The writer is an FT contributing editor, chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, and fellow at IWM Vienna
The geopolitical thinker Robert Kaplan once suggested that “while an understanding of world events begins with maps, it ends with Shakespeare”. Today’s global condition is less exalted. It begins with Donald Trump’s social media posts and ends with the business interests of the US president’s friends and family.
A recent European Council on Foreign Relations publication concludes that Trump’s near-exclusive reliance on friends and family as envoys to broker deals to solve thorny foreign policy problems poses systemic risks for Europe.
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