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The United States is likely to become more isolationist regardless of who becomes its next president, India’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. Speaking at an event in Canberra as Americans were still casting votes, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the election was unlikely to reverse what he called he called a long-term trend in US policy. “Probably […]
It’s dangerously naive to view former U.S. President Donald Trump as simply another “isolationist” whose foreign policy echoes nothing darker than Americans’ historical urges to pull back from the world. Charles Kupchan offered such reassurances in a recent essay titled “The Deep Roots of Trump’s Isolationism.” He argued that Trump’s unilateralism strongly resembles the United […]