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Trump's Foreign-Policy 'Adhocracy'

Richard Haass, one of the few foreign-policy experts the president says he respects, had some harsh words for the administration's early stumbles.
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The Trump administration’s lack of structure or experience is hobbling its ability to conduct an effective foreign policy, argues Richard Haass, president of the Council of Foreign Relations. “I think it is a recipe for disaster to have multiple centers of authority, to have informal lines of authority,” he said. “I think this administration is doing itself a disservice.

“It’s a decentralized, improvisational administration,”

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