'Tension and even warfare are likely when a new power emerges and an old power is challenged. The achievement of Amrita Narlikar is to bring analytical rigour to the recent emergence of India, China and Brazil, and her insights are equally applicable to the historical past, to the emergence of Britain or Germany or the United States, as to the present. She steers a deft course between the large-scale issues of the shifting balance of power and the details of negotiating style which were so important in mediating the interests of established and new powers.'

Martin Daunton, Professor of Economic History and Master of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

'Amrita Narlikar's impressive book goes beyond speculation about the intentions of New Powers to a detailed analysis about their international behaviour. New Powers shows in what policy arenas and to what degree global power is shifting.'

Andrew F. Cooper, Coeditor, Rising States, Rising Institutions: Challenges for Global Governance '

'In her short but impressively rich and well written book Amrita Narlikar presents clearly argued analyses of the negotiation behaviour of three large countries aspiring to become great powers of the world. New Powers offers an important contribution to the understanding of a changing world together with well-founded advice for the negotiators of both new and established powers.'

Dr. Hilmar Rommetvedt, Head of Research at the International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS), Norway