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America, Rising Powers, and the Tension between Rivalry and Restraint
Brookings Institution Press
March 2014
On Sale: March 17, 2014
275 pages ISBN: 0815725973 EAN: 9780815725978 Kindle: B00HQ42420 Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Is the United States still a "superpower"? How are the
rising powers establishing themselves in international
politics and security? What is the future of global
stability? For over a decade, Bruce Jones has had a
front-row seat as the emerging powers —principally China,
India, and Brazil, but also Turkey, Indonesia, Korea, and
others —thrust themselves onto the global stage. From Delhi
to Doha to Beijing to Brasilia, he's met with the
politicians, diplomats, business leaders, and scholars of
those powers as they craft their strategies for rising
influence —and with senior American officials as they forge
their response. In Still Ours to Lead, Jones
tells a nuanced story of American leadership. He artfully
examines the tension between the impulse to rival the United
States and the incentives for restraint and cooperation
among the rising powers. That balance of rivalry and
restraint provides the United States with a continued
ability to solve problems and to manage crises at roughly
the same rate as when American dominance was unquestioned.
Maintaining the balance is central to the question of
whether we will live in a stable or unstable system in the
period to come. But it just so happens that this challenge
plays to America's unique strength —its unparalleled ability
to pull together broad and disparate coalitions for action.
To succeed, America must adapt its leadership to new realities.
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