2025-07-10
1 小时 4 分钟I'm Dan Kurtz-Valen, and this is the Foreign Affairs Interview.
If we as American foreign policy thinkers and strategists don't seize the opportunity to build creatively from the wreckage of Trump's foreign policy,
we may miss a moment that will never come again, because the world will move on without us.
An America that is facing a multipolar world can still be extremely strong and extremely successful at achieving its aims in that world.
It just has to be much more intentional in the way that it approaches its leadership,
plans for the use of its resources,
and harmuses institutions and partners to a set of shared objectives.
For all its promise of disruption,
Donald Trump's first term as president transformed American foreign policy less than most critics feared and some supporters hoped.
Alliances held up, the rules-based order largely endured,
and American global leadership appeared resilient.
And so, when Joe Biden was elected president in 2020,
he could reclaim America's back and proceed with a foreign policy that was in many ways quite traditional.
But Trump's second term has been different.
In just a few months, he has broken with decades of precedent on everything from trade to alliances,
And as Rebecca Lisner and Mira Rapphooper argue in a new Foreign Affairs essay,
this time there will be no going back.
Trump's presidency will fundamentally change American leadership and global order.
As senior officials on the Biden National Security Council,
Lisner and Rapphooper helped chart the way forward after Trump's first term.