Trump’s Board of Peace and the politics of control

The history of American power is, in many ways, the history of reinventing rules — or designing new ones — to fit strategic US interests. This may sound harsh but it is a necessary realization, particularly in light of US President Donald Trump’s latest political invention: the “Board of Peace.” Some have hastily concluded that Trump’s newest political gambit — unveiled last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos — is a uniquely Trumpian endeavor, detached from earlier US foreign policy doctrines.

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