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Informationen zum Autor Robert Weiner is an associate lecturer in the Global Affairs Program at the University of Massachusetts/Boston and a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. He has worked as a consultant for Global Integrity, a Washington-based nongovernmental organization that investigates corruption in countries around the world. He is the author or editor of eight books that deal with such topics as Romanian foreign policy, the politics of East Europe, and global issues. He has authored more 20 book chapters, articles, and book reviews. Between 2001 and 2011, he was the Graduate Program Director of the Master's Program in International Relations of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts/Boston. Klappentext The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. Each Annual Editions volume has a number of features designed to make them especially valuable for classroom use: an annotated Table of Contents , a Topic Guide , an annotated listing of supporting websites, Learning Outcomes and a brief overview for each unit, and Critical Thinking questions at the end of each article. Go to the McGraw-Hill Create(TM) Annual Editions Article Collection at www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/annualeditions to browse the entire collection. Select individual Annual Editions articles to enhance your course, or access and select the entire Weiner: Annual Editions: World Politics, 35/e ExpressBook for an easy, pre-built teaching resource by clicking here. An online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing material is available for each Annual Editions volume. Visit the Create Central Online Learning Center at www.mhhe.com/createcentral for more details. Inhaltsverzeichnis UNIT: The Multipolar International System Think Again: The BRICS, Antoine Van Agtmael, Foreign Policy, 2012The author argues that the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) will be a dominant force in the global economy in the 21st century, but will not function as a cohesive power bloc and will grow more slowly economically. Japan's Cautious Hawks: Why Tokyo Is Unlikely to Pursue an Aggressive Foreign Policy, Gerald L. Curtis, Foreign Affairs, 2013The author deals with the question of whether Japan is pursuing a more autonomous and assertive foreign policy in the light of the economic decline of the U.S., the rise of China, and the acquisition of nuclear weapons by North Korea. Curtis concludes that the Japanese public is risk averse and that there will be no dramatic change in Tokyo's foreign policy as long as the U.S. provides for Japan's security. Japanese advocates of a more autonomous foreign policy argue for the need to provide for their own defense "in a newly multipolar Asia." Beware Collusion of China, Russia, Leslie H. Gelb and Dimitri K. Simes, The National Interest, 2013The authors argue that the U.S. policy of "dual containment" may be inadvertently promoting an alliance between Russia and China, which could have "a huge and lasting impact on global policy. "China and Russia are concerned about such factors as U.S. intervention in their internal affairs, the enlargement of NATO, and the pivot to Asia. The U.S. needs to pursue a more realistic policy toward Russia and China. The Global Power Shift from West to East, Christopher Layne, The National Interest, 2012Layne argues that the era of U.S. dominance is ending as ". . . America's power...
