How a Second Trump Term Will Affect the World

How a Second Trump Term Will Affect the World
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Mich., April 2, 2024 (AP photo by Paul Sancya).

Yesterday, former U.S. President Donald Trump won a decisive victory over VP Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election. In the run-up to yesterday’s vote, we’ve been covering the potential impact of the outcome on U.S. foreign policy and the international order more broadly.

Today, we thought it would be helpful to run down specifically what a second Trump term will likely mean for different aspects of global affairs, based on our coverage:

The Big Picture

U.S. Foreign Policy, by Paul Poast. Most of what Trump has said about foreign policy—and, to be clear, he has offered little in terms of details—has sounded a lot like his first term. “It could be that Trump is simply out of new ideas. But he might also truly believe that what he did the first time around worked.”

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