November 9 – 10 / 2016 Some “Council on Foreign Relations” (CFR) member responses – Say what?

CFR Presidential 2016 transition page – Trump

Goodbye to All That? World Order in the Wake of Trump

Stewart M. Patrick , Senior Fellow and Director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program – “Internationalist” blog

“Trump won because he recognized and tapped into deep public anxieties about the direction of the United States and its role in the world. Specifically, he understood that a growing number of Americans mistrust globalization, are weary of overseas commitments, and are determined to reassert sovereign control over U.S. borders. The U.S. political and economic establishment consistently underestimated the strength of Trump’s populist appeal, in part because elites (including this author) were not looking in the right places or listening to the right people.”

Special Dispatch from Ian Bremmer: A Trump Presidency

Ian Bremmer – also CFR, founder of “Eurasia Group”

“To say I’m surprised by Donald Trump’s victory doesn’t begin to cover the drama of last night’s upset victory.”

“I thought Trump was going to be defeated”

“a populist surge against the most establishment candidate that could be fielded (Hillary Clinton) combined with even lower democratic party turnout; blossoming mistrust of entrenched leaders and institutions; and yawning inequality impacted only marginally by the recent economic rebound”

The President’s (Economic) Inbox

Robert Kahn, Steven A. Tananbaum Senior Fellow for International Economics, CFR – on blog “Macro and Markets”.

“In any scenario, we are taking U.S. economic policy in uncharted directions. The results are likely to be consequential for the economy for some time to come.”

The President’s Inbox: Building a Government – podcast

Hosts: James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, CFR
Robert McMahon, Managing Editor, CFR.org
Elizabeth N. Saunders, Visiting Fellow, CFR

Should the world get ready for Secretary of State Bolton?

“The Journal” – Emily Tamkin, Foreign Policy’s John Hudson and Reid Standish contributed (about John Bolton, member CFR,  August 2005 to December 2006, he served as the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations. 2001 to 2005, he was under secretary of state for arms control and international security.)

“Several names keep popping up on the list to become the top U.S. diplomat in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday. They include Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and European history buff; Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Richard Haas, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former State Dept. official in the George W. Bush administration; and John Bolton, U.N. ambassador under Bush.

Obviously, any one of these men – all veterans of the D.C. swamp Trump said he would drain – could be tapped.”

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Why a Trump Presidency Might Not Be as Awful as We Fear (Op-Ed)

Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, CFR on Foreignpolicy.com (see excerpt) – pay wall

“I can barely believe that I am actually writing those words: “President Trump.” I never thought he was remotely qualified for the highest office, and I never thought he would win. I was obviously wrong about the latter. Now I have to pray that I was wrong about the former.”

What a President Trump Means for Foreign Policy

Elizabeth N. Saunders, Visiting Fellow, CFR on “Washington Post” (see excerpt) – a few free / month

“Donald Trump is the president-elect of the United States. Among many other things, this means he will take charge of U.S. foreign policy. Trump will not manage foreign policy alone, but presidents have a lot of power nonetheless. Here are three things we know about leaders, advisers and foreign policy.”