Challenge and Change

Norma Noonan is Professor Emerita of Political Science and Leadership Studies at Augsburg College, USA. She is the co-editor of Emerging Powers in Comparative Perspective (2013), co-author and co-editor of Women in Russian Politics and Society (1996), and editor and contributor to Encyclopedia of Russian Women’s Movements (2001). Vidya Nadkarni is Professor of Political Science at the University of San Diego, USA. She is the author of Strategic Partnerships in Asia (2010), co-editor of Emerging Powers in Comparative Perspective (2013), and co-author of The Foreign Policy of Russia (Fifth Edition, 2014)

• Introduction .- The End of the Western Age?  The  21st Century Challenges for the West .- A Russian Perspective on the 21st Century Challenges .- The Economic Dimensions of Globalization .- Global Challenges in a Hyper Connected World .-  Technology and International Security .- Terrorism in the 21st Century .- International Norms in the New Common Spaces .- A Final World.