How to pronounce “international system” in English

His career has been very storied across a dozen countries from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, and today he's here to talk about disruptionin the international system, arguing that the political pressure being applied against the judicial systems and prosecutors today have resulted in a crisis of legitimacy that'sweakened institutions. So we'll start out by talking a little bit about the current situation and then some thoughts for the future.

It doesn't take a very detailed search to see that the news headlines these days are rather troubling on the international front.We're seeing in many cases an assault on the international system-- 50 years of peace and prosperity from things like the EuropeanUnion to NATO-- and where do we stand with all that?

And we've had Beirut and Alexandria and so forth.The countries that seem like they are the bedrock of our international system, legally, are actually fairly insignificant in comparisonto the long histories of our cities have.

to your question, Eric. What we consider the international system,and what probably most of you consider the international system is a number of states in relation with each other that serve each other with diplomats and that balance eachother. And there are certain rules. You cannot cross borders and you can't intervene in international affairs -- in domestic affairs. So people think that that is the natural order

I think there will be fields where they do that.So last time I checked, there was one international system.

Part of the importance of the Stanford Leadership Institute in a forum like today's event is people learning about specifics, learning about particular issues, what is going onright now, how to approach specific problems that they or their organizations may face The international system has evolved into one inwhich particularly the world of technology, but also the international economy are more competitive, adversarial, decoupling than at any other time.

It's happening. It's changing the world around us.And we're trying to think about, what might an international system look like?

the most. And so I concluded what bothers me most is -- it's sort of grandiloquently called world order. It arises the following way, in responseto your question, Eric. What we consider the international system,and what probably most of you consider the international system is a number of states in relation with each other that serve each other with diplomats and that balance each

all over the country. If that is correct, what follows from it is that it only takes a few other leaders, a few moral men and women, the President of the United States, the leadersof some European countries and elsewhere, to make a decision to change the international system and change the cost/benefit calculus or the sy-, the cost/benefit incentives thatwould-be genocidal leaders phase.

that were keeping up with technology.I think that there's been a huge amount of growth in the developing world, and to a large extent, that is attributable to the opening up of the international system