47.
Kalder,
New Continentalism
, p. 8.
48.
Susan Shirk,
China: Fragile Superpower
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 257–58.
49.
Kalder,
New Continentalism
, p. 23.
50.
Tony Smith,
The Pattern of Imperialism: The United States, Great Britain, and the Late-Industrializing World Since 1815
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
51.
Coll,
Private Empire
, p. 241.
52.
Kissinger,
On China
, pp. 513–30.
53.
See Arthur S. Herman,
To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004).
54.
Dambisa Mayo,
Winner Takes Alclass="underline" China’s Race for Resources and What It Means for the World
(New York: Basic Books, 2012).
55.
Debora Brautigam,
The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
56.
Vali Nasr, “International Politics, Domestic Imperatives, and the Rise of Politics of Identity: Sectarianism in Pakistan, 1979–1997,”
Comparative Politics
32, no. 2 (January 2000): 171–90; Vali Nasr, “The Rise of Sunni Militancy in Pakistan: The Changing Role of Islamism and the Ulama in Society and Politics,”
Modern Asian Studies
34, no. 1 (January 2000): 139–80.
57.
Vali Nasr,
The Shia Revivaclass="underline" How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future
(New York: Norton, 2006), pp. 147–68.
58.
James Lamont and Farhan Bokhari, “China-Pakistan Military Links Upset India,”
Financial Times
, November 27, 2009,
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9d5497f0-db8d-11de-9424-00144feabdc0.html
.
59.
Ibid.
60.
“Pakistan, China Have Shared Interests in Peace Promotion: PM,”
Nation
, May 15, 2012,
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/islamabad/15-May-2012/pakistan-china-have-shared-interests-in-peace-promotion-pm
.
61.
Dennis Kux,
The United States and Pakistan, 1947–2000: Disenchanted Allies
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).
62.
Harsh V. Pant, “The Pakistan Thorn in China-India-U.S. Relations,”
Washington Quarterly
35, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 83.
63.
John W. Garver, “Sino-Indian Rapprochement and the Sino-Pakistan Entente,”
Political Science Quarterly
111, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 326–33.
64.
Pant, “Pakistan Thorn,” p. 86.
65.
Ibid., p. 85.
66.
R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick, “Pakistani Nuclear Scientist Accounts Tell of Chinese Proliferation,”
Washington Post
, November 13, 2009,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/12/AR2009111211060.html
.
67.
Kaplan, “Center Stage for the 21st Century.”
68.
Ibid.
69.
John W. Garver,
China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World
(Seattle: University of Washington, 2006).
70.
Scott Harold and Alireza Nader,
China and Iran: Economic, Political, and Military Relations
(Washington, DC: RAND Corporation, 2012).
71.
John Garver, Flynt Leverett, and Hillary Mann Leverett,
Moving (Slightly) Closer to Iran: China’s Shifting Calculus for Managing Its “Persian Gulf Dilemma”
(Washington, DC: Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 2009).
72.
John Garver, “Is China Playing a Dual Game with Iran?”
Washington Quarterly
34, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 75–88; “The Iran Nuclear Issue: The View from Beijing,” Asia Briefing no. 100 (overview), International Crisis Group, February 17, 2010,
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/asia/north-east-asia/china/B100-the-iran-nuclear-issue-the-view-from-beijing.aspx
.
73.
Fallows,
China Airborne
, p. 190.
74.
James Mann,
The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power
(New York: Viking, 2012), pp. 246–47.
CONCLUSION: AMERICA, THE PIVOTAL NATION
1.
Gideon Rachman,
Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011); Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum,
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011); Edward Luce,
Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012); Robert J. Lieber,
Power and Willpower in the American Future
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
2.
Roger C. Altman and Richard N. Haass, “American Profligacy and American Power: The Consequences of Fiscal Irresponsibility,”
Foreign Affairs
, November/December 2010,
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66778/roger-c-altman-and-richard-n-haass/american-profligacy-and-american-power
. Brzezinski argues that restoring America’s position in the world must start with putting its economic house in order. Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
(New York: Basic Books, 2012), pp. 37–74.
3.
Fareed Zakaria,
The Post-American World, Release 2.0
(New York: Norton, 2011); Charles A. Kupchan,
No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
4.
Joseph Nye,
The Future of Power
(New York: Public Affairs, 2011).
5.
Leslie H. Gelb provides an instructive examination of this issue in
Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy
(New York: Harper, 2009).
6.
Robert Kagan, “Not Fade Away: The Myth of American Decline,”
New Republic
, January 11, 2012,
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/99521/america-world-power-declinism
.
7.
“Fact Sheet: ‘A Moment of Opportunity’ in the Middle East and North Africa,” press release, May 19, 2011,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/fact-sheet-moment-opportunity-middle-east-and-north-africa
.
8.
Hassan Bin Talal, “U.S. Can’t Abandon the Middle East,”
Los Angeles Times
, April 17, 2012,
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/17/opinion/la-oe-hassan-middle-east-engagement-20120417
.
9.
Vali Nasr,
Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World
(New York: Free Press, 2009), pp. 252–63.
10.
Brzezinski,
Strategic Vision
, p. 190.
11.
G. John Ikenberry,
Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011).