TY - JOUR
T1 - Donald Trump and American foreign policy
T2 - The return of the Jacksonian tradition
AU - Clarke, Michael
AU - Ricketts, Anthony
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2017/8/8
Y1 - 2017/8/8
N2 - This article examines the wellsprings of Donald Trump's nascent foreign policy program. It argues that the locus of the Republican president's foreign policy agenda is found within the Jacksonian tradition of American foreign policy identified by Walter Russell Mead. Here, notions of “national honor” and “reputation” are the driving factors that underpin Trump's emerging narrative. The implications of this for U.S. strategic and defense policy may be an enhanced reliance on nuclear deterrence and the downgrading of the U.S. military's forward posture in Asia and the Middle East.
AB - This article examines the wellsprings of Donald Trump's nascent foreign policy program. It argues that the locus of the Republican president's foreign policy agenda is found within the Jacksonian tradition of American foreign policy identified by Walter Russell Mead. Here, notions of “national honor” and “reputation” are the driving factors that underpin Trump's emerging narrative. The implications of this for U.S. strategic and defense policy may be an enhanced reliance on nuclear deterrence and the downgrading of the U.S. military's forward posture in Asia and the Middle East.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85032835170&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01495933.2017.1361210
DO - 10.1080/01495933.2017.1361210
M3 - Article
SN - 0149-5933
VL - 36
SP - 366
EP - 379
JO - Comparative Strategy
JF - Comparative Strategy
IS - 4
ER -