
The long-predicted national debate about national security policy has yet to occur. Essentially tactical issues have overwhelmed the most important challenge a new administration will confront: how to distill a new international order from three simultaneous revolutions occurring around the globe:
(a) the transformation of the traditional state system of Europe;
(b) the radical Islamist challenge to historic notions of sovereignty;
and
(c) the drift of the center of gravity of international affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
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