Capacity and Resolve: Foreign Assessments of U.S. Power
This study looks at foreign assessments of U.S. power over the next ten years, the primary drivers of such views, and the implications of these assessments for sustained U.S. leadership in the coming era.
How the rest of the world sees the continuing capacity and relevance of U.S. leadership is at the heart of this volume. The specific question under investigation is how certain pivotal countries view U.S. power at this moment in time. Debates about U.S. primacy and decline tend to be episodic and somewhat academic in nature. And yet, the decisions our allies and adversaries make depend in part on their assessments of the trajectory of American power. Foreign assessments have real-world implications for U.S. policy. In this volume, CSIS experts analyze the views of U.S. power from 10 different strategically important countries/regions: China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, India, the Persian Gulf, Israel, Turkey, Germany, and Russia.
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Part 1 Asia
- A Shifting Balance:
Chinese Assessments of U.S. Power
Bonnie S. Glaser - Reassuring Presence:
Japanese Assessments of U.S. Power
Michael J. Green - Fundamental Realism:
Korean Assessments of U.S. Power
Victor D. Cha - Great, But Unfocused:
Indonesian Assessments of U.S. Power
Ernest Z. Bower - Continued Primacy, Diminished Will:
Indian Assessments of U.S. Power
Teresita C. Schaffer
Part 2 Middle East
- Fierce or Feeble:
Persian Gulf Assessments of U.S. Power
Jon B. Alterman - Uncertain Commitment:
Israeli Assessments of U.S. Power
Haim Malka
