Now We Face The (Temporary?) End of American Internationalism

When Donald J Trump is inaugurated as president on 20 January 2017, the United States will join the growing list of countries with hard-right, nationalist, anti-globalist and xenophobic governments. This list today includes countries like Hungary, Poland, the Philippines and, in some respects, Turkey. 

Britain after Brexit and Russia share some of these characteristics. 

Others are waiting in the wings – France faces a presidential election in 2017 with Marine Le Pen’s rightist National Front doing well in the polls. The Netherlands in 2017 will have parliamentary elections with Geert Wilders’ nationalist populists emerging as a major party. German parliamentary elections follow, with the nationalist and anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland gaining strength. And Austria, with a repeat of its recent presidential elections, might complete that list. 

While the political and economic consequences of Trump’s victory and the fact that both houses of Congress remain in Republican hands are of primary importance, the implications for higher education will be significant, also given the changing global environment in which these developments occur. 

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