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Governments will have to think through what they can do, but
at the same time increasingly they are going to be transnational.
The environment can only be dealt with transnationally. Last
year, for the first time in history—my degree is in international
law—all countries banded together, regardless of their interests,
to put down terrorism. That’s one of the great turning points
in history. I think you will see the same thing happening with
respect to North Korea. That’s a transnational task. So we have
transnational tasks, national tasks, and local tasks. That’s a very
different world from that of political scientists who saw the na-
tional government as the only power center and center of action.
And you can see that already pretty clearly. We just don’t quite
know how to organize it.

From a speech given at the Economic Club of Washington.