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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
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. LennonI. How The World Sees The United States?
To Be an Enlightened Superpower (PDF, 11 pgs, 75 KB)
Wu XinboFirst among Equals
Akio WatanabeAdd Five 'E's to Make a Partnership
Kanti BajpaiThe Keystone of World Order
Chong Guan Kwa and See Seng TanParticipate in the African Renaissance
Francis Kornegay, Chris Landsberg and Steve McDonaldJustice for All
Mahmood SariolghalamWhat Is Right Is in US Interests
Barry RubinLess Is More
Dmitri TreninBalance from Beyond the Sea
Michael SturmerThe Specter of Unilateralism
Pascal BonifaceWanted: A Global Partner
Peter LudlowGuide Globalization into a Just World Order
Maria Claudia DrummondII. How The Reflection Looks to the United States
The New Normalcy
Simon SerfatySaved from Ourselves?
Michael J. MazarrOffshore Balancing Revisited
Christopher LayneThe End of Unilateralism or Unilateralism Redux?
Steven E. Miller