While the United States has blew a global foreign policy retreat in recent years, three authoritarian states — Russia, Iran, and China — in the band from the Baltic to the South China Sea are increasingly confidently trying to revive their former empire. As the three emerging powers regained their old glory, they turned to the allies of the United States, located on the border of the American sphere of influence.
A book by Jakub Grygiel and Wess Mitchell interpreting recent foreign policy developments, including the Russian acquisition of Crimea from a new perspective, arguing that rising, revisionist powers are putting pressure on border countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Poland or Hungary. that America is indeed in decline, so it is not making a meaningful response, and the Allies, disappointed in the former superpower, are beginning to approach their emerging neighbors.
The troubled border region is voting in favor of the need for a new, comprehensive, active U.S. foreign policy strategy. Along with a strategy that, with its network of Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and East Asian allies, alerts emerging powers from aggression and does not succumb to the self-fulfilling prophecy of a new, multipolar world order.