A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

by Richard N. Haass

But history is always more than just the narrative of consensus; it is also at least as much a narrative of disagreement and friction.

As President John F. Kennedy once warned, “There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

“Washington doesn’t have a crisis of leadership; it has a crisis of followership.”