Power & responsibility : building international order in an era of transnational threats
Record details
- ISBN: 9781282131262
- ISBN: 1282131265
- ISBN: 0815701837
- ISBN: 9780815701835
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 360 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2009.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-346) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Security, International Sovereignty |