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It’s widely accepted that the post-WWII order has changed, but the question remains—what comes next? Political scientist Hal Brands maps out three possible scenarios in a cover essay for Foreign Policy’s latest print issue and joins FP Live to discuss.
Brands is a professor of global affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the author of The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World.
Hal Brands: Three Scenarios for a Post-Trump World
Emma Ashford: A Better Trans-Atlantic Relationship Is Entirely Possible
Sarang Shidore: Can Middle Powers Gel?
Suzanne Nossel: What Would an Abundance Foreign Policy Look Like?
Nils Gilman: Electrostates vs. Petrostates
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