The executive order signed by US President Donald Trump, withdrawing America from more than five dozen international organisations, marks a decisive turn towards an ostrich-like foreign policy—burying its head in unilateral bravado while the world reshapes itself without Washington. In one sweeping move, the United States has squandered the commanding position it painstakingly built over decades in institutions meant to foster cooperation on security, law, trade, economics and human rights.

Abdication masquerading as strength

This is not retrenchment born of strategic prudence; it is abdication masquerading as strength. By cutting ties with forums across the United Nations system and beyond, the Trump administration has reduced the United States to an island unto itself,........

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