Capacity and Resolve: Foreign Assessments of U.S. Power

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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Foreword
John J. Hamre

Executive Summary

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Craig S. Cohen

Part 1 Asia

1. A Shifting Balance:
   Chinese Assessments of U.S. Power
   Bonnie S. Glaser

    

2. Reassuring Presence:
   Japanese Assessments of U.S. Power
   Michael J. Green

    

3. Fundamental Realism:
   Korean Assessments of U.S. Power
   Victor D. Cha

    

4. Great, But Unfocused:
   Indonesian Assessments of U.S. Power
   Ernest Z. Bower

    

5. Continued Primacy, Diminished Will:
   Indian Assessments of U.S. Power
   Teresita C. Schaffer

    

Part 2 Middle East

6. Fierce or Feeble:
   Persian Gulf Assessments of U.S. Power
   Jon B. Alterman

    

7. Uncertain Commitment:
   Israeli Assessments of U.S. Power
   Haim Malka

    

Part 3 Eurasia

8. Misplaced Priorities:
   Turkish Assessments of U.S. Power
   Stephen J. Flanagan

    

9. Fading Sentimentality:
   German Assessments of U.S. Power
   Heather A. Conley

    

10. Reset Expectations:
    Russian Assessments of U.S. Power
    Andrew C. Kuchins