It hasn’t even been two months since Donald Trump set foot in the Oval Office again, and all hell has broken loose. All bets are off, and the script hasn’t just been flipped—it’s been tossed in the bin. Common sense and decency, you ask? What are those again?

In this episode, I'm asking some simple but pretty controversial questions: Can the world order established by the United States and its allies at the end of World War II—some 80 years ago—survive four years of Donald Trump? Does it even have a place anymore? And if it can’t, will the twilight of the ‘American Age’ have come at the hands of an American president?

I’m fortunate to be joined by a leading scholar of international relations. Professor William Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy, great-power politics, and international security. He was the editor-in-chief of Security Studies and has previously taught at Georgetown and Princeton University.

Be sure to check out part two of this episode—a conversation with Professor John Ikenberry, who teaches Politics and International Affairs at Princeton.

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