Never before in American history has the prospective foreign policy of a new Administration been cloaked in so much uncertainty. This is because four distinct sources of uncertainty have joined together to make a proverbial perfect storm: Donald Trump’s profound lack of government experience; his present-oriented, narcissistic personality; the likelihood that still-unidentified and untested cadres of appointees will have outsized influence in the foreign policy/national security field; and the fact that the Enlightenment predicates of both Western states and the Westphalian state system are eroding both from within and without.1Amid this storm, there are nevertheless only three possible generic outcomes …read more
Source: The American Interest
