"Managing Global Insecurity" and "Responsible Sovereignty"

Stanford Professor Stephen J. Stedman addressed a World Affairs Council of Oregon luncheon on 4/22/09. His topic was “Managing Global Insecurity,” covering themes from the book he recently coauthored (here):  Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats. About seventy were in the audience, including a group of twenty foreign policy leaders and journalists visiting Portland under the auspices of the Department of State.

Professor Stedman is a Professor of Political Science at Stanford and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation. He was research director of the United Nations High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change from 2003-04, and in 2006 became Assistant Secretary General and Special Advisor to Kofi Annan, then Secretary General of the United Nations. (See more bio here)

In his luncheon address, he made the following points:

(1) In an era of transnational threats, no country, not even the US, can defend itself unilaterally.

(2) Depending on where you live in the world, one sees different threats. Not all the world sees terrorists as the main threat.

(3) Military power is over rated and often counter productive.

(4) The US uses international institution everyday.

(5) International institutions all need to be strengthened.

(6) The US has no clue how to make international institutions better.

(7) Lots of countries would prefer weak international institutions over strong international institutions that are just the tools of US foreign policy.

(8) That "national sovereignty" of the 20th century must give way to "responsible sovereignty"—a principle requiring nations not only to protect their own people but also to cooperate across borders to safeguard common resources and tackle common threats.

Stedman with his coauthors, expanded on his “responsible sovereignty” concept in a Huffington Post article “Changing How We Address Global and National Security” (here):

We believe that responsible sovereignty, or the injunction that sovereignty entails obligations and duties to one's own citizens and to other sovereign states, is such a principle. In our book, Power & Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threat we refine and extend the concept and apply it to diverse transnational threats to formulate solutions. We argue that responsible sovereignty requires all states to be accountable for their actions which have impacts beyond their borders; and makes such reciprocity a core principle in restoring international order and in providing for the welfare of one's own citizens. In a world of interdependent security, states cannot exercise their responsibility to their own citizens without also exercising it in concert with other states.

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