In the seventeenth century, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes warned against anarchy in world politics, conditions that he associated with a devastating “war of all against all” (bellum omnium contra omnes).Appearing in his book Leviathan, this prescient warning highlighted the perpetual interdependence of states in world politics and served as a reminder that “going it alone” must inevitably prove futile. In view of U.S. President Donald Trump’s conspicuously retrograde movement toward “America First,” the Hobbesian assessment turns out to have been prophetic.
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