Episode 2: T.V. Paul - The world and Trump 2.0's new America

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar Kashmeri

The 2nd inauguration of Donald Trump didn’t just herald the Presidency of another U.S. chief executive to lead the America for the next 4 years. It heralded a President who promised a wholesale redesign of the Presidency and the norms that channeled and guided American behavior within and without America.
Trump 2.0 is bringing forth America 2.0 – a country that will believe in might versus right, a reversal of the open trading system, a shrinkage of U.S. Departments that were considered indispensable including: Education, International AID, and a wholesale replacement of critically important Departments’ leadership and staffs by firing long time career officials and and hiring only those who have unquestioning loyalty to Mr. Trump, including the Departments of Justice, the Central Intelligence Agency, the FBI, and the Director of National Intelligence.
However, in the the attempt to re-craft the historical trajectory that U.S. has followed for generations we have only heard from the U.S. so far. How will the countries of the global south/majority react to this new unbound America? How will countries of the global south/global majority, ASEAN, BRICS, etc. not to mention China react and how will they attempt to re-draft their strategies (individually or collectively) to try and fit into a dramatically changing America, while keeping their economies and national interest reasonably intact.
Professor T V Paul

James McGill Professor of International Relations in the department of Political Science at McGill University. Paul specializes and teaches courses in international relations, especially international security, regional security and South Asia. He is the author or editor of 21 books and nearly 85 journal articles or book chapters. In September 2018, Paul became a Fellow (Elected) of the Royal Society of Canada. He delivered the presidential address on the theme: “Recasting Statecraft: International Relations and the Strategies of Peaceful Change.” In the presentation, he called for the International Relations discipline to devote more attention to strategies for achieving enduring peace among states.
His most recent book is the best-selling, “The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status From Nehru to Modi“.