H-Diplo | ISSF POLICY Series
America and the World—2017 and Beyond
The Trump Administration and the Middle East
Essay by F. Gregory Gause, III, Texas A&M University
Published on 14 August 2017 | issforum.org
Editors: Robert Jervis, Francis Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse
Web and Production Editor: George Fujii
I agree with Tom Maddux and to a substantial degree with Elliott Abrams' Foreign Affairs article "Trump the Traditionalist?". There remains a major caveat, however. Donald Trump's personal traits, his unfamiliarity with issues, his apparent unwillingness or inability to master the most important topics, and a habit of contradicting his own administration's policies could lead to dangerous or unintended outcomes in the event of a major foreign policy crisis.
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PDF version of H-Diplo Roundtable XVIII, 33 on Aragorn Storm Miller. Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8263-5687-1 (hardcover, $65.00).
I enjoyed reading Professor Andrew Bacevich's essay on President Donald Trump and the Global Order. I do question whether Trump is moving to break with past U.S. policy despite his rhetoric. As Bacevich notes, Trump has exhibited little sense of understanding U.S. policy since 1945 or little evidence of a willingness to study it. Trump wants to be the center of attention; witness his performances at several international meetings, sit-downs with world leaders, etc.
H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable, Volume IX, No. 21 (2017)
issforum.org
H-Diplo/ISSF Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse
H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable and Web/Production Editor: George Fujii
John M. Schuessler. Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5359-5 (hardcover, $27.95).
H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable, Volume IX, No. 20 (2017)
H-Diplo/ISSF Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse
H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable and Web/Production Editor: George Fujii
Jarrod Hayes. Constructing National Security: U.S. Relations with India and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9781107040427 (hardback, $113.00).
H-Diplo | ISSF POLICY Series
America and the World—2017 and Beyond
A Double Standard?[1]
Essay by Marc Trachtenberg, University of California, Los Angeles
Published on 21 July 2017 | issforum.org
H-Diplo Essay No. 148
An H-Diplo State of the Field Essay
Published on 18 July 2017
H-Diplo Essay Editors: Seth Offenbach and Diane Labrosse
H-Diplo Web and Production Editor: George Fujii
State of the Field Essay: Haiti’s Revolution and the Early American Republic
URL: http://tiny.cc/E148
Essay by Wendy Wong-Schirmer, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
