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Shultz, and Ted Halstead A Foreign Policy for the Climate 39 How American Leadership Can Avert Catastrophe John Podesta and Todd Stern The Unlikely Environmentalists 47 How the Private Sector Can Combat Climate Change Rebecca Henderson Building a Resilient Planet 54 COVER: BRIAN COVER: How to Adapt to Climate Change From the Bottom Up Kathy Baughman McLeod STAUFFER The Climate Debt 60 What the West Owes the Rest Mohamed Adow May/June 2020 02_TOC2_Blues.indd 1 3/23/20 4:14 PM ESSAYS The Comeback Nation 70 U.S. Economic Supremacy Has Repeatedly Proved Declinists Wrong Ruchir Sharma China’s Coming Upheaval 82 Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness o Xi Jinping Minxin Pei What Kim Wants 96 The Hopes and Fears o North Korea’s Dictator Jung H. Pak The End of Grand Strategy 107 America Must Think Small Daniel W. Drezner, Ronald R. Krebs, and Randall Schweller Britain Adrift 118 The United Kingdom’s Search for a Post-Brexit Role Lawrence D. Freedman The Next Iranian Revolution 131 Why Washington Should Seek Regime Change in Tehran Eric Edelman and Ray Takeyh Making Cyberspace Safe for Democracy 146 The New Landscape o Information Competition Laura Rosenberger The Right Way to Fix the EU 160 Put Politics Before Economics Matthias Matthijs ON FOREIGNAFFAIRS.COM Yanzhong Huang on Lisa Monaco on Timothy Naftali on coronavirus conspiracy pandemics and impeachment and U.S. theories. national security. foreign policy. May/June 2020 02_TOC2_Blues.indd 3 3/23/20 4:15 PM A Sustainable Future uman survival is predicated on our ability to create long-term Hsustainability and mitigate the effects of climate change. Experts predicted in 2018 that a major global city—Cape Town, South Africa—was on the brink of running out of fresh water. While heavy rains ultimately filled reservoirs and a crisis was averted, Cape Town remains vulnerable. 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In “The Climate Club” (page 10), Nordhaus explains why the global ght against climate change is failing—and lays out a vision o how to make international climate agreements work. MOHAMED ADOW has spent almost two decades ghting climate change across Africa. As a member o the relie agency Christian Aid from 2008 to 2019, he consulted for African governments on international climate agreements, disaster risk reduction, and drought management. Today, he continues that work as the founding director o the think tank Power Shift Africa. In “The Climate Debt” (page 60), Adow argues that when it comes to climate change, the West owes the rest. Ever since RUCHIR SHARMA graduated college in New Delhi, at the age o 20, he has balanced a career in nance with his work as an author and columnist, writing several books and frequent articles on emerging markets, global economic trends, and Indian politics, among other topics. In “The Comeback Nation” (page 70), Sharma, currently the head o emerging markets and chie global strategist at Morgan Stanley, argues that despite a widespread narrative o U.S. decline, the 2010s were in fact a golden decade for the United States. As a doctoral student at Columbia, JUNG PAK set out to study U.S. history. Instead, she became a leading authority on North Korea, spending almost ten years analyzing the shadowy regime as a senior ocial at the CIA and the National Intelligence Council—experience she draws on in her new book, Becoming Kim Jong Un. In “What Kim Wants” (page 96), Pak, now the SK-Korea Foundation chair in Korea studies at Brookings, argues that Washington and its allies should focus less on making the North Korean dictator feel secure and more on changing his risk calculus. 02_TOC2_Blues.indd 7 3/23/20 4:15 PM THE FIRE NEXT TIME rofessionals warn and plan, ama- technologies could limit future tem- teurs sco and ignore them, and by perature increases, argues a team o P the time a crisis arrives, it’s too top researchers. late to do more than react and suer. Washington should see climate Nothing about this story is novel; the change not only as an environmental °-19 pandemic is only the latest in risk but also as a strategic opportunity, a long series o unnecessary catastrophes. suggest two former Republican secre- We can’t go back now and regain those taries o state, James Baker and George precious early months during the winter, Shultz, with Ted Halstead, and capitalize using them to aggressively test and on the early U.S. lead in green technol- quarantine and contain the outbreak. We ogy. John Podesta and Todd Stern, who can’t retrospectively conjure up a func- handled climate policy in the Obama tioning global public health infrastructure, administration, oer a road map for eective crisis-management systems, overhauling American foreign policy and and leaders who put lives over pride. But institutions to rise to the occasion. at least we can learn the lessons. Rebecca Henderson shows why Climate change is also a crisis. It is business leaders are starting to drive a unfolding more slowly than its pandemic green agenda rather than obstruct it.