By Hal Brands & Eric Edelman, The National Interest: ““THE ESSENCE of a revolution is that it appears to contemporaries as a series of more or less unrelated upheavals,” Henry Kissinger wrote in 1969. “But the crises which form the headlines of the day are symptoms of deep-seated structural problems.” Kissinger wrote this passage as the postwar international system was coming under unprecedented strain, with profound shifts in the global distribution of power driving incessant disruptions in U.S. foreign policy. His admonition applies just as well today, at the onset of a new era of upheaval.”
America and the Geopolitics of Upheaval
By Hal Brands & Eric Edelman, The National Interest: ““THE ESSENCE of a revolution is that it appears to contemporaries as a series of more or less unrelated upheavals,” Henry Kissinger wrote in 1969. “But the crises which form the headlines of the day are symptoms of deep-seated structural problems.” Kissinger wrote this passage as the postwar international system was coming under unprecedented strain, with profound shifts in the global distribution of power driving incessant disruptions in U.S. foreign policy. His admonition applies just as well today, at the onset of a new era of upheaval.”
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Putin's Neo-Imperialism: Russia's Shift to Hard Power
By Paul Goble, Eurasia Daily Monitor: “The aggressiveness Moscow has shown in its relations with countries in the former Soviet space reflects Russia’s loss of influence via “soft” power channels. At the same time, the Kremlin’s demonstrated bellicosity simply exacerbates that loss. Consequently, if President Vladimir Putin is going to rebuild Russia’s sway over the region, as he hopes, he will increasingly have to rely on “hard” power, including military and economic pressure..” Towards an American Realpolitik: Jacksonian-Jeffersonian Grand Strategy
By Mauni Michael Jalali, Strategy Bridge: “The post-enlightenment epoch has been the wellspring of grand ambitions for the liberal and democratic states of the West. Seemingly unabated by the failures of Wilsonianism, the collapse of the League of Nations, or the Great Wars, the West did not cease its “restless search for a new way of securing order and peace.” Walter Lippmann, a New Republic intellectual, pronounced in 1915 that America had a stark choice before her, “[either] being the passive victim of international disorder [or] resolving to be an active leader in ending it.” Indeed, America would eventually proceed as the Don Quixote of international affairs, seemingly undoing wrongs and bringing justice to a world fraught with tyranny. However, deeply embedded within the fabric of American political life are conflicting traditions of political thought." |
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