Rich Outzen is a senior U.S. Army advisor and a member of the State Department Policy Planning Staff. He has previously served as an instructor at the National Defense University, where he taught courses on strategy and the Middle East. He specializes in Middle Eastern political, military, and security affairs, and in the foreign policy of the US.
For a brief, heady moment in the early 1990s, the world appeared to be on the cusp of a great convergence. Having struggled through a century of World Wars and Cold Wars, the collapse of the European communism seemed to herald an era in which all countries would aspire to liberal political and economic liberalism, and during which the better-off would help the slow and unsteady to reach the goal.
For a brief, heady moment in the early 1990s, the world appeared to be on the cusp of a great convergence. Having struggled through a century of World Wars and Cold Wars,
More