ABSTRACT
The unprecedented scope of the foreign policy problems facing Washington emerges from the incongruity between the functional unity and the political disunity of the globe. Competitiveness among large social groups is less useful when the human race is the subject of concern than when only a national group is the focal point for protection, production, and consumption. The human interest is the collection of goals and strategies that are consistent with and will advance the values of global humanism. The global humanist vision offers a humane alternative to the neo-Darwinian trend in the establishment of a concert of great powers or multinational corporate elites. The political attractiveness of a vision of world order based on an open, self-correcting understanding of the values of global humanism could be critically important in determining which of several alternative models of the future will in fact become reality.
