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Policy Series 2021-52: The Trump “Legacy” for American Foreign Policy

September 22, 2021September 18, 2021 By Charles S. Maier

We cannot calculate President Trump’s “legacy” for United States foreign policy simply by describing his diplomacy while he was in power.  Virtuous fathers can fritter away family wealth, and Mafiosi can leave ill-gotten gains to charity.  It is still too early to know what long-term consequences might emerge, and it is difficult to sort out…

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Policy Series 2021-13: Trump’s Foreign Policy Legacy

March 12, 2021March 6, 2021 By Joshua Busby, Jonathan Monten

Four years ago, we wrote that Donald Trump’s presidency could spell the end of an already weakened liberal international order.[1] Now that the Trump presidency is in the rearview mirror, what can we make of what transpired for U.S. foreign policy and the global order?  In this essay, we review what we wrote four years…

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Forum 26 on Robert Jervis.  “Liberalism, the Blob, and American Foreign Policy: Evidence and Methodology.”  

March 11, 2021March 11, 2021 By Elizabeth N. Saunders, Raphael S. Cohen, Benjamin Wilson, Robert Jervis

When Ben Rhodes, a top foreign policy adviser to President Barack Obama, dubbed the Washington foreign policy establishment the “Blob,”[1] one question that probably occurred to many H-Diplo/ISSR readers was, “What will Jervis think of this?”

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Roundtable 10-31 on The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy

July 15, 2019December 24, 2020 By Michael C. Desch, Paul K. MacDonald, Sergey Radchenko, Kori Schake, Stephen M. Walt, Robert Jervis

I think it is fair to say that over the past hundred years most academic students of international politics have urged the United States to take a more active position in the world, one that was more commensurate with its economic power and stake in what was happening around the globe. Roughly a decade ago…

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Policy Series: Fractured: Trump’s Foreign Policy after Two Years

January 29, 2019December 24, 2020 By David C. Hendrickson

The presidency of Donald Trump is the strangest act in American history; unprecedented in form, in style an endless sequence of improvisations and malapropisms.[1] But in substance there is continuity, probably much more than is customarily recognized. It is hard to recognize the continuity, amid the daily meltdowns (and biennial shutdowns), but it exists. In…

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Article Review 102 on Canadian Foreign Policy

July 27, 2018July 19, 2018 By Jonathan Paquin

Jean-Christophe Boucher’s scholarly essay, “Yearning for a Progressive Research Program in Canadian Foreign Policy” and Brian Bow’s invited response, “Measuring Canadian Foreign Policy,” offer a timely discussion of the state of Canadian Foreign Policy (CFP) analysis. Boucher’s essay should be applauded for its boldness and its diagnosis of some problems encountered in the discipline. Whether…

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Roundtable 10-11 on America Abroad: The United States’ Global Role in the 21st Century

March 19, 2018November 20, 2019 By Robert Jervis, Bruce W. Jentleson, Rosemary A. Kelanic, Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson, Tony Smith, Stephen Brooks, William C. Wohlforth

Our reviewers agree that Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth have produced what Rosemary Kelanic describes as “an extremely useful book that should be required reading for all students of US grand strategy.” The reviewers have paid Brooks and Wohlforth the deep compliment of taking their arguments seriously, and any course on American foreign policy would…

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Roundtable 10-2 on Cohen (The Big Stick), Kaufman (Dangerous Doctrine), and Lieber (Retreat and its Consequences)

October 27, 2017November 20, 2019 By Henry R. Nau, William Inboden, Matthew Kroenig, Erin M. Simpson

The debate about American foreign policy has always divided along two dimensions. How close in or far out should America protect its security? And for what moral or political purpose does America exist and participate in world affairs? ‘Nationalists’ adopt the close-in approach to American security, generally confined to America’s borders and the western hemisphere.[1]…

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Review Essay 33 on US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower

October 26, 2017October 22, 2017 By Christopher J. Fettweis

The Donald Trump administration seems to value change for its own sake. The new President appears intent on rethinking all foreign-policy rules and norms, from diplomatic protocols to staffing to relationships with traditional allies. The next four-to-eight years may prove to be a watershed for U.S. grand strategy, a challenge to fundamental assumptions that forces…

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Roundtable 10-1 on The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America’s Role in the World

September 15, 2017December 24, 2020 By Hal Brands, Robert G. Kaufman, Ronald R. Krebs, Patrick Porter, Mary E. Sarotte, Derek Chollet

It is hard to think of anyone better qualified to write an early history of Barack Obama’s foreign policy than Derek Chollet. For over six years, Chollet served the Obama administration with distinction, in senior positions at the State Department, White House, and Defense Department. He is also an accomplished author who has written numerous…

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