Editor's Note: This post is the third in a series by Kim R. Holmes taking a "new look" at American foreign policy. It is based on ideas developed in his forthcoming book, Rebound: Getting America Back to Great, which will be published this fall. The author is a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former U.S. assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs.
The United Nations continues its slow decline as a force on the world stage and will go the same way as the League of Nation sunless it is radically reformed and restructured.
Clinton must deal with Russian economic troubles, Iraqi intransigence, China-Taiwan tentions, North Korean missiles, and global terrorism and ecnomic chaos.