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The post- american world

The post- american world. Fareed zakaria. 1. choose. Choose priorities rather than trying to have it all.

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The post- american world

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  1. The post-american world Fareedzakaria

  2. 1. choose • Choose priorities rather than trying to have it all. • “Unfortunately, the most significant hurdle the U.S. faces in shaping such a policy is a domestic political climate that tends to view any concessions and accommodations as appeasement.” (236) • Ex: • In Iran, “we have insisted on policy change and regime change and we have gotten neither.” (235)

  3. 2. Build broad rules, not narrow interests • Recommit to international institutions and mechanisms. • “In an age of rising new powers, the U.S. goal…should be that even as these countries get more powerful, they will continue to live within the framework of the current international system (that the U.S. created).” (238) • “For such a system to work, we would have to adhere to these rules as well.” (239)

  4. Ex: Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty • “When the U.S. tells countries that to build a single nuclear weapon is a moral, political, and strategic abomination while maintaining an arsenal of thousands of missiles and building and testing new ones, the condemnation rings hollow.” (240)

  5. 3. Be bismarck not britain • Maintain excellent relations with everyone, rather than offset and balance emerging powers. • “’Balancing’ against a rising power would be a dangerous, destabilizing, and potentially self-fulfilling policy. Were Washington to balance against China…it would find itself isolated.” (241)

  6. 4. Order a la carte • Address problems through a variety of different structures. • “International life is only going to get messier. Being accommodating, flexible, and adaptable is likely to produce better results on the ground than insisting on a pure approach based on the notion that the only way to solve international problems is the way we have solved international problems in the past, in decades when the state was unusually strong.” (244)

  7. 5. Think asymmetrically • Respond to problems proportionately and do not respond to bait. • “The U.S. has many interests in Africa, from keeping countries stable to checking China’s influence to preventing humanitarian tragedies. But is a military command the way to go about this?” (246) • “’To the man who has a hammer,’ Mark Twain wrote, ‘every problem looks like a nail.’” (246)

  8. 6. Legitimacy is power • Legitimacy (“soft power”) creates the means to set agendas, define crises, and mobilize support. • “Nationalism in a unipolar world can often become anti-American…Americans complain that this is irrational, and that the country is unfairly turned into a punching bag. They are right. But get over it. There are many, many advantages to being a superpower. It has some costs as well. Those costs can be easily lowered by attentive diplomacy.” (249)

  9. 6. Legitimacy is power • Ex: U.S. response to 9/11 • “It’s one thing to scare your enemies; it’s another to terrify the rest of the world.” (248)

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