Stephen M. Walt
I swear: My plan was to write about something other than U.S. President Donald Trump this week, but the torrent of bad policies emanating from the White House is impossible to ignore. I’m supposed to write about things that are important, and the foreign policy of the world’s most powerful country is surely one of them, especially when it makes a sudden and far-reaching lurch into the bizarre. So I hope you’ll forgive me if I remain focused on the foreign-policy revolution the Trump administration is attempting to implement.
The key issue is the impact that Trump’s imposition of tariffs, his withdrawal from the World Health Organization, and his other recent initiatives are going to have on American lives. And part of the answer to that question depends on how the rest of the world reacts to Trump’s heavy-handed attempts to browbeat and bully them—starting with some of our closest allies. I wrote about this issue a few weeks ago, but today I want to explore the broader conceptual and theoretical issues that underpin it.
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