Anonymous ID: e1a2c6 Dec. 20, 2018, 1:24 p.m. No.4396391   🗄️.is đź”—kun

David J. Kramer

 

"Twenty-five years later, it is clear history is not over, even in the Hegelian sense, and liberal democracy has not been universalized. Euphoria has given way to anxiety. The world, if not necessarily more dangerous than it was during the Cold War, is surely more chaotic and diffusely complex. The scale of global disorder is staggering. In the Middle East alone we behold the continuing threat from al-Qaeda and the rise of the Islamic State; the dissolution of states such as Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen; the regional rise of Iran as a nuclear-threshold state and, with it, the specter of nuclear weapons proliferating far and wide. Nor is the rest of the world any calmer, with Russian aggression in Ukraine and Chinese expansionism in the maritime domains of East Asia. Cyber threats have mushroomed and grown global in scale, and, thanks to the current U.S. Administration’s policies, the alliance system designed to preserve order and peace has been weakened.

 

As one might expect, foreign policy is rising on the list of priorities and concerns for the American people. A Pew Research Center poll from earlier this year shows that, for the first time in five years, as many Americans cite defending the United States against terrorism (76 percent) as a top policy priority as say that about strengthening the nation’s economy (75 percent). An internal Republican survey in March found that security issues ranked first on a list of top priorities for voters, ahead of economic growth, fiscal responsibility, and moral issues, among others. Foreign policy will almost certainly be an important, perhaps even dominant, issue in the 2016 presidential race."

 

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