America and a Changed World:

A Question of Leadership

Edited by Robin Niblett

In this forthcoming Chatham House Paper, co-published with Wiley-Blackwell, Chatham House experts assess American policy after one year of the presidency of Barack Obama and consider the most promising areas for future US international influence. In a broad range of chapters, they offer recommendations on how US engagement could have the most beneficial impact on different countries, regions and policy areas from climate change and energy security to the reform of international institutions.

Publication date: May 2010

ISBN (paperback) 978 1 4051 9845 5 £19.99

ISBN (hardback) 978 1 4051 9844 8 £50.00

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