E The Magazine For Today's Female Executive August 2018 issue

justice, security and adherence
Rule of Law - the core
precepts of democracy –
and pursue a foreign policy
based on isolationism.
Patrick Stewart, Senior Fellow
and Director, Program
on International Institutions
and Global Governance,
had this to say:
“Among its many implications,
Donald
Trump’s election as
president calls into
question the open liberal
international order
this country has championed
and defended
for more than seven
decades. The edges of
that order were already
fraying, thanks to disenchantment
with the
global economy and
the return of geopolitical
competition, particularly
with Russia and
China. Trump’s triumph
will accelerate its disintegration,
by undermining
the network of rules, institutions,
and alliances that twelve presidents,
Republican and Democratic alike,
have nurtured since 1945. The results
of the election suggest that the
main threats to the liberal world order
are no longer foreign but domestic.”
This would certainly be the case if a
Trump presidency and a Republican Congress
opted out of NATO. Mr. Trump is
correct in stating that the U.S. is only one of
five member nations that is current on NATO
dues as acknowledged by NATO Secretary
General Jens Stoltenberg, “The United States
currently accounts for almost 70% of NATO
defence spending, and has rightly called for a
more equitable sharing of the burden.
”However, Mr. Stoltenberg correctly pointed
out that, “On both sides of the Atlantic leaders
have always understood that a stronger, safer
and more prosperous Europe means a stronger,
safer and more prosperous United States.
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