Source: Foreign Policy
by Emma Ashford
“Vladimir Lenin once noted that there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. By that standard, the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s presidency have comprised at least 20 years of foreign-policy change. The administration’s ‘move fast and break things’ approach to foreign policy has been consistent only in its chaos. … how are we to make sense of the chaos? It’s clear that the second Trump administration is aiming for change — not inertia — in U.S. foreign policy, though the direction of that change is unclear. Still, there are four explanatory models worth considering as we try to explain its choices so far.” (04/24/25)