NEW GLOBAL ORDER
From Thucydides to Trump: three traps the world should avoid
The Trump Trap is more subtle yet more troubling: erosion of US-led order through American ambivalence
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THE most dangerous threat to the international order may not be a rising power seeking to overturn it, nor an absent one leaving a vacuum in its wake.
It may be that the power that built the order remains dominant, but is increasingly ambivalent about the system it created. Call this the Trump Trap.
We can see signs of this dynamic in the current stand-off between the US and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. The world still looks to the US to safeguard freedom of passage through one of the most critical maritime chokepoints. No other country is able – or willing – to assume that role.
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