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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Richard Haas, ‘The Age of Non-polarity’, Foreign Affairs (Vol. 87, No. 3, May/June 2008), p. 45. 2. Fareed Zakaria, ‘The Future of American Power’, Foreign Affairs (Vol. 87, No. 3, May/June 2008), p. 40. 3. John McCain, ‘An Enduring Peace Built on Freedom’, Foreign Affairs (Vol. 86, No. 6, November/December 2007), pp. 19-35. 4. Ivo Daalder and James Goldgeier, ‘Global NATO’, Foreign Affairs (Vol. 85, No. 5, September/October 2006), pp 105-112. 5. Mikkel Rasmussen, The Risk Society At War: Terror, Technology and Strategy in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 6. P J O'Rourke, Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism (London: Picador, 2005), p. 26. 7. Cited by John Kampfner, Blair's Wars (London: Free Press, 2003) p 3. 8. The Economist, 2 June 2007. 9. Alex De Waal, ‘Against Gunboat Philanthropy’, Prospect, June 2008, p 19. 10. Niall Ferguson, War of the World: History's Age of Hatred (London: Allen Lane, 2006). 11. Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000) p xix. 12. Mark Leonard, What Does China Think? (London: Fourth Estate, 2008). 13. Henry Porter, ‘The New World Order That Threatens Uncle Sam’, The Observer, 23 December 2007. 14. Dimitri Trenin, ‘Russia Leaves the West’, Foreign Affairs (Vol. 84, No. 4, July/August 2006), p 87. 15. M K Bhadrakumar, ‘The Great Game on a Razor's Edge – The Stakes Go Up In Central Asia’, Asia Times Online, 23 December 2006, < http://www.atimes.com/atimes/central_asia/hl23ag01.html> accessed 5 May 2007. 16. Ramakant Dwivedi, ‘China's Central Asia Policy in Recent Times’, China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly (Vol. 4, No. 4, 2006), pp.139-152. 17. Bates Gill, ‘China's Evolving Regional Security Strategy’ in David Shambaugh, Powershift –China and Asia's New Dynamics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). 18. Andrzej Zwaniecki, ‘IMF Governance Reform Aims at Fairer Multilateral Organization’, The Washington File, 12 September 2006, < http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2006/September/20060912132016SAikceinawz0.2876856.html >. 19. Daniel Drezner, ‘The New World Order’, Foreign Affairs (Vol. 86, No. 2, March/April 2007), p 43. 20. Hugh Williamson, ‘Great Powers Try To Keep It Casual’, The Financial Times, Sunday 3 June, 2007. 21. For Ann Lindberg see John Lukas, The Last European War (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976), Kishore Mahbubani, ‘The Case Against the West’, Foreign Affairs (Vol. 87, No. 3, May/June 2008), p. 111. 22. Lex Rieffel, ‘Why the new President Should Care About the World Bank and the IMF’, The Brookings Institution Research, 19 October 2007, <www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/1019-multilateral-development-banks.aspx>. 23. Jack Gallagher/John Robinson, Africa and the Victorians: the Official Mind of Imperialism, (London: Macmillan, 1972), p 470. 24. Zakaria, op cit, p. 43. 25. Mark Leonard, Why Europe will run the Twenty-First Century, (London: Fourth Estate, 2006). 26. See Andrew Bacevich, 'Illusions of managing history: the enduring relevance of Reinhold Niebuhr’, Historically Speaking (Vol. 9, No. 3 January/February 2008), pp. 23-27. 27. Dean Acheson, ‘Real and Imagined Handicaps of our Democracy in the Conduct of Foreign Affairs’, Speech given at the HSTL, 31 March 1962. Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristopher Coker Christopher Coker is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. He is the author of The Twilight of the West and, Ethics and War in the 21st Century

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