Will the world be less safe once Donald Trump becomes president?
CBC Radio | Posted: November 12, 2016 9:54 PM | Last Updated: November 12, 2016
Donald Trump's victory has been met with shock and concern on the international stage.
"A world is collapsing before our eyes," said the French ambassador to the U.S. Former NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said Trump's election would be "the end of the American-led world order."
Many fear a sea change in the network of international alliances that has kept the world relatively peaceful since the end of the Second World War. In addition to NATO, they include free trade, nuclear nonproliferation and mutual-defense treaties.
But during his campaign, Donald Trump rejected the idea that America should be "the world's policeman". He advocated an "America First" foreign policy -- withdrawing from NATO, breaking trade deals, and making it difficult for refugees fleeing conflict to enter the U.S.
Oh yes, and there's that wall.
So...is Donald Trump's victory part of a global trend of nativist, populist, white nationalist, closed-border movements? And does his election make the world less safe?
Here at The Sunday Edition, we often turn to Paul Rogers to make sense of disorienting times. Paul Rogers is Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. His most recent book is called, Irregular War: ISIS and the New Threats from the Margins.