Huffington Post op/ed by Rhianna Tyson Kreger and Jonathan Granoff
To many if not most, the present turmoil in the world is evidence of a world gone chaotic: the downed Malaysian airliners, the horrific consequences of increased militarization in Israel and Palestine, instability in Egypt, the steady ruination of Syria, the disintegration of Iraq, to say nothing of ongoing tragedies of poverty and unchecked climate change. This chaos evidences the precariousness of the current world order and how dangerous it is to try to keep order primarily through old means: namely, the concept of strategic stability, ultimately underwritten by massive arsenals of nuclear weapons.
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Jonathan Granoff is the President of the Global Security Institute, a representative to United Nations of the World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates, a former Adjunct Professor of International Law at Widener University School of Law, and Senior Advisor to the Committee on National Security American Bar Association International Law Section.