All eyes are on America as an uncertain world awaits critical election result

“We’re shifting out of this post-World War II order into something else — and we’re not quite sure what that’s going to be,” said Karin von Hippel, a former nonpolitical senior adviser at the State Department under President Barack Obama. Von Hippel, now the director of the Royal United Services Institute, a leading London think tank, believes a Trump win would cause the U.S. to become more marginalized globally. But Harris would only slow that trend: “Whoever wins, we’re going to see a further erosion of America’s moral authority and soft power — just at different rates.”