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On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the American presidential election, to the surprise of many across the globe. Now that Trump is Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful country on earth, Americans and non-Americans alike have been left wondering what this will mean for the world. It has been claimed that Trump's foreign policy views are impulsive, inconsistent and that they were improvised on the campaign trail. However, drawing on interviews from as far back as 1980, Charlie Laderman and Brendan Simms show that this assumption is dangerously false. They reveal that Trump has had a consistent position on international trade and America's alliances since he first considered running for president in the late 1980s. Furthermore, his foreign policy views have deep roots in American history. For the new President, almost every international problem that has confronted the United States can be explained by the mistakes of its leaders. Yet, after decades of dismissing America's leaders as fools and denouncing their diplomacy, Trump must now prove that he can do better.Over the past three decades, he has been laying out in interviews, articles, books and tweets what amounts to a foreign policy philosophy.This book reveals the world view that Trump brings to the Oval Office. It shows how that world view was formed, what might result if it is applied in policy terms and the potential consequences for the rest of the world.
Author Notes
Charlie Laderman is Lecturer in International History at King's College London and a Harrington Faculty Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security, University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Sharing the Burden: Armenia, Humanitarian Intervention and the Search for an Anglo-America Alliance.Brendan Simms is Professor in the History of European International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Unfinest Hour (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Three Victories and a Defeat, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, and Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation
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The central thesis of this book is that President Trump has a coherent, consistent world view. Thus, it is important to examine those beliefs as the holder thereof is now the leader of the free world. This reviewer does think a book on the Trump perspective needs to be written, but this isn't it. To dignify Trump's shtick as a world view would be the same as plumbing the depths of the philosophy of Jack Benny (i.e., fiscal conservatism). It is true that Trump's words have more meaning now that he is president. Some people do take them seriously and will try to act on them--until they realize those words don't really mean anything. For the most part, there is little relationship between what Trump says and what he does. Thus, this book, though interesting in its examination of the evolution of Trump the entertainer, is not a real examination of his world view. That book would better be written by a psychiatrist. Summing Up: Not recommended. --Daniel P. Franklin, Georgia State University
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xv |
| Introduction: Playing the Fool | p. 1 |
| 1 Imperial Overstretch: The Intellectual Roots of Trumpism Abroad | p. 7 |
| 2 Novice: Wealth and the Nation, 1980-2000 | p. 17 |
| 3 Apprentice: Protecting the Nation, 2001-14 | p. 59 |
| 4 Candidate And President-Elect, 2015-17 | p. 95 |
| Epilogue: President Trump vs The World: The First 100 Days | p. 123 |
| Notes | p. 135 |
| Bibliography | p. 151 |
| Index | p. 163 |