Trump’s worldview is causing a global shift of alliances – what does this mean for nations in the middle?
- Written by Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva, Lecturer in Government - National Security College, Australian National University
Since US President Donald Trump took office this year, one theme has come up time and again: his rule is a threat to the US-led international order.
As the US political scientist John Mearsheimer famously argued, the liberal international order
was destined to fail from the start, as it contained the seeds of its own destruction.
This perspective...