America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership

Preface and acknowledgments vii

Notes on contributors ix

Introduction 1
Robin Niblett

Part I Deepening Regionalism and the US Response

1 Latin America: forging partnerships in a transformed region 15
Victor Bulmer-Thomas

2 The Middle East: changing from external arbiter to regional player 30
Claire Spencer

3 Sub-Saharan Africa: providing strategic vision or fire-fighting? 49
Alex Vines and Tom Cargill

4 East Asia: searching for consistency 71
John Swenson-Wright

5 South Asia: navigating minefields 89
Gareth Price

6 Central Asia: responding to the multi-vectoring game 109
Annette Bohr

7 The South Caucasus: drama on three stages 125
James Nixey

Part II Partners and Competitors

8 China: between global responsibilities and internal transitions 145
Kerry Brown

9 Russia: managing contradictions 162
James Sherr

10 Europe: transatlantic relations still drifting 185
Robin Niblett

Part III Global Challenges

11 International law and the United Nations: a new era of US engagement 205
Devika Hovell

12 Arms control tomorrow: the challenge of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century 223
Paul Cornish

13 The United States and climate change: from process to action 238
Bernice Lee and Michael Grubb with Felix Preston and Benjamin Zala

14 The role of the US in the post-crisis economic order 258
Paola Subacchi

Index 275