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Foreign Policy Issues for America: The Trump Years book cover

1st Edition

Foreign Policy Issues for America The Trump Years

Edited By Richard W. Mansbach, James M. McCormick Copyright 2019
254 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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As America’s first president never to have served in government or the military, Donald Trump entered the White House with an unformed foreign policy position. Yet he was confronted by a wide range of developing issues; the rise of China, Russian-United States relations, the resurgence of nationalism in Europe, U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America, environmental challenges, terrorism, security... Read more

PART I. Introduction

1. America’s decline, President Donald Trump, and the global liberal order

Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach

2. American foreign policy making: Institutions and individuals in the Trump administration

James M. McCormick

PART II. Regional issues

3. A poor China might be more dangerous than a rich China

Jonathan Hassid

4. Expanding Chinese influence and China-United States relations

Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach

5. Realpolitik: United States-Russian relations and the emerging political order

Scott Feinstein and Ellen B. Pirro

6. The Arctic: An emerging area of conflict

Lana Obradovic and Bethany Vailliant

7. The winds of change: Europe and the United States

Ellen B. Pirro

8. Crossing borders: United States foreign policy in Latin America

Ignacio Mamone and Amy Erica Smith

9. America and the Middle East

Richard W. Mansbach

PART III. Functional Issues

10. Nuclear weapons: A new arms race?

Kirsten L. Taylor

11. America’s energy transition and the global environment: Paradigm shift and policy challenges

Yu Wang

12. Trump and terrorism: A major focus of foreign policy

Ellen B. Pirro

13. Failed and fragile states: The unfinished agenda

David Carment, Mark Haichin, and Yiagadeesen Samy

14. Is weak cyber security an existential threat?

Steffen W. Schmidt

15. Trump’s challenges in international political economy

Mark D. Nieman

PART IV. Conclusions

16. Prospects for America: An eroding global order and American decline?

Richard W. Mansbach and James M. McCormick

Biography

Richard W. Mansbach is Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University.

James M. McCormick is Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University.

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