Kissinger’s summary of that vision sounds pertinent today: “an inexorably expanding cooperative order of states observing common rules and norms, embracing liberal economic systems, forswearing territorial conquest, respecting national sovereignty, and adopting participatory and democratic systems of governance.” His analysis, despite some differences over specific policies, largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administration’s effort over the past six years to build a global architecture of security and cooperation for the 21st century.ĭuring the Cold War, America’s bipartisan commitment to protecting and expanding a community of nations devoted to freedom, market economies and cooperation eventually proved successful for us and the world. In his new book, “World Order,” Henry Kissinger explains the historic scope of this challenge. It’s no wonder so many Americans express uncertainty and even fear about our role and our future in the world. Russian aggression in Ukraine, extremism and chaos in Iraq and Syria, a deadly epidemic in West Africa, escalating territorial tensions in the East and South China seas, a global economy that still isn’t producing enough growth or shared prosperity - the liberal international order that the United States has worked for generations to build and defend seems to be under pressure from every quarter. When Americans look around the world today, we see one crisis after another.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the 67th secretary of state.

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