![]() ![]() A nation founded explicitly on an idea of free and representative governance, the U.S. In the decades following World War II, the U.S.-strengthened in its economy and national confidence-began to take up the torch of international leadership and added a new dimension. The search for world order has long been defined almost exclusively by the concepts of Western societies. The concept of order that has underpinned the modern era is in crisis. ![]() To these troubles are added a resurgence of tensions with Russia and a relationship with China divided between pledges of cooperation and public recrimination. Libya is in civil war, fundamentalist armies are building a self-declared caliphate across Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan's young democracy is on the verge of paralysis. ![]()
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