...face in the 21st century are new. Never has the world experienced such a combination of global growth and environmental decline, technological change and dwindling global resources, the emergence of new great powers and of existential asymmetric security challenges. Globalization has eroded the significance of national boundaries: Many of the greatest challenges that face us--from jihadism to nuclear proliferation to global warming--do not face only us. Urgent problems that once were national are now global, and dangers that once came only from states now come also from transnational mafias and extremist social movements--as well as from social trends, such as our excessive consumption of fossil fuels. The problems...

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