Worldviews of Aspiring Powers

Henry Nau is Professor of Political Science, George Washington University, and author of The Myth of America's Decline (Oxford UP). Deepa Ollapally is Associate Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University, and author of The Politics of Extremism in South Asia (Cambridge UP)

• 1. Introduction: Domestic Voices of Aspiring Powers ; Henry R. Nau ; 2. China: The Conflicted Rising Power ; David Shambaugh and Ren Xiao ; 3. India: Foreign Policy Perspectives of an Ambiguous Power ; Deepa Ollapally and Rajesh Rajapopalan ; 4. Iran's Post-Revolution Foreign Policy Puzzle ; Farideh Farhi and Saideh Lotfian ; 5. Hugging and Hedging: Japanese Grand Strategy in the 21st Century ; Narushige Michishita and Richard J. Samuels ; 6. Russia's Contested National Identity and Foreign Policy ; Andrew Kutchins and Igor Zevelev ; 7. Conclusion: Realists, Nationalists and Globalists and the Nature of Contemporary Rising Powers ; Deepa Ollapally and Nikola Mirilovic

These essays are an innovative effort to identify and explain common themes in the foreign policy thinking and formulation of the world's most important aspiring powers. An attentive reader will come away with a sharper understanding of both the pace and the direction of global change and the implications of that change for American power abroad.