Trump views multilateral organizations like the WTO as harmful to US interests, seeing compromise in such institutions as a waste of time, signaling a fundamental shift in international policy.
It's a stark philosophical difference regarding the international community's functioning—Trump's America First approach contrasts sharply with Europe’s established rules-based system designed to foster cooperation.
Dieter warns that the end of multilateralism will have severe implications, especially for smaller nations, and reflects on how current geopolitical blocs undermine previously accepted global trade norms.
The underlying belief that supranational solutions could work post-Cold War has eroded, leading to a new era where alliances are more defined by power dynamics than by cooperative frameworks.
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