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CIAO DATE: 06/05

What Does the World Want from America?: International Perspectives on US Foreign Policy

Alexander T. J. Lennon

MIT Press

November 2002

 

Abstract

The United States is the only superpower in the world today. Although the media are filled with prescriptions for how Washington might best wield its power, rarely are other countries asked what role they would like the United States to play.

In What Does the World Want from America?, writers from twelve countries or regions (Brazil, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Russia, Singapore, and South Africa) answer the question, "In an ideal world, what role would you want the United States to perform with your country and region?" Four analysts from the United States then respond, addressing the extent to which overseas opinion should be incorporated into the formulation and conduct of United States foreign policy and recommending what the United States should attempt to do in the world, particularly after the horrific attacks of September 11. What Does the World Want from America? serves as a starting point for analysis of the US role in the world and the ends to which US power might be used.

Alexander T. J. Lennon is Editor-in-Chief of The Washington Quarterly, the journal of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Through the Looking Glass
Alexander T. J. Lennon

I. How The World Sees The United States?

  1. To Be an Enlightened Superpower (PDF, 11 pgs, 75 KB)
    Wu Xinbo

  2. First among Equals
    Akio Watanabe

  3. Add Five 'E's to Make a Partnership
    Kanti Bajpai

  4. The Keystone of World Order
    Chong Guan Kwa and See Seng Tan

  5. Participate in the African Renaissance
    Francis Kornegay, Chris Landsberg and Steve McDonald

  6. Justice for All
    Mahmood Sariolghalam

  7. What Is Right Is in US Interests
    Barry Rubin

  8. Less Is More
    Dmitri Trenin

  9. Balance from Beyond the Sea
    Michael Sturmer

  10. The Specter of Unilateralism
    Pascal Boniface

  11. Wanted: A Global Partner
    Peter Ludlow

  12. Guide Globalization into a Just World Order
    Maria Claudia Drummond

II. How The Reflection Looks to the United States

  1. The New Normalcy
    Simon Serfaty

  2. Saved from Ourselves?
    Michael J. Mazarr

  3. Offshore Balancing Revisited
    Christopher Layne

  4. The End of Unilateralism or Unilateralism Redux?
    Steven E. Miller