1st Edition

The Trump Presidency Continuity and Change in US Foreign Policy

Edited By Matthew Alan Hill, Steven Hurst Copyright 2023
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

Did Donald Trump decisively transform and alter the course of US foreign policy? All presidents promise change, but few presidents promise changes as radical as Trump did during his presidency. The extent to which Trump delivered on that promise, however, remains hotly debated with little or no agreement. The chapters in this edited volume argue that much of this debate is a dialogue of the... Read more

Introduction: The Trump presidency: continuity and change in US foreign policy

Matthew Hill and Steven Hurst

1. The Trump foreign policy record and the concept of transformational change

Edward Ashbee and Steven Hurst

2. What makes America great? Donald Trump, national identity, and U.S. foreign policy

Hilde Eliassen Restad

3. When ends Trump means: continuity versus change in US counterterrorism policy

Rubrick Biegon and Tom F. A. Watts

4. Security and polarization in Trump’s America: securitization and the domestic politics of threatening others

Ben Fermor and Jack Holland

5. Low- conceptual complexity and Trump’s foreign policy

Asaf Siniver and Christopher Featherstone

6. Why American grand strategy has changed: international constraint, generational shift, and the return of realism

Nicholas Kitchen

7. “You think our country’s so innocent?” The Trump administration’s policy on democratic practices in Russia and the challenge to US identity

Ruth Deyermond

8. Crisis, narratives, and the construction of US- Middle East relations: continuity and change in world history and Trump’s America First

Oz Hassan

9. The Trump administration: continuity and change in US foreign policy

Matthew Hill and Steven Hurst

Biography

Matthew Alan Hill is the International Relations and Politics Lead at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. His current research interests are in US foreign policy, in particular, democracy promotion, and dystopian world predictions. His most recent publication is The Rise and Fall of US Democracy Promotion: From Carter to Biden (Routledge, 2022).

Steven Hurst is Reader in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. His research interests are US foreign policy toward the Middle East and aspects of Foreign Policy Analysis. He is the author most recently of The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Programme (2018).