Screen LibraryPower & responsibility：building international order in an era of transnational threats
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Brookings Institution Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Washington, D.C. |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxii, 360 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0815747063 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780815747062 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D815 |
| CLC: | D815.5 |
| Call Number: | D815.5/J764 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-346) and index. 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. "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. |