the end of the free market, ian bremmer.

joining me in the arena ian bremmer president of the u racha group and author of "the end of the free market who wins the war." the question is, is there a foreign policy or merely a series of discreet transactions and does it matter? >> there's no doctrine. despite a nobel prize and despite incredibly articulate articulation of u.s. policy country by country there's no overarching vision for what the u.s. wants its role in a very rapidly evolving world to be. i think it does matter and it matters because your constituents, whether dples particular or international, they can't -- they can only digest sort of a couple of messages. they can't digest 30. so if you're hitting them scatter shot they're not really getting what you're doing. >> there doesn't seem to be a coherence to it. what is it we want of the middle east peace process beyond just peace. who gets what and why? why are we containing china or not? is it trade or jobs? the pieces don't seem to fit together. why are we in afghanistan when terrorism is somewhere else? i don't understand what we're doing and why. and as a const