China, the United States, and Global Order

Rosemary Foot is Professor of International Relations and John Swire Senior Research Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Professor Foot has published numerous books, including Human Rights and Counterterrorism in America's Asia Policy (2004) and Rights beyond Borders: The Global Community and the Struggle over Human Rights in China (2000). Professor Foot is co-editor of several books including Does China Matter? A Reassessment (2004) and Order and Justice in International Relations (2003). Andrew Walter is Reader in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr Walter is co-author of Analyzing the Global Political Economy (2009). He has contributed to several books including Global Finance in Crisis (2009) and Making Global Self-Regulation Effective (2007).

• 1. Introduction: norms and global order; 2. Use of force; 3. Macroeconomic policy; 4. Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons; 5. Climate change; 6. Financial regulation; 7. Conclusion: behavioral consistency and its implication for global order.

'The overwhelming impression left at the end of Foot and Walter's excellent and very readable survey is of a United States which is still able to dominate many key areas of international norm-giving and rule-making, and a China gradually coming to terms with its new strength and responsibility, but still placing narrow national self-interest at the heart of how it behaves.' Kerry Brown, International Affairs