Richard N. Haass Quotes

In our globalized world, what happens in one nation has a very real impact on everybody else.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.

After globalisation, one country can't destabilise another country, as the international community will not forget it.

We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.

What happens in one region affects people across the world.

As our world gets more interconnected, no one country or region can meet development challenges on its own.

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

Isolationism is over.

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

In a globalized world policies based on zero-sum games do not work.

We do live, like it or not, in a world that is deeply interdependent. 9-11 proved that even security is something that we cannot achieve by ourselves.

Sovereignty will fall victim to the flow of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, dollars, drugs, viruses, and e-mails… Sovereign states will increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another but to forces of globalization beyond their control.

There are no national strategies any longer. There's only national poverty. With the global economy there are only global strategies. We're moving from a world of enemies that are national to a world of global dangers. Can you place boundaries on pollution?