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Trump’s Old World Order

US President Donald Trump’s primary foreign-policy objective appears to be to dismantle the postwar US-led order that has underpinned global stability for 80 years. In its place, he is ushering in an era of neo-imperial competition driven by Christian nationalism, sustained by irrational impulses, and wrapped in brazen rhetoric.

ISTANBUL – At the beginning of Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, I argued that this would be no ordinary US presidency. The international order, already beset by fundamental weaknesses and disputes over its core values and institutions, was now facing a seismic shift.

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