’A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order’
By Richard Haass
Penguin Press
352 pages; hardcover $28.00
This book has a lot of merit, and more. Let me start with the merit part: Though I do not subscribe to all of his offered solutions, author Richard Haass chisels a new template for a productive global political environment, something he calls World Order 2.0.
Haass’s grasp of the international scene is pragmatic and solidly anchored in experience. One can sense that years in various positions such as special assistant to President George H.W. Bush, principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell, and president of the Council on Foreign Relations, to name a few, have made him the de facto expert in foreign policy and international relations.
Penguin Press
