The US may not be as powerful as it was in the decade after winning the Cold War in the 1990s, but its global leadership role remains indispensable now and for the foreseeable future, particularly in delivering what one foreign policy expert calls the “global public good”.Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s rising overtures in the South China Sea, as well as the turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa, may indicate growing ineffectiveness of US leadership, but panelists at a conference here say the fight against the Ebola outbreak in Africa and the quick disaster relief operations after …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
