Geopolitics

The post-WWII order is crumbling and small countries need to respond — but the hardest part isn't knowing what to do, it's that the problem demands exactly the kind of sustained, boring, comprehensive investment that democratic systems are worst at.

Kissinger defined a revolutionary power as one that rejects the legitimacy of the order it inhabits — then spent his career building America's. What happens when his framework fits its own architect?