UNTENDED GARDEN (INTERVIEW WITH ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER)
The rift between China and the West is the most urgent foreign policy problem.
Lily Huang
Newsweek, May 1, 2008
Fewer than 100 days before China's Olympics, a growing sense of mistrust between East and West threatens to overshadow the event. While protesters challenge China's policies at home and abroad, the Chinese feel misunderstood. Crossing this gulf is foreign policy scholar Anne-Marie Slaughter's current occupation. Slaughter, on sabbatical from being dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is spending a year in Shanghai and traveling throughout Asia. Her nuanced, forward-looking sense of the world has already shifted old paradigms: her 2004 book, "A New World Order," described the high-functioning informal networks that undergird global governance in the 21st century. She spoke with NEWSWEEK's Lily Huang by phone about the challenges of foreign policy. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: Where is the biggest challenge for American foreign policy: the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Africa?
The rift between China and the West is the most urgent foreign policy problem.
Lily Huang
Newsweek, May 1, 2008
Fewer than 100 days before China's Olympics, a growing sense of mistrust between East and West threatens to overshadow the event. While protesters challenge China's policies at home and abroad, the Chinese feel misunderstood. Crossing this gulf is foreign policy scholar Anne-Marie Slaughter's current occupation. Slaughter, on sabbatical from being dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is spending a year in Shanghai and traveling throughout Asia. Her nuanced, forward-looking sense of the world has already shifted old paradigms: her 2004 book, "A New World Order," described the high-functioning informal networks that undergird global governance in the 21st century. She spoke with NEWSWEEK's Lily Huang by phone about the challenges of foreign policy. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: Where is the biggest challenge for American foreign policy: the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Africa?
Anne-Marie Slaughter: I think the biggest overall challenge is managing the rise of Asia in a way that harnesses the benefits and avoids potential conflicts and major disruptions—to global institutions, global financial stability and/or local conflicts that could drag others down. Taiwan, obviously, is one big example, but also Tibet, where the combination of domestic political pressures and external events can suddenly present leaders with situations that could get out of hand if they're not very carefully handled. This is a very complicated, very big part of the world. There's a tremendous amount happening, and right now our bandwidth is taken up almost entirely by Iraq, with a little left over for the Middle East generally and a bit for North Korea. There's a lot of untended garden over here.
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