Don’t Give Up on Global Order: America Depends on It—and Can Restore It

[Excerpt from Philip H. Gordon, Sydney Stein, Jr., Scholar at the Brookings Institution and Frank E. and Arthur Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University. He served as National Security Adviser to the Vice President in the Biden administration and as White House Coordinator for the Middle East in the Obama administration.] Americans these days agree on very little about politics and international relations. But there is a growing consensus around two fundamental points. One is that the