very mixed set of views there back to boris fulton professor of politics of balance but college what is your view of the trump presidency so far particularly the way that donald trump conducts foreign policy there's been a lot of chaos and this is what foreign policy experts have been fearing the volatility in the international system we've seen a couple of crises. in the korean case the russia affair different moments where it wasn't quite clear what position the u.s. was standing on and i think this is one thing that worries. states leaders and foreign policy experts most is that the u.s. seems to have taken a particular turn over the last one hundred years one could almost say it was always clear that the u.s. was leading the globe that it was the hedge i'm on but if i did was it beneficial hedge among the believed in certain universal values such as democracy under trump it's not about values but it's about interests and i think where is a lot of people ok our phone many thanks for talking to us thanks. now while love policymakers in washington scrambling at the moment on a solut