A Trump Doctrine?: Unpredictability and Foreign Policy

ISBN-13: 9781032364773 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 124 str.

Bentley, Michelle

Opis

The contributors to this volume consider whether a conception of unpredictability did inform Trump’s foreign policy as a coherent doctrine. This book also takes the issue further to problematize what the very concept of unpredictability means in respect to International Relations.

Spis treści

Introduction: Trump and unpredictability in international relations  1. Theorizing unpredictability in international politics: a new approach to Trump and the Trump Doctrine  2. Unpredictability as doctrine: Reconceptualising foreign policy strategy in the Trump era  3. Trump’s low conceptual complexity leadership and the vanishing ‘unpredictability doctrine’  4. The unpredictability factor: Nixon, Trump and the application of the Madman Theory in US grand strategy  5. Predictably unpredictable: Trump’s personality and approach towards China