May 17, 2012
Managing the Successful Decline of the West
The rise of new powers has led to many uncertainties among western strategists. With an increasing number of powerful and legitimate non-western states working to shape the international order, some see the task of managing the relative decline of the West as ranking among the most pressing strategic tasks of both the U.S. and Europe.
TA Bosch Public Policy Fellow and Director of the Research Institute at the German Council on Foreign Relations, discussed how the U.S. and Europe must cooperate to successfully manage what he argues will be western decline
With an eye to the often catastrophic history surrounding the rise and fall of great powers, Professor Sandschneider analyzed the new and varied challenges which western policymakers must meet if they are to help create a peaceful, post-western world order.
