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Author:

Jones, Bruce D.

Title:

Power & responsibility : building international order in an era of transnational threats / Bruce Jones, Carlos Pascual, and Stephen John Stedman.

Publisher:

Brookings Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xxii, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Security, International.
Sovereignty.

Other Authors:

Pascual, Carlos.
Stedman, Stephen John.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-346) and index.

Contents:

Foreword / Javier Solana -- Foreword / Brent Scowcroft -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Power -- Sovereignty's last best chance -- Interests and order : the United States and the major and rising powers -- Power and institutions : an effective international architecture for responsible sovereignty -- Part II. Responsibility -- Arresting climate change -- The second nuclear age -- Security in the biological century -- Managing civil violence and regional conflict -- Combating transnational terrorism -- Strengthening the pillars of economic security -- Part III. Order -- The hardest case : the broader Middle East -- Urgency and choice -- Notes -- Index.

Summary:

"Makes the case for forming new international partnerships and revitalizing instruments of cooperation to address global challenges that post-WWII multilateral security systems cannot. Establishes a new conceptual foundation for international security: 'responsible sovereignty,' which entails obligations and duties and attitudinal changes toward other states as well one's own"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780815747062 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815747063 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008050917

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)