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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The old international order is breaking apart, but what is going to take its place?

And how would we rate Donald Trump's foreign policy so far in his second term?

Those are the questions we're going to take up

today on the special edition of Potomac Watch. My guest is Walter Russell Meek, the Global View

columnist for the Wall Street Journal, a weekly columnist. He's also a professor at the University

of Florida's Hamilton Center, a scholar at the Hudson Institute, and a

distinguished historian of American foreign policy. Most recently, in his book, The Ark of a Covenant

on the history of relations between the United States and Israel. Walter, good to have you here.

It's great to see you, Paul.

Thanks for coming in. So let's talk about, this is a theme you've been developing for some time, the changing nature of global

politics. And of course, it's arguably the biggest story anywhere, even if domestic issues

dominate the daily press. For me, it's, I think, the biggest issue right now.

First, why don't you define for our listeners? How would you define the old world order that

is breaking up? After the shocks of First World War I, then the Depression, then World War II,

and then almost immediately afterwards, a kind of Soviet bid to dominate Europe and the Depression, then World War II, and then almost immediately afterwards, a kind of Soviet

bid to dominate Europe and the world. Americans were pretty convinced that we had to get much more

engaged in the world to try to prevent more of this kind of thing happening, especially,

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