John M. Owen IV is Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.
Cosmopolitan liberalism has reshaped international institutions and practices.
Today the threat against liberalism is one of atrophy rather than violent death.
According to the realists, power is real, and all else is illusion.
“In very broad terms, we have a vision of the kind of world we want, but we’ve never had a national conversation about it.”
The war has ruined any chance of Russo-Western cooperation any time soon; whatever hope the Biden administration has had of peeling Russia away from China lies in tatters.