On the World Stage, Trump Can’t Always Get What He Wants

On the World Stage, Trump Can’t Always Get What He Wants

The following is adapted from a report from Crisis Group’s President and CEO Comfort Ero to the organisation’s Trustees in mid-May 2025. She and Executive Vice President Richard Atwood look at the second Trump administration’s foreign policy moves to date and curbs on his stated ambitions.

Trump Struggling to Keep His Peacekeeping Promises

One of the major disappointments at the end of the first five months of Donald Trump’s second term as president has been the lack of progress towards the peaceful resolution of a number of major international conflicts that Trump had promised to negotiate during his presidential campaign last year. Despite Trump’s vigorous efforts, after […]

On the World Stage, Trump Can’t Always Get What He Wants - Global Upfront Newspapers

By International Crisis Group (ICG) What should we make of the early months of Donald Trump’s second term? His domestic intent seems clear enough: consolidate executive power; erode checks and balances, including courts, the media, universities and the private sector; dismantle or reorient much of the state bureaucracy; deregulate industry;...