Hoover Institution director Condoleezza Rice warns of what she calls the “new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” — populism, nativism, isolationism, and protectionism— working their way into the minds of the American electorate.
She argues that for an American president to successfully advocate for an internationalist foreign policy, they must vividly depict the catastrophic consequences of US withdrawal from global leadership and how revisionist powers will exploit the breakdown of the post–World War II order for their own aims.
These include a more aggressive Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, emboldened by a victorious campaign in Ukraine, who would likely pursue further conquests; Iran and its proxies igniting additional conflicts in the Middle East; and a significantly weakened global economy.
Read the full article titled “The Perils of Isolationism” by Condoleezza Rice in Foreign Affairs.
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