{"id":15821,"date":"2022-09-16T14:45:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=15821"},"modified":"2022-09-16T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:45:26","slug":"the-dangerous-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/the-dangerous-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangerous Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"episode-header__summary\">\n<h2 class=\"f-serif ls-0 article-subtitle \">A Foreign Policy for a World in Crisis<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThere are decades where nothing happens, and there are\u00a0weeks where decades happen.\u201d\u00a0Those\u00a0words are apocryphally\u00a0attributed to the Bolshevik revolutionary (and\u00a0<em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>reader) Vladimir Lenin, referring to the rapid collapse of tsarist Russia just over 100 years ago. If he had actually said those words, Lenin might have added that there are also decades when centuries\u00a0happen.<\/p>\n<p>The world is in the midst of one such decade. As with other historical hinges, the danger today stems from a sharp decline in world order. But more than at any other recent moment, that decline threatens to become especially steep, owing to a confluence of old and new threats that have begun to intersect at a moment the United States is ill positioned to contend with them.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, the world is witnessing the revival of some of the\u00a0worst\u00a0aspects\u00a0of\u00a0traditional\u00a0geopolitics:\u00a0great-power\u00a0competition,\u00a0imperial\u00a0ambitions,\u00a0fights\u00a0over\u00a0resources.\u00a0Today,\u00a0Russia\u00a0is\u00a0headed\u00a0by\u00a0a\u00a0tyrant,\u00a0President\u00a0Vladimir Putin, who longs to re-create a Russian sphere of influence and perhaps even a Russian empire. Putin is willing to do almost anything to achieve that goal, and he is able to act as he pleases because\u00a0internal\u00a0constraints\u00a0on\u00a0his\u00a0regime\u00a0have\u00a0mostly\u00a0disappeared.\u00a0Meanwhile, under\u00a0President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/china\/what-expect-bolder-xi-jinping\">Xi\u00a0<\/a>Jinping,\u00a0China\u00a0has\u00a0embarked\u00a0on\u00a0a\u00a0quest\u00a0for\u00a0regional and\u00a0potentially\u00a0global\u00a0primacy,\u00a0putting\u00a0itself\u00a0on\u00a0a\u00a0trajectory\u00a0that\u00a0will\u00a0lead\u00a0to increased competition or even confrontation with the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the entire article on the website of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/dangerous-decade-foreign-policy-world-crisis-richard-haass\">Foreign Affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Foreign Policy for a World in Crisis \u201cThere are decades where nothing happens, and there are\u00a0weeks where decades happen.\u201d\u00a0Those\u00a0words are apocryphally\u00a0attributed to the Bolshevik revolutionary (and\u00a0Foreign Affairsreader) Vladimir Lenin,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-15821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-room","tag-153"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}