempts to resolve the conflict, the intransigence of the warring factions, the lack of a coherent strategy, and weak international support. These difficulties, he suggests, revel the weaknesses of the current systems for preventing and managing conflict. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Peacemaking in Rwanda: The Dynamics of Failure (Project of the International Peace Academy)

History

Africa

Lynne Rienner Pub

"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance" "Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is" "Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind." Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. Liberties features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and leaders throughout the world; new poetry; and, introduces the next generation of writers and voices to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today's culture and politics. In this issue of Liberties, highlights include: Laura Kipnis on how to think (and how not to think) about gender; Robert Kagan on the values that define American identity; Andrea Marcolongo on the role of the intellectual in contemporary times; Michael Ignatieff on whether freedom of thought is possible in our highly politicized culture; David Greenberg on journalism's change of objectivity over time; Jack Goldsmith on conservatives' use of social media; Bruce Jones on the response to China's threat; Clara Collier on powerful women in old Westerns; Sir Robert Francis Cooper on Burma; Jared Marcel Pollen on Vaclav Havel's complicated legacy; Mitch Abidor's defense of Francois Truffaut; Andrew Butterfield on the creative inspiration from Dante's exile; David Bell on fascism's identity in France; Steven Nadler on Spinoza's ostracism; new literary criticism from Helen Vendler, and, poetry from Charis Vlavianos, Nathaniel Mackey, and Durs Grünbein.

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 3

Vendler, Helen

Bell, David A.

MacKey, Nathaniel

Kipnis, Laura

Abbot, Dorian

LÉVY, Bernard-Henri

Grünbein, Durs

Rowland, Ingrid

Collier, Clara

COOPER, ROBERT

Nadler, Steven M.

Vlavianos, Haris

Greenberg,David

Jensen, Morten Høi

Arts & Photography

Liberties Journal

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