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MARTIN INDYK: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Martin Indyk, the director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. We're delighted to have you here this afternoon for the book launch of Cooperating for Peace and Security, a copy of which is awaiting you outside, Evolving Institutions and Arrangements in a Context of Changing U.S. Security Policy, edited by Bruce Jones, Shepard Forman and Rich Gowan. We're very happy to see this publication launched and to have the opportunity to have a discussion about it with four very distinguished and experienced guests.
For the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings, the issues involving the evolution of the global order or global system and how the changes in balance of power that arise from the emergence of new powers on the global stage, China, India and Brazil are the ones we're familiar with nowadays, and the decline - to use a loaded word - of all the powers like Russia, the European Union and the United States, is creating the potential for some shifts in the tectonic plates or changes in the balance of power that could have profound impacts on global security and order. That's the kind of issue that the Managing Global Insecurity Project - that is run by Bruce Jones [and] was established originally with Carlos Pascual, my predecessor and now our ambassador in Mexico - [deals with]. The Managing Global Insecurity Project looks at many of the facets of the changing patterns of this global order, and one important piece of that effort is to look at the evolution of international security institutions.
That's what this book is about. Cooperating for Peace and Security is one of the first books to look systematically at international security institutions and to ask the question whether and how they've evolved to meet key and American and global security interests. The chapters are authored by leading experts on topics that deal with the United Nations, U.S. multilateral cooperation, NATO, European and African security institutions, conflict, mediation, counterterrorism, international justice and humanitarian cooperation. The theme running through all of these chapters is the question of how the balance of power shapes international institutions and what this means for future challenges to international order.
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