LONDON ― So much for the end of history. Twenty-seven years to the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall heralded the collapse of communism in Europe, Donald Trump’s election as United States president endangers the liberal international order that his wiser, broader-minded predecessors crafted.Trump’s “America First,” anti-globalist agenda threatens protectionist trade wars, a worldwide “clash of civilizations,” the peace in Europe and East Asia and further violence in the Middle East. His nativist and authoritarian views also undermine the shared values, faith in liberal democracy and assumption of benign American hegemony on which the rules-based international system depends. …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
