While voters cast their ballots for president across the United States Tuesday, the world was watching and waiting to see what the future would hold by way of U.S. foreign policy in Europe. A Donald Trump victory — the Associated Press called the race for the former president before 6 a.m. Wednesday — will inject fear and uncertainty across the globe, says Mai’a Cross, dean’s professor of political science, international affairs and diplomacy, and director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures at Northeastern University.
Meanwhile, she says, a Harris administration would have brought a lot of policy continuity, a strong emphasis on NATO and signal reassurance to our neighbors abroad. “Her election would signal that the United States is still on the global stage, that it holds up norms associated with liberal internationalism, international cooperation, diplomacy and transparency,” Cross says of Kamala Harris. “It would be politically and symbolically important.”
