er with rogue nuclear weapons or box-cutters, pose unremitting menace (10-14) and that American democracy cannot long stomach a semi-imperial role with an enlarged partnership.
Globalization multiplies opportunities and dangers, and even an American superpower cannot afford to police the world alone. Greater integration, meaning greater joint action by powerful states, Haass argues, would enable them to set and enforce "rules" for international behavior. Pointedly, Haass does not even mention the United Nations. What he has in mind is a concert of major powers, including Russia, China, and a more active Japan, to preserve order:
History, then, is determined largely by the degree to which the major powers of the era can agree on the rules of the roadùand impose them on those who reject them. (16)
The United States must try anew to persuade noncooperative nations, which have shunned the Iraq mission, they that cannot continue a kind of isolationism in an era of terrorism, nuclear bombs, and rogue forces. The fund
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