![]() ![]() But so would embracing the alternative offered by thinkers across the ideological spectrum who, concerned that our reach exceeds our means, advise us to pull back without considering the likely consequences, as we did in the 1930s.īack then, the result was an even greater global conflagration. Then there are the new challenges of our own century-from cyberwarfare to mass migration to a warming planet-that no one nation can meet alone and no wall can contain.ĭoubling down on “America First,” with its mix of nationalism, unilateralism and xenophobia, would only exacerbate these problems. Yet that president is going to face an increasingly dangerous world that looks more like the 1930s than the end of history-with populists, nationalists and demagogues on the rise autocratic powers growing in strength and increasingly aggressive Europe mired in division and self-doubt and democracy under siege and vulnerable to foreign manipulation. Whoever wins office in 2020 will have a hard time bucking a trend that preceded Trump and will likely survive him. The fact is, whatever tolerance most Americans had for the global role the United States embraced after World War II began to fade with the collapse of the Soviet Union and was shattered by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the 2008 financial crisis. ![]() Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Project on International Order and Strategy ![]()
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