Powers and principles : international leadership in a shrinking world / edited by Michael Schiffer and David Shorr.

Part of the Stanley Foundation's powers and principles project.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Old Guard -- A Stake in the System: Redefining American Leadership / Suzanne Nossel and David Shorr -- Reaction / Nikolas Gvosdev -- Japan: Leading or Losing the Way Toward Responsible Stakeholdership? / Steven Clemons and Weston S. Konishi -- Reaction / Masaru Tamamoto -- Rue de la Loi: The Global Ambition of the European Project / Ronald D. Asmus and Tod Lindberg -- Reaction / Robert Cooper -- Pt. 2. Challengers -- A Rising China's Rising Responsibilities / Bates Gill and Michael Schiffer -- Reaction / Wu Xinbo -- India: The Ultimate Test of Free-Market Democracy / Barbara Crossette and George Perkovich -- Reaction / C. Raja Mohan -- Russia's Place in an Unsettled Order: Calculations in the Kremlin / Andrew Kuchins and Richard Weitz -- Reaction / Dmitri Trenin -- Pt. 3. Bellwethers -- Turkey's Identity and Strategy: A Game of Three-Dimensional Chess / Zeyno Baran and Ian O. Lesser -- Reaction / Huseyin Bagci -- Brazil's Candidacy for Major Power Status / Paulo Roberto de Almeida and Miguel Diaz -- Reaction / Georges D. Landau -- Pt. 4. Square Pegs -- South Africa: From Beacon of Hope to Rogue Democracy? / Pauline H. Baker and Princeton N. Lyman -- Reaction / Khehla Shubane -- Refashioning Iran's International Role / Suzanne Maloney and Ray Takeyh -- Reaction / Omid Memarian -- Laggards on Responsibility: The Oil Majors / Susan Ariel Aaronson and David Deese -- Reaction / Edward C. Chow.