The US president-elect’s delight in being unpredictable may end up dissipating US power rather than strengthening it. Australians may come to regret that.
For the past eight decades grand strategy has been the rhetorical centre of US strategic policy. Over that time the contours have changed but every administration has sought to articulate US interests with broad strokes which blend interests and values.
Will Donald Trump follow in the same tradition?
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Peter Varghese is the chancellor of the University of Queensland and a former secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
