Meanwhile, the People’s Republic of China poses the most significant long-term challenge because it not only aspires to reshape the international order, it increasingly has the economic, the diplomatic, the military, the technological power to do just that.Īnd Beijing and Moscow are working together to make the world safe for autocracy through their “no limits partnership.”Īs this competition ramps up, many countries are hedging their bets. Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine is the most immediate, the most acute threat to the international order enshrined in the UN charter and its core principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence for nations, and universal indivisible human rights for individuals. But there is a growing recognition that several of the core assumptions that shaped our approach to the post-Cold War era no longer hold.ĭecades of relative geopolitical stability have given way to an intensifying competition with authoritarian powers, revisionist powers. And what brought us to this moment will be the subject of study and debate for decades to come. And there were serious challenges to the order – the wars in the former Yugoslavia the genocide in Rwanda 9/11 and the Iraq War the 2008 global financial crisis Syria the COVID pandemic – to name a few.īut what we’re experiencing now is more than a test of the post-Cold War order. Now, not everyone benefitted equally from the extraordinary gains of this period. Deadly diseases diminished – even eradicated. Historic lows in conflicts between states. More than a billion people lifted from poverty. The end of the Cold War brought with it the promise of an inexorable march toward greater peace and stability, international cooperation, economic interdependence, political liberalization, human rights.Īnd indeed, the post-Cold War era ushered in remarkable progress. The international landscape that all of you are studying is profoundly different from the one that I encountered when I started out in government 30 years ago alongside Mr. Today, what I want to do is set out the Biden administration’s answer to that profound and vital question. Now we find ourselves at another hinge moment in history – grappling with the fundamental question of strategy, as Nitze defined it: “How do we get from where we are to where we want to be, without being struck by disaster along the way?”
SAIS graduates have been fulfilling that promise ever since. The old order was in ruins, and Nitze and Herter believed that this institution should play an integral role in building a new order. It’s people who infuse them with ideas and purpose.īack then, the world was reeling from the Second World War. As Jim mentioned, I had the experience of working in the original housing for SAIS – also the profound, distinct honor of temporarily occupying the office that Paul Nitze once inhabited.īut as Nitze and Herter both knew, buildings – from the humblest to the grandest – are just that: buildings. An old basketball court served as SAIS’s first library. They settled on a decaying mansion on Florida Avenue – (laughter) – that had once been home to a girls’ school. So eighty years ago, when Paul Nitze came together with then-Congressman Chris Herter to create this institution, they set about finding a place to house it. Brzezinski also believed that one of his most enduring contributions to international affairs was shaping America’s rising scholars and practitioners – including President Carter, who described himself as “an eager student” of Zbig and Ian, Mark, Mika – all of whom have strived to bring us closer to what Zbig called the pragmatic fusion of American power with American principle. Jim has contributed so much over his remarkable career, but his most lasting contribution is the generation of thinkers, the generation of doers that he’s educated, that he’s mentored, that he’s inspired. SECRETARY BLINKEN: Dean Steinberg, Jim, thank you for the honor of joining the SAIS community to help inaugurate this truly magnificent new home. Blinken Remarks to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) “The
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