The Trump Administration’s Foreign Policy : A Trumpian World of Uncertainty or A Decline of Pax-Americana?

This book offers a serious investigation of one of the most controversial contemporary American Studies issues: President Donald Trump's foreign policy. Actually, an ambiguous, inconsistent uncertainty would best describe President Trump's approach to foreign affairs. This book investigates Trump's foreign policy agenda, style, principles, priorities, and patterns. The main challenge of this book is to check whether President Trump's foreign policy initiatives are faithful to the traditional and modern-era foreign policy schools (such as 'America First'), or whether they are merely inconsistent, impulsive, incoherent initiatives which lack the complexity of a serious foreign policy agenda or doctrine? This book puts the nature of Pax-Americana and US Exceptionalism face to face with the assumption of a post-American world. It also examines the 'Trump Doctrine' as what Trump himself described as a 'brand new' foreign policy. Thus, this book offers a further assessment of the assumption that Trump is establishing a new school of American foreign policy. Cover Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Trump’s Controversial Foreign Policy A Realist and Pragmatic World View A Populist and Inconsistent Foreign Policy The End of American Exceptionalism and the Decline of Pax-Americana 2: Trump vs. Traditional Foreign Policy Schools Major Foreign Policy Approaches Major Foreign Policy Doctrines and Schools A Portrayal of Trumps’ Personality 3: Foreign Policy at Trumpland The Worldview of the Trump Administration Trump’s Approach to Foreign Affairs Trump’s Foreign Policy Style 4: Trumpism in Action: Case Studies Donald Trump vs. International Treaties and Agreements Donald Trump’s Attitude towards the Iran Nuclear Deal Trump’s Policy vis-à-vis China 5: Deciphering Trump’s Foreign Policy Trump’s Incoherent and Ambiguous Foreign Policy The Lack of a Clear Foreign Policy Pattern The Impact of Trump’s Personality on His Administration’s Foreign Policy The Future of American Diplomacy Conclusion About the Author