America’s role in a turbulent world (Bruce Jones, Brookings)

We live in a moment of global uncertainty and American self-doubt. As confidence in the Western order and its American backing have waned, hope for a benign multi-polar order has shown to be hollow. We face a choice. We could stay home in splendid isolation, in the belief that our economy will thrive, and terror will avoid us, and great power tensions in Asia and Europe won’t disrupt the global economy or pull us in, or threaten our way of life. We could do so, but it would be the height of foolishness. We would be willing walls of sand around both the economy and our security. If you think hope isn’t a strategy, try denial.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/americas-role-in-a-turbulent-world/

China’s G-20 presidency: Where geopolitics meets global governance (Bruce Jones, Brookings)

For the past several years, international affairs have been analyzed through two lenses. One lens has focused on geopolitics: in particular, the question of how great power relations are evolving at a time of redistribution in the world’s economic and now also political power. The second lens considers the framework of global governance, especially the question of whether or not the existing formal and informal institutions have the tools and the ability to manage complex global challenges.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/04/12-china-g20-geopolitics-jones

The rising powers: A mixed bag for the international order (Bruce Jones, Brookings)

When did we move from optimism to pessimism about the BRICS—and more specifically, about the sub-set of rising powers that are democracies?

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/02/19-democratic-rising-powers-jones

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) ‘The Last Mile’: Laying the political and security foundations first for peace, then development (Bruce Jones, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/07/28-peace-development-last-mile-jones