Steering the New Global Forces: United States Views of an Emergent World Order
| Published date | 01 June 1975 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207503000208 |
| Date | 01 June 1975 |
| Author | James P. Sewell |
| Subject Matter | Article |
JAMES
P.
SEWELL
Steering
the
new
global
forces:
United
States
views
of
an
emergent
world
order
According
to
Henry
Kissinger,
the
maker
of
United
States
foreign
policy
must
recognize
'the
forces
that
are
at
work
in
this
period'
and
then
decide 'where
America
and
the
world
ought
to
go.'"
Only Americans
nowadays
seem
willing
to
address
the
creation
of
world
order without
pause
or
blush;
perhaps the
challenges
of
interdependence
and
the
opportunities
of
1976
prompt
creators
to
overcome
inhibition
and
share
their
heady
conceptions.
In
any
case,
it
is
chiefly
from the
great
governmental,
near-governmental,
and
academic
institutions
of
the
United
States
that
plans
for
revised
global
architecture
appear
today.
This
short
essay
inspects
certain
proposals
to guide
or
redirect
the
unsettling
global
influences
of
our
day.
It
draws
upon
New
Forces
in
World
Politics
by
Seyom
Brown
of
The
Brookings
In-
stitution
and
The
Management
of
Interdependence
by
Miriam
Camps
of
the
Council
on
Foreign
Relations. Both
works
note
a
galaxy
of
authorities
convened
by
the
Council
on
Foreign
Rela-
tions.
Notwithstanding
their
array
of acknowledgments, these
volumes
do
not
purport
to
represent
all
'opposition'
views
-let
alone
official
views
-
on
the
proper
designs
of
United
States
foreign
policy.
Nor
does
this
essay
strive
for
comprehensiveness,
even
Professor of
Politics,
Brock
University,
St
Catharines,
and
author
of
Unesco
and
World Politics:
Engaging
in
International
Relations
(975).
The
Management
of
Interdependence,
by
Miriam
Camps
(New
York:
Council
on
Foreign
Relations,
1974,
lo4pp,
$2.50
paper).
New
Forces
in World
Politics,
by Seyom
Brown
(Washington: Brookings
Institution
[Montreal:
McGill-Queen's
University
Press],
1974,
viii,
224pp,
$2-95
paper).
Kissinger
quotations
here
and
below
are
from
the
Secretary
of State's
interview
with
James Reston, New
York
Times,
13
October
1974.
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