The initiative driven from Washington is aimed more at exporting political alignments and excluding key actors than at building effective regional cooperation.
In just nine months, Trump has launched an unprecedented offensive combining centralization of power, attacks on the rule of law, and political use of the law to push the U.S. toward autocracy.
U.S. foreign policy continues to rely on coercion, but by ignoring the internal dynamics of its partners, it ends up generating resistance, nationalism, and a loss of influence in the region.
