America and a Changed World

Dr Robin Niblett is the Director of Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs). He was previously Executive Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.

• Preface and acknowledgments viiNotes on contributors ixIntroduction 1Robin NiblettPart I Deepening Regionalism and the US Response1 Latin America: forging partnerships in a transformed region 15Victor Bulmer-Thomas2 The Middle East: changing from external arbiter to regional player 30Claire Spencer3 Sub-Saharan Africa: providing strategic vision or fire-fighting? 49Alex Vines and Tom Cargill4 East Asia: searching for consistency 71John Swenson-Wright5 South Asia: navigating minefields 89Gareth Price6 Central Asia: responding to the multi-vectoring game 109Annette Bohr7 The South Caucasus: drama on three stages 125James NixeyPart II Partners and Competitors8 China: between global responsibilities and internal transitions 145Kerry Brown9 Russia: managing contradictions 162James Sherr10 Europe: transatlantic relations still drifting 185Robin NiblettPart III Global Challenges11 International law and the United Nations: a new era of US engagement 205Devika Hovell12 Arms control tomorrow: the challenge of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century 223Paul Cornish13 The United States and climate change: from process to action 238Bernice Lee and Michael Grubb with Felix Preston and Benjamin Zala14 The role of the US in the post-crisis economic order 258Paola SubacchiIndex 275

"Niblett manages to assemble a book that is surprisingly cohesive despite its vast scope . . . the immediacy, though, gives the book a journalistic quality." (The International Spectator, 2010)