Delphic Podcast by Michael R D James
Aug 22, 2026 · 10 min · 7 segments
Kissinger believes in a strong America well into the 21st century and emerging powers of equal rank which include Europe. Europe was an attempt to integrate a number of different West European Nations…
Michael R. D. JamesHostBy the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century, Wilsonianism seemed triumphant.
The communist ideological and Soviet geopolitical challenges had been overcome simultaneously.
The objective of moral opposition to communism had merged with the geopolitical task of resisting Soviet expansionism.
The absence of both an overriding ideological or strategic threat frees nations to pursue policies based increasingly on their national interest.
In an international system characterized by perhaps five or six major powers and a multiplicity of smaller states, order will have to emerge much as it did in past centuries from a reconciliation and balancing of competing national interests.
Both Bush and Clinton spoke of the New World Order as if it were just around the corner.
In fact, it is still in a period of gestation and its final form will not be visible until well into the next century.
Partly an extension of the past, and partly unprecedented, the New World Order like those which it succeeds will emerge as an answer to three questions.
What are the basic units of the international order? What are their means of interacting? What are the goals on behalf of which they interact? Kissinger's book on diplomacy is one of the best works written on the subject because it implicitly acknowledges a political and ethical philosophy which is conspicuous by its absence in many other similar works.
By the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century, Wilsonianism seemed triumphant.
The communist ideological and Soviet geopolitical challenges had been overcome simultaneously.
The objective of moral opposition to communism had merged with the geopolitical task of resisting Soviet expansionism.
The absence of both an overriding ideological or strategic threat frees nations to pursue policies based increasingly on their national interest.
In an international system characterized by perhaps five or six major powers and a multiplicity of smaller states, order will have to emerge much as it did in past centuries from a reconciliation and balancing of competing national interests.
Both Bush and Clinton spoke of the New World Order as if it were just around the corner.
In fact, it is still in a period of gestation and its final form will not be visible until well into the next century.
Partly an extension of the past, and partly unprecedented, the New World Order like those which it succeeds will emerge as an answer to three questions.
What are the basic units of the international order? What are their means of interacting? What are the goals on behalf of which they interact? Kissinger's book on diplomacy is one of the best works written on the subject because it implicitly acknowledges a political and ethical philosophy which is conspicuous by its absence in many other similar works.
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