This is the third installment in a debate that The Washington Note is hosting between Kishore Mahbubani and other of the world's premier intellectuals on international affairs -- including G. John Ikenberry, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Parag Khanna, Michael Lind, and others.

In response to Mahbubani's latest book, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, I attempted to trigger a debate between Mahbubani who said that the rest is going to have to come to terms with its declining role in global affairs and the fact that it will no longer have a monopoly on writing the world's history and G. John Ikenberry as well as others. Ikenberry thinks that America and the West still possess a disproportionate share of global power.

G. John Ikenberry offered his first response to Mahbubani here. Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter's response follows below -- and Mahbubani's response to both will be posted tomorrow.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

The following is a guest post by Anne-Marie Slaughter.

I will forgive Steve Clemons for trying to find a new job for one of my most valued faculty members, John Ikenberry - Steve may think he would be perfect to be the next head of the Carnegie Endowment, but we at Princeton are very happy to have him right where he is.