Challenging Disorder
In recent years, it has become fashionable to claim that challenges like Russian aggression and violent extremism signify that the international system is somehow unraveling. But all the evidence points to the opposite conclusion: the future still belongs to the universal values of civility, reason, and the rule of law.
MUNICH – A few years after World War II, when the North Atlantic Treaty was ratified in the United States and our relationship with Europe was cemented, President Harry Truman said simply, “The more closely the nations of the Atlantic community can work together for peace, the better for all people, everywhere.”