Given the tension and mistrust in U.S.-China ties of late, that may not be easy. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger appears on screen during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos last January. Kissinger identified in his book: that in navigating this evolving new order, “the United States can neither withdraw from the world nor dominate it.”įormer U.S. has yet to resolve the core conundrum that Mr. But the “new order” that he envisaged – messier less tractable in which influence is shared with China, a possibly “imperial” Russia, Europe, and India – is still being born.Īnd with America’s rivals and allies all watching keenly, the U.S. He wrote it after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Kissinger posed all those puzzles in his 1994 book, “Diplomacy,” which I was rereading as he was blowing out his birthday candles. president forge and sustain a cohesive foreign policy, now that the post-World War II bipartisan consensus in Washington has collapsed? That remains unresolved.Īnd, beyond dealing with inescapable crises, can any U.S.
can neither withdraw from the world nor dominate it. Henry Kissinger, 100 last weekend, posed America’s key foreign policy conundrum 30 years ago. “In the long run, you often see that systems can be repaired step by step, and that public confidence then grows again.” And in building a more perfect union, there are lessons to be learned. “In the short run, people will lose some of their trust in democracy” when former leaders are taken to court, Sam Van der Staak of the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance told the Monitor in January. Our lead story today, by Peter Grier and Noah Robertson, looks at the latest indictment in more depth.Whatever the outcome, Americans can eat a bit of humble pie. Trump is deeply divided, with many Americans saying the latest charges – and a previous, civil indictment in New York – are politically driven.
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His trial is ongoing.In the United States, opinion on Mr. Israel is another example: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced indictment, was voted out, and then returned to office. Some leaders, as in Brazil, have served time in prison for corruption, then been reelected. From France, Israel, and South Korea to Argentina and Brazil, other nations have shown that former leaders can be held to account – even sent to prison – and the country survives.No one is above the law. Trump leads polls for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 makes his indictment all the more consequential. The implications for the future of American governance could be profound.Still, Americans can take heart in the lessons of other democracies, as the Monitor explained in a magazine cover story last January. president to face federal criminal charges. The fact that Mr. A sense of exceptionalism has long infused pride in the American system and successes as the world’s oldest democracy.That self-image is taking a hit with the federal indictment of Donald Trump over alleged mishandling of classified documents, making him the first former U.S. Throughout history, American leaders have borrowed from the Bible in calling their nation a “city upon a hill” – a beacon of hope for humanity.
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