"The worries are that Trump will embark on a foreign policy based on superficial quick wins, zero-sum games, and mostly bilateral transactions and that he may ignore the value of international order building, steady alliances, and strategic thinking," it says.
The whole elaborate architecture has had extra underpinning from strong regional organisations, such as the European Union, and less elaborate ones like the African Union and the various talking-shops of Latin America, the Arab world and Asia, as well as from steadying alliances, such as NATO.
Nor was she ever able to build the steady, slow alliances to reform free movement from within the EU, having wasted political capital in a pretend row over the European arrest warrant.
A poll for The Toronto Star showed Liberal support had risen to 50percentt from 48percentt, while backing for the right-wing Canadian Alliance stayed steady at 19percentt.
Referring to the steady expansion of the alliance, which will be discussed in detail next year at a meeting in Prague, Mr. Bush said, "The question of 'when' may still be up for debate within NATO".
While noting the alliance's steady progress in eroding the combat effectiveness of Colonel Qaddafi's forces, General Bouchard also outlined three options for how NATO could continue the mission beyond the three months that allied leaders approved in March, said the diplomat, who had been briefed on the report.
While there is a time for nuance, diplomacy and the steady, slow work of alliance building, many voters sense that for Mr. Kerry, these words mask a basic reluctance, born in the Vietnam era, to use military power under any circumstances.
The second kind is the historical alliance: the steady, long-term relationship that extends past any specific event, threat, or topic.
I saw resolve in times of crisis, a steady hand that shaped an alliance and threw back a tyrant.
But Japan's prime minister came to Washington to ensure that the U.S.-Japan alliance was on steady ground with the new administration, and to explore the economic pathway for Japan as the president develops his America First agenda.
