Ahmad, Nadia2022-04-042022-04-042022Nadia B Ahmad, The Cliodynamics of Mass Incarceration, Climate Change, and" Chains on Our Feet", 49 FORDHAM URB. LJ 371 (2021).http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/18068"What's the urgency?" - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin "When they talk about the USA, they say it is a country with justice. That's a lie." President Joe Biden stood at the podium during his address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on September 21, 2021. He raised his hands in a classic power pose and said: Instead of continuing to fight the wars of the past ... we are fixing our eyes on devoting our resources to the challenges that hold the keys to our collective future: Ending this pandemic, addressing the climate crisis, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the rules of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber and emerging technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. In this sweeping statement, the President gave a nod to the "global power dynamics" shaping broader geosociopolitical changes in the world. He acknowledged the scope of the world's problems and argued for the prioritization of "rebuilding our alliances, revitalizing our partnerships and recognizing they're essential and central to America's enduring security and prosperity." President Biden's UNGA speech revealed a clear understanding of what is known in strategic management and business organization studies as the idea of complexity through mentioning global power dynamics in relation to changes in trade, technology, climate change, the pandemic, and terrorism. He added: "Our security, our prosperity and our very freedoms are interconnected, in my view, as never before. And so, I believe we must work together as never before." His speech was a welcome reprieve from four years of the anti-globalist fatalism of President Donald Trump's America First jingoism.Law