When the US shrinks from the stage, things fall apart
In February, Jason Pack’s article ‘When the US shrinks from the stage, things fall apart’ was published in The Boston Globe. ‘From Ukraine to the Middle East and Taiwan, the world requires bipartisan American leadership that’s gone out of fashion…instead of conceiving of Ukraine, Libya, or Syria as exotic, far-away conflict zones disconnected from Americans’ daily life, what if we looked at them as the result of America’s abrupt withdrawal from its empire and the ever-increasing virulence of domestic American partisanship? These interconnections are all part of what I term the era of global enduring disorder, in which America’s hegemonic global leadership has been replaced by collective action failure among the Western allies and a desire by key players like Russia and China to promote disorder rather than alternative forms of order’…
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