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What Trump has in store for six global hotspots

Capitals around the world are dusting off the old briefing books from Trump’s first term, but this time could be a mix of the old … and the totally unexpected.

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There’s a great deal more than chandeliers rattling in the grand halls of world diplomacy. Some fear that with Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House, the entire edifice of the institutional postwar order, already strained by an America turned inwards and the chaos of war in Europe and the Middle East, stands on the threshold of collapse.

But there is likely to be far more resilience in the international system than these dire predictions would suggest.

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James Curran
James CurranInternational editorJames Curran is The Australian Financial Review’s international editor and professor of modern history at Sydney University.
Hans van Leeuwen
Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondentHans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London. Connect with Hans on Twitter. Email Hans at hans.vanleeuwen@afr.com

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