ABSTRACT
Since the end of the Cold War it is a commonplace that we need both a new vision and a new framework for foreign policy. President Bush talked of a new world order but was unable to articulate what it was, and the Clinton administration has been no better at setting forth its global purposes. A parallel difficulty afflicts the now nearly global concern with sustainable development. Sustainability—albeit still very much in the process of definition—has not been connected with a theory of state relations that grounds the concept in a vision of world order. This is a reason that it remains a peripheral public policy concern. 1
