Geoffrey Kemp

This book advocates a centrist policy and argues that Unite States must continue to confront Iran on the key issues of concern and work more closely with European allies or find a common policy toward the Islamic regime.

American Policy & the Islamic Republic of Iran

Forever Enemies?

Raimund Bleischwitz

Stacy D. VanDeveer

Tim Boersma

Corey Johnson

Philip Andrews-Speed

In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world’s largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns. The nexus approach, conceptualized as attention to resource connections and their governance ramifications, calls attention to the sustainability of contemporary consumer resource use, lifestyles and supply chains. This book sets out an analytical framework for understanding these nexus issues and the related governance challenges and opportunities. It sheds light on the resource nexus in three realms: markets, interstate relations and local human security. These three realms are the organizing principle of three chapters, before the analysis turns to crosscutting case studies including shale gas, migration, lifestyle changes and resource efficiency, nitrogen fertilizer and food systems, water and the Nile Basin, climate change and security and defense spending. The key issues revolve around competition and conflict over finite natural resources. The authors highlight opportunities to improve both the understanding of nexus challenges and their governance. They critically discuss a global governance approach versus polycentric and multilevel approaches and the lack of those dimensions in many theories of international relations.

The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals

Want, Waste or War?

Carnegie Endowment Study Group On US-Indian Relations in a C

Carnegie Endowment Study Group on U.S.-Indian Relations in a Changing International Environment

Selig S. Harrison

Geoffrey T. Kemp

Senior Associate Selig S Harrison

Dotation Carnegie pour la paix internationale

Under the leadership of two former U.S. Ambassadors to India, Harry G. Barnes, Jr. and Robert Goheen, the Carnegie Endowment Study Group presents recommendations to both governments on a wide range of issues. These cover nuclear and missile proliferation, South Asian arms control, U.S.-Indian military cooperation, trade and investment, the Kashmir dispute, and human rights abuses. ISBN 0-87003-028-0 (pbk.): $8.95.

Report of the Carnegie Endowment Study Group on U.S.-India Relations in a Changing International Environment

India & America After the Cold War

While traditionally powerful Western economies are treading water at best, beset by crises in banking, housing, and employment, industrial growth and economic development are exploding in China and India. The world's two most populous nations are the biggest reasons for Asia's growing footprint on other global regions. The increasing size and impact of that footprint are especially important in the Middle East, an economic, religious, and geopolitical linchpin. The East Moves West details the growing interdependence of the Middle East and Asia and projects the likely ramifications of this evolving relationship. It also examines the role of Pakistan, Japan, and South Korea in the region. Geoffrey Kemp, a longtime analyst of global security and political economy, compares and contrasts Indian and Chinese involvement in the Middle East. He stresses an embedded historical dimension that gives India substantially more familiarity and interest in the region—India was there first, and it has maintained that head start. Both nations, however, are clearly on the rise and leaving an indelible mark on the Middle East, and that enhanced influence has international ramifications for the United States and throughout the world. Does the emergence of these Asian giants—with their increasingly huge need for energy—strengthen the case for cooperative security, particularly in the maritime arena? After all, safe and open sea-lanes remain an essential component of mutually beneficial intercontinental trade, making India and China increasingly dependent on safe passage of oil tankers. Or will we see reversion to more traditional competition and even conflict, given that the major Asian powers themselves have so many unresolved problems and that the future of the U.S. presence in the area is uncertain. Kemp believes the United States will remain the dominant military power in the region but will have to share some security responsibilities with the Asians, especially in the Indian Ocean.

India, China, and Asia's Growing Presence in the Middle East

The East Moves West

Geoffrey Kemp

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