ABSTRACT
There is much to recommend an approach to international relations that aims at inflecting our growing global interdependence toward enhancing diversity and bringing about environments in which relating freely is possible for all. At least in theory, it offers a way of conceiving alternatives both to the choice between competition and cooperation, and the moral default of mere tolerance. But in practice, such an approach can be charged with being insufficiently grounded in the realities of early twenty-first century geopolitics. It is one thing to theoretically espouse opening ourselves to the contributions of all beings in the achievement of meaningfully shared and ultimately liberating environments. It is another thing to open ourselves to the kinds of threat to both national and basic human security that have become so tragically widespread over especially the past quarter century.1
