Former Ambassador Michael McFaul on the New Global Disorder

It is the fall of 1962. John Kennedy is the president, and the meetings in the White House over these last days have been in a crisis mode. We know it now as the Cuban Missile Crisis. However, it has lessons in it that here, all these decades later, we can review because of the concern that we’re in a new Cold War.

We’re not in the same predicament. There’s a third player on the field, the People’s Republic of China. I learned this again and again with lessons learned and things to know from a new book by

Michael McFaul

, the distinguished professor who is the director of the Freeman Institute on the Stanford campus, also at the Hoover Institution.

The book is Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder.

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