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Still Ours to Lead: America, Rising Powers, and the Tension between Rivalry and Restraint Hardcover – March 17, 2014

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Is the United States still a ""superpower""? How are the rising powers establishing themselves in international politics and security? What is the future of global stability?

For over a decade, Bruce Jones has had a front-row seat as the emerging powers—principally China, India, and Brazil, but also Turkey, Indonesia, Korea, and others—thrust themselves onto the global stage. From Delhi to Doha to Beijing to Brasilia, he's met with the politicians, diplomats, business leaders, and scholars of those powers as they craft their strategies for rising influence—and with senior American officials as they forge their response.

In Still Ours to Lead, Jones tells a nuanced story of American leadership. He artfully examines the tension between the impulse to rival the United States and the incentives for restraint and cooperation among the rising powers. That balance of rivalry and restraint provides the United States with a continued ability to solve problems and to manage crises at roughly the same rate as when American dominance was unquestioned. Maintaining the balance is central to the question of whether we will live in a stable or unstable system in the period to come. But it just so happens that this challenge plays to America's unique strength—its unparalleled ability to pull together broad and disparate coalitions for action. To succeed, America must adapt its leadership to new realities.


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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2014
    Bruce is equipped and delivers a broad-ranging analysis of the global order from an American perspective. He examines the impact of the rising states China, but also Brazil and India. But is focus is on US leadership in a world order in transition. Worth a good read.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2014
    A former advisor of UN chief Kofi Anan, the author has had access to a relevant number of decision-makers around the world. His contacts gave him the opportunity to survey their publishable versions about the rivalry between 'rising powers' and the US. In this book he summarizes fairly well the debate on the eroding US hegemony. His analysis of what he denominates 'psychology of rise', though, is based on very inaccurate information, given by a sample of scarcely representative interviewees. Judging by the case of Brazil, an ever emerging economy, but hardly a rising power - which he depicts as a reemerging world power (sic), as having plunged headlong in the Washigton consensus in the 1980s, when it reluctantly opened its economy in the mid1990s, or labels Brazil as a semisocialist regime - makes me wonder about the inaccuracies regarding India, Turkey or China. It is only fair to admit that his summary of the litterature about China's rivalry with the US is very extensive.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2014
    We stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us ! We each have a responsibility (as citizens of our country) to hold our elected representatives to a standard of statesmanship and accountability that will again put America in a position of world leadership
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2014
    Your opinion of this book will probably depend on what you are expecting to get out of it. Reading this type of book is my hobby, and I am much more interesting in well-argued, thought-stimulating prose rather than a worked out solution to the world's problems. Having said that, I was mostly satisfied with the book, although there were a few shortcomings.

    === The Good Stuff ===

    * Bruce Jones writes well, and is not afraid to take a position on the worlds issues. He captures a nice mix of current trends in the world, including the rise of China, Brazil, India and Russia, the post-industrial trends of the US Economy, and the economic patterns of trade. He also analyzes the military capabilities of these same countries, and attempts to tie all this together.

    * Jones would argue that the US is not in as much "trouble" as pundits would have us believe. I won't spoil the thunder of the book, but he makes the case for the US still being a presence in the world for some time, both based on its military and economic prowess. While I am not sure he makes a logical proof of this, he certainly makes some well-reasoned arguments. To be fair, I am not sure you can "prove" this- as with anything involving human events, the best you can do is forecast trends.

    * There is a fair amount of detail in the book, but Jones does not get bogged down in the details and minutia of statistics. In some cases he paints with a pretty broad brush, but that is just the nature of these types of books. I am reasonably well read on this subject, so I didn't learn a lot of factual information from the book, but i did enjoy seeing Jones' arguments laid out, and enjoyed trying to poke holes in them.

    === The Not-So-Good Stuff ===

    * Jones equates economic and military power, and bounces between the two fo them as if they are equivalent. I don't believe they are. The Asian Tigers are not really military powers, but carry quite the economic wallop, while even economic basket-cases like North Korea have some military resources.

    * The biggest problem I had with the book is the lack of dissenting opinion and analysis of how the opinions presented could be incorrect. For example, Jones makes much of the economic power of the US and its allies versus countries considered hostile to the US. But this is an overly simplified view...remember that France was the biggest trading partner of Nazi Germany in the late '30s. So while it may be comforting to know that many of our military allies are economically powerful, there is not a 100% correlation between economic and military relationships.

    === Summary ===

    I enjoyed the book, simply because it took a position, make a case for it and provided real data to support the conclusions. I would have been much happier to see opposing arguments and the rebuttals to them, If you enjoy this type of work, even if you don't agree with the conclusions, you will probably find the book worth your time.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2014
    As a nation, most citizens have abandoned in-depth analysis in favor of sound bites that offer simple explanations of complex problems. I’ve heard numerous people discuss the apparent decline of America’s position as a world leader. The apparent decline of American leadership has become a recurring theme on many social media sites.

    Bruce Jones, author of Still Ours to Lead, challenges the popular belief that America has forever lost its position as the number one world power. His analysis is exhaustive – examining the issues rather deeply. While I do not profess to be an expert in these matters, he makes a convincing argument for his point of view. He fails to present any significant counter arguments to his way of thinking. I believe to get a balanced view of the situation, it would be necessary to read other views on this matter.

    He does an in-depth examination of the shift in the world power structure – both economically and militarily. Mr. Jones does concede that there is a relative shift – that other countries – Brazil, India and China are growing stronger. But his main point is that America is still the only country capable of maintaining world order. While many other counties may not always agree or approve of the policies advocated by America, they still rely on America as the world leader to keep other countries in check.

    This book is not casual reading. If you are not a serious student of global politics, then this book will probably not be high on your reading lists. If you are keenly interested in global politics, you will probably find yourself challenging some of the conclusions Mr. Jones comes to.

    Mr. Jones has extensive experience and first hand knowledge of many events that shape global politics. His writing clearly establishes him as very informed in this area. His writing style tends to be rather academic.

    Your appreciation of this book will depend on your level of interest in global politics and the extent your views are aligned with his. The positions are well thought out. There are extensive end notes for those wishing to do further research or view the source material.

    In my opinion, this book is for the serious student, not the casual reader.

    I was provided a review copy of this book.

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  • Andreas Falke
    5.0 out of 5 stars America is not over
    Reviewed in Germany on April 8, 2014
    Dies ist bisher die beste Bestandsaufnahme zur Rolle der USA als Weltmacht, die das überliche Niedergangsgesäusel hinter sich lässt, und die Stärke der USA an den Potenzen der möglichen Rivalen misst und dann anschließend die Machtanalyse an spezifischen Politikbereichen (Sicherheit, Ökonomie, Klimaschutz) durchdekliniert. "No mortar in the BRICs beschreibt die Denkrichtung.