Sublime

Today, potential enemies proliferate not because of anything the United States does but because of who the United States is. This changes not only U.S. foreign policy but the institutional structure of the United States. The entire world is a potential antagonist and requires constant management.

Sovereign states and their governments are not the only pieces on the chessboard in the international system. There are also corporations, nongovernmental organizations such as Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, and Greenpeace, foundations, members of the media, religious authorities, governors and mayors, and regional and global organ

It is actually not a question of size, because the government must naturally be large to oversee a highly complex nation. The problem is over-complexity and convolution, with subgroups of experts who do not cooperate, trust each other, or work well together.

The other problem is entanglement, multiple federal agencies engaged in managing parts of the same problem.

Regional organizations have made little contribution to stability or prosperity in this part of the world. The Arab League, founded in 1945 and now numbering twenty-two Arab countries, has largely ignored internal issues that have held back most of its members and focused instead on maintaining a confrontational, united front against Israel or, mor