America, The Disgraced Super-power

At this moment of unprecedented upheaval, it is striking that some things never change. We are being subjected to a tidal wave of interpretation and speculation as to what a Trump administration means for American foreign relations in regard to inter alia Russia, Syria, the Iran nuclear deal, the “pivot to Asia,” trans-Atlantic ties and, of course, Mexico. It is entirely natural for a distraught political elite to wonder what comes next from this unstable, quixotic showman who soon will be s...