G. John Ikenberry

This small gem of a book brings together academic experts and government veterans to reflect on how the United States, in the words of Secretary of State Dean Acheson, should "look ahead . . . to see the emerging form of things to come and outline what should be done to meet or anticipate them."

Invoking the grand logic of the rise and fall of great powers, Jacques, a journalist, makes the case that China will dominate and reshape the global system.

Rudolph and Rudolph, longtime leading scholars of the United States' relations with India, explore the ways in which three "imperial" presidents -- Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bush -- conducted policy toward a fast-changing South Asia.

The liberal vision of world politics seemed to emerge triumphant in the aftermath of the Cold War, but doubts have since grown about its superiority and universal appeal. This book rises to its defense.

In this magisterial new volume, Lebow lays out his own sweeping theory of society, history, and international order.

Democratic states have periodically been threatened by demagogues -- political figures who fashion themselves as leaders of the people but in fact use the levers of government to establish autocratic rule. In this intriguing book, Signer explores the intellectual and historical aspects of this old and troubling danger.

In this sobering study, David argues that domestic upheaval and state collapse are replacing rising states and great-power rivalry as the chief threats to U.S. interests and global security.

Evans is one of the leading intellectual forces behind the doctrine of "the responsibility to protect" and this book provides a grand statement of the idea and describes the troubled world setting in which it emerged and its far-ranging implications.

This important volume, edited by a leading figure in the foreign policy establishment, makes an eloquent argument for why today's decision-makers have no choice but to act on the coming dangers of global climate change.

In this fascinating account of how leading democratic states struggle over conflicts between hard-nosed strategic calculations and liberal democratic and humanitarian norms, Walldorf argues that it is in the legislative bodies of democratic states that ferment over human rights is concentrated.