Issue Brief on “Trump at the 81st UN General Assembly: American Power, Coercive Diplomacy and the Emerging International Order”
“America is back.” “Our military is the most powerful on earth.” “Our power is expanding.” These opening declarations of President Donald Trump’s address to the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 22 September 2026[1] established the central premise of his speech: American…