How America First will transform the world in 2025 @gideonrachman is a timely piece. 

But its view that the US is a revisionist power is hardly new; what is new is that leading western analysts are only now waking up and admitting  it.  Same about the Trump  threat to liberal order: 
in 2017 after Trump's first win, I wrote @EIAJournal that "Trump is unlikely to reverse the decline of the liberal order...Instead, he may well push it over the precipice."

But Western pundits really need to  do some serious soul searching and tell us why the decline of the West might be such a bad thing for the rest of the world. 

Instead of keeping lamenting the decline of the US-led order they need to look at what alternative orders might be possible including one that might be more just, inclusive & peaceful than what has been the case under Western dominance for past centuries. 

Unfortunately these questions are not getting attention, but they are central to my new book The Once and Future World Order, to be out in April.I urge & challenge Mr Rachman (whom I have a lot of respect for) and other columnists like @FareedZakaria (who talks of the post-American world, but also says it will be a total disaster for everyone) - to address these fundamental and long-term questions in future columns. Only then can one have a meaningful debate over the future of world order.via @ft