Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads.Donald Trump will be sworn in as president of the US next January 20 after his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton last week. The result has turned the international order on its head and raises fears of a new era of nationalism where the interests of nation states trump (if you’ll excuse the pun) the integration of the world, and the phenomenon of globalisation, since World War 2. The reason the European Union exists was a French idea to prevent war between itself and Germany again. The global supply chains that have enabled, for example, an American car to be from parts machined and sewn and cut all over the world is under threat. The old order is not going to survive this. The Americans have enormous power and we are going to feel it again. For SA, the Trump victory makes a shift deeper into the embrace of Russia and China more rather than less likely.And by all accounts Trump is not going to hang about implementing some of his more outla...
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