Paul Poast reflects on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations.
"America’s actions have long been running counter to Washington’s nonproliferation interests," writes Ivo Daalder.
"This time around, Trump might think he can pull it off even when the rest of the world does not," Daniel Drezner writes.
This past year reordered domestic politics. 2025 will remake the world’s geopolitical map, argues Matt Kaminski.
"War is persistent because the earth is finite," Paul Poast writes.
But recent polling finds key drops among the publics of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
For foreign leaders, the US presidential transition to Donald Trump has already happened, Paul Poast writes—for better and for worse.
Stefanie Bolzen, Prashant Rao, and Andrew Roth join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
Over the next four years, Paul Poast writes, the world will see the United States as the flawed power it has always been.
"The pernicious part of tariffs is the people who spend the highest percentage of their incomes on things like food, and clothes, and books end up paying most of this tax," Cécile Shea says.
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