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Donald Trump and American foreign policy: the return of the Jacksonian tradition / Ricketts, Anthony; Clarke, Michael

Clarke, Michael	Journal Article
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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.

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American Foreign Policy ; Donald Trump ; Jacksonian Tradition

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Understanding the return of the Jacksonian tradition / Clarke, Michael ; Ricketts, Anthony

Clarke, Michael	Journal Article
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The 2016 presidential election demonstrated the rise of a “restraint constituency” in American politics that openly questions Washington’s bipartisan post-Cold War pursuit of a grand strategy of primacy or liberal hegemony. This constituency has been animated by the return of the Jacksonian tradition of American foreign policy, most notably in the candidacy of Donald Trump, which directly questions the benefits of alliance relationships as well as U.S. underwriting of an open global economic system. It also stresses the need for the United States to act unilaterally in defense of its core foreign policy interests. The resurgence of the Jacksonian tradition will make it difficult for the next President to reestablish a foreign policy consensus and combat perceptions of American decline.

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American Foreign Policy ; 2016 Presidential Election ; Jacksonian Tradition ; Restraint Constituency

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