1st Edition
A Trump Doctrine? Unpredictability and Foreign Policy
Introduction: Trump and unpredictability in international relations
Michelle Bentley and Adam B. Lerner
1. Theorizing unpredictability in international politics: a new approach to Trump and the Trump Doctrine
Adam B. Lerner
2. Unpredictability as doctrine: Reconceptualising foreign policy strategy in the Trump era
Michelle Bentley and Maxine David
3. Trump’s low conceptual complexity leadership and the vanishing ‘unpredictability doctrine’
Oz Hassan and Christopher Featherstone
4. The unpredictability factor: Nixon, Trump and the application of the Madman Theory in US grand strategy
James D. Boys
5. Predictably unpredictable: Trump’s personality and approach towards China
Oliver Turner and Juliet Kaarbo
Biography
Michelle Bentley is Reader in International Relations and Director of the Centre for International Security at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She has written two monographs: Weapons of Mass Destruction and US Foreign Policy: The Strategic Use of a Concept (2014) and Syria and the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Exploiting the Forbidden (2016).
Adam B. Lerner, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is also Deputy Director of Royal Holloway’s Centre for International Security (RHISC). His first book, From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics, was published in 2022.
