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Did Trump remake the global order in 2025?

17 Dec 2025 · 41 min

2025 was a transformative year for geopolitics. Victor Cha and the Brookings Institution's Dr. Tom Wright join Will to discuss how the United States' global strategy changed, how its allies and adversaries are responding, and what to watch for in the year ahead.

• Thomas Wright, "A Strategy That Ignores the Real Threats," The Atlantic, December 8, 2025. • Victor Cha (ed.), "Navigating Disruption: Ally and Partner Responses to U.S. Foreign Policy," CSIS, October 6, 2025.

Links in the notes 2

• https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/12/national-security-strategy-ignores-real-threats-trump/685181/
• https://features.csis.org/responses-to-US-foreign-policy/