President Trump may think our power over other nations comes just from our might. What the war in Iran should teach him, and all of us, is that our power also comes from other nations believing our might is right.

 

You Can’t Be a Superpower Without Allies

By Oona A. Hathaway

Professor Hathaway teaches law and political science at Yale and is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the president of the American Society of International Law.