On the Ballot: Trump’s Foreign Policy Pivot

August 24, 2020 | View in Browser

The End of American Illusion

Trump and the World as It Is

By Nadia Schadlow

President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has “set in motion a series of long-overdue corrections”—corrections that “will help ensure that the international order remains favorable to U.S. interests and values and to those of other free and open societies,” writes Nadia Schadlow, who served as U.S. deputy national security adviser for strategy in 2018.

“In a world of great-power competition, economic inequality, and dazzling technological capabilities, where ideologies as well as pathogens spread with viral ferocity, the stakes are too high and the consequences too dire to simply stick with what worked in the past and hope for the best. Trump recognized this reality earlier than many in the U.S. foreign policy community. Whoever follows him—be it in 2021 or 2025—will need to recognize it, as well.”

This special election coverage is made possible in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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