America and Global Public Goods
America is likely to remain the world’s preponderant power even after it extricates itself from Iraq. This means that it will continue to have a special responsibility for ensuring the provision of global public goods like clean air and access to the seas – things that everyone can consume, without diminishing their availability to others.
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America is currently transfixed with the problem it has created for itself in Iraq, but the presidential candidates are also beginning to ask what principles should guide United States foreign policy after Iraq. In my view, a focus on global public goods – things everyone can consume without diminishing their availability to others – could help America reconcile its preponderant power with others’ interests.