Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-346) and index.
Foreword / Javier Solana -- Foreword / Brent Scowcroft -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Power -- Sovereignty's last best chance -- Interests and order : the United States and the major and rising powers -- Power and institutions : an effective international architecture for responsible sovereignty -- Part II. Responsibility -- Arresting climate change -- The second nuclear age -- Security in the biological century -- Managing civil violence and regional conflict -- Combating transnational terrorism -- Strengthening the pillars of economic security -- Part III. Order -- The hardest case : the broader Middle East -- Urgency and choice -- Notes -- Index.
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"Makes the case for forming new international partnerships and revitalizing instruments of cooperation to address global challenges that post-WWII multilateral security systems cannot. Establishes a new conceptual foundation for international security: 'responsible sovereignty, ' which entails obligations and duties and attitudinal changes toward other states as well one's own"--Provided by publisher.