François Delattre, NY Times- My experience at the United Nations
Security Council over the last five years has led me to see a harsh
truth: The world is growing more dangerous and less predictable by the
day. While the tectonic plates of power are shifting under our feet,
driven in no small part by the combined effects of a technology
revolution and the rise of China, we are also witnessing the return of
heightened competition among the major powers.
We
are now in a new world disorder. The three main safety mechanisms are
no longer functioning: no more American power willing to be the
last-resort enforcer of international order; no solid system of
international governance; and, most troubling, no real concert of
nations able to re-establish common ground.
As
I prepare to return to Paris after almost 20 years as a diplomat in
North America, nearly half of them serving consecutively as France’s
ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations, I feel the
need to share these personal conclusions. The situation today is
objectively dangerous. Each serious international crisis has the
potential to spin out of control.
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