ABSTRACT
Historians can analyze the past but they cannot with any certainty predict the future. What is certain, however, is that the world has become increasingly interconnected and interdependent. Nationalism remains powerful, but global and transnational forces are increasingly prominent. Moreover the critical foreign policy challenges of the present and future—militarization and terror, WMD, population growth, poverty and disease, human rights, environmental degradation and climate change—all transcend national boundaries. More than ever before, diplomacy and seeking out of global solutions are essential.
