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François Picard is pleased to welcome Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, and author of Autocracy, Inc. According to Applebaum, the upheaval in American diplomacy and foreign policy transcends any one administration. She describes a full-fledged transformation in the way the United States exerts power, pivoting away from leadership of a democratic alliance and toward a transactional mafia-style politics fusing ideology, private economic interests, personal relationships and geopolitical leverage.
In Applebaum’s analysis, the consequences are already extending well beyond Washington. Canada has already begun to take a very proactive approach that seeks to foster closer economic and political alliances with the EU, India and China as Carney is actively pulling away from their once-cozy decades-long relationship; And this is not just limited to the American continent.European governments are also now forced to confront a much less predictable and increasingly adversarial ally. Once thought unimaginable, far-right movements abroad are now experiencing enormous opportunities for political alignment as the US embraces a more hard-line, populist, autocratic style of governing at home and abroad; this has pushed countries across the world to quietly search for alternative economic and security relationships, less dependent on an increasingly combative and impulsive American frenemy.
What makes her argument particularly striking is that she presents these developments as both a revolution and the beginning of a counter-revolution. Trump’s political model has imitators, she argues, but it is also producing fierce resistance. As confidence in American reliability plunges, governments are beginning to hedge their bets over the long-term, diversify their partnerships and imagine a world in which Washington is no longer automatically at the center of the universe.
This might not have been the "America First" that Donald Trump had envisioned. In Applebaum’s telling, we're no longer just facing the uncharted waters of what America might be morphing into at home and on the world stage. We might just be witnessing a new world order unfolding relegating the US to a diminished role in the world brought on by a fiercely isolationist "policy" that ironically envisioned the US in a position of world domination.
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