American politics analysts strive to distinguish, in the flood of executive decrees expelled by the president, what is for real and what is just to obtain-further intimidation-more advantageous agreements.
Whatever the intention, the disaster is monumental and hurts not only the inhabitants of the country, whose past grandeur the new occupant of the White House promised to resurrect – to what he meant.
In the external plane, words and acts of the president equally affect the so -called International Order based on rules – or liberal order. Wall work of the democratic West, after, its goal was to reduce the risk of new widespread conflicts and set limits to the pure policy of power and the exercise of brute force in relations between countries. In addition to seeking negotiated solutions to problems that ignore borders – as the environmental crisis or pandemics. Its instrument was the numerous organisms and multilateral arrangements that multiplied around the United Nations and entities such as the IMF and the World Bank.
This is why Trump’s first foreign policy decisions were the US withdrawal from the Paris and the World Health Organization Agreement. The first, hard, aims to build a common way to deal with climate change. The second, integrated into the system, has always been short of the challenges created by global epidemics and the abyssal inequality of resources between nations, despite its glaring importance.
Soon after came the decisions to withdraw America from the UN Human Rights Council; of the International Criminal Court; and the Inter -American Council of Human Rights of (Organization of American States). Undoubtedly, the most vulnerable part of the rules -based international system for the difficulties of making each country comply with their decisions, these organisms also express their highest aspirations of a respectful world of people’s dignity and their protection against all form of violence.
The abandonment of these multilateral organizations adds to the blows to free trade, the threats of annexation of territories, such as Greenland, or occupation, as in the monstrous project for Gaza. Together, they announce a conception that reminds the policy of areas of influence and power equilibrium characteristic of the great European powers in the 19th century, to which scholars attribute the international instability that would have flowed into the Great War of 1914.
Of course, today the world is different and the existence of multilateral entities is proof – and fortunately an obstacle to Trump’s aggressive nationalism, which will also face internal resistance. But there is no doubt that their chaos and destruction policies increase the pre-existing crisis of the rules of the international game and the risk of global disasters.
“The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born: now it’s the time of the monsters.” The phrase is the remarkable Italian thinker Antonio Gramsci, who died in 1937 after eight years in fascist jails. It never seemed so current.
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