Lissner, Rebecca and Rapp-Hooper, Mira
Absent at the creation? American strategy and the delusion of a post-Trump restoration
- Foreign Affairs
- 104(4), Jul-Aug, 2025: p.108-121
In Donald Trump’s first go-round as U.S. president, his heterodox approach seemed to portend a dramatic transformation in American foreign policy and potentially even the end of the rules-based international order. And yet for the most part, prevailing institutions, groupings, and rules endured. Washington’s alliances held fast, U.S. adversaries advanced their interests in real but limited ways, and American power proved resilient.- Reproduced
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