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Power and Superpower

Power and Superpower Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century

Jeffrey Laurenti, Morton H. Halperin, Peter Rundlet and Spencer P. Boyer, Century Foundation and Center For American Progress 2007 c. 440pp.

Foreword by Richard C. Leone and John D. Podesta

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: A World of Rules

Part I: American Exceptionalism and the U.S. Role in the World

2. The Roots of Liberal Internationalism: Lessons from the Past

3. Ideological Partisanship and American Public Opinion toward Foreign Policy

4. Global Leadership: American Exceptionalism in a Changing World Order

5. Law v. Legitimacy: Obligation and Justification in America's Foreign Relations

Part II: Force and Enforcement

6. Force and Legitimacy in the Post-9/11 Era: What Principles Should Guide the United States?

7. Operations Other Than War: Alternatives to the Traditional Uses of Military Power

8. Renewing the Nuclear Bargain

Part III: Human Rights, Democracy, and Changing Notions of State Sovereignty

9. Strengthening Weak States: A Twenty-First Century Imperative

10. The Promise of Democracy Promotion

11. "Grab Whom You Must: Do What You Want": U.S. Exceptionalism and the "War on Terror"

Part IV: Global Economy

12. Trade Policy: The Exception to American Exceptionalism?

13. Freedom from Want: American Exceptionalism and Global Development

14. The Pivotal Power: The United States and Climate Change

15. Standards for Trade

Part V: Power and Superpower: Global Leadership in the 21st Century

16. Remarks by Madeleine K. Albright

17. Remarks by Mark Malloch Brown

18. Remarks by Representative James A. Leach

19. Remarks by George Soros

Notes

Index

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