Hillary Clinton's Review of 'World Order' by Henry Kissinger
Hillary Rodham Clinton was the 67th secretary of state.
When
Americans look around the world today, we see one crisis after another.
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. It’s no wonder so many
Americans express uncertainty and even fear about our role and our
future in the world.
In his new book, “World Order,” Henry
Kissinger explains the historic scope of this challenge. 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.
During 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. 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.”
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