ABSTRACT
The nature of threats in the future is likely to arise from two sets of problems. The first set involves order in particular states, their stability and governability, and the forces that threaten both. The second set involves threats to international order from regional powers made bolder by the retreat of the superpowers and the disappearance of the bipolar rules of the road that gave some measure of coherence to international politics for the last half century. American foreign policy makers will have to decide how best to deal with both these sets of problems. The problems are multiple. One of the most significant problems besetting the developing world is the issue of governance itself. In addition to the basic competence of government there are the consequences, often growing out of the first issue, of government made desperate by its inabilities to maintain control.
