The impending demise of the postwar system
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10802379 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kishore Mahbubani (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 7-18 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Survival (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-6338 • E-ISSN: 1468-2699 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00396330500433225 |
| OpenAlex | W2029275903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The benign American world order launched by President Harry Truman in 1945 has contributed enormously to humankind, yet is likely to die in our lifetime. America and the West are neglecting it just as new challenges and new powers emerge. Alternative visions of the international system are abundant, from China's to the American neo-conservatives' to Osama bin Laden's. The vision behind the Truman world order remains the most powerful, and can still be salvaged. But the United States, as in 1945, must provide leadership and develop a new contract between America and the world. The principles for saving the postwar system are not difficult to find; the real challenge is to get America to abide by them. Notes 1. Stephen M. Walt, 'Taming American Power', Foreign Affairs, September–October 2005, p. 107. 2. Ibid. 3. Charles Krauthammer, 'Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World', 2004 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute Annual Dinner, 10 February 2004, http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.19912,filter.all/pub_detail.asp. 4. Martin Wolf, 'US Must Worry about its Own Actions', Financial Times, 27 September 2005. 5. Steven R. Weisman, 'U.S. to Broaden India's Access to Nuclear Power Technology', New York Times, 19 July 2005, p. A1. 6. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 1971). Additional informationNotes on contributorsKishore Mahbubani Kishore Mahbubani is the Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in the National University of Singapore and author of Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World and Can Asians Think
China · Demise · Democracy · Economic history · Economic Justice · Economics · Foreign policy · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Vision · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2018 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |