Is There a World Without Anarchy?

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We have a society of states, a couple of hundred of them, and they've given up the idea of using war to deal with each other. It may be that anarchy will actually work there. If you want to get out of the united nations, like indanesia did one time, you can do it. I'm perfectly happy to see him goneah, but there's no real again, exaggerating the threat for various reasons,. some understandable, some not so understandable.

In this conversation based on his new book, The Stupidity of War, political scientist John Mueller argues that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats — including during the Cold War — have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. With international war in decline, complacency and appeasement become viable diplomatic devices and a large military is scarcely required.