{"id":35909,"date":"2018-07-11T09:21:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T14:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35909"},"modified":"2018-07-11T09:21:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T14:21:14","slug":"how-trump-is-reshaping-us-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35909","title":{"rendered":"How Trump is Reshaping US Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How Trump is Reshaping US Foreign Policy<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Trump\u2019s policies are shaping America\u2019s relationship with the world in major ways even if those policies don\u2019t exhibit a consistent strategy, observes Paul Pillar.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The urge within the commentariat to describe every president\u2019s foreign policy in terms of some clearly defined doctrine is as strong as ever, but Donald Trump presents would-be doctrine-definers with perhaps their toughest challenge yet.<\/p>\n

This observation is not by itself a criticism of Trump\u2019s policies. Doctrine is overrated. Given the complexities of America\u2019s relationship with the world and the multiplicity of U.S. interests involved, any set of policies that fits neatly into a simply defined doctrine is apt to be too simple to uphold those interests effectively. But Trump\u2019s policies are shaping America\u2019s relationship with the world in major ways even if those policies don\u2019t exhibit the sort of consistent strategy worthy of the lofty term \u201cdoctrine\u201d.<\/p>\n

One recent attempt to define a Trump Doctrine was\u00a0reported by Jeffrey Goldberg<\/a>, who quotes a \u201csenior White House official with direct access to the president and his thinking\u201d as saying that there definitely is a Trump Doctrine, which is, \u201cWe\u2019re America, Bitch\u201d. That remark has some validity in that it reflects an attitude that many of Trump\u2019s policies have exhibited. The remark is a crude synonym for assertive nationalism, a label that clearly applies to much of what Trump has said and done and which analysts of an earlier administration\u00a0applied<\/a>\u00a0in more genteel form to the likes of Richard Cheney.<\/p>\n

But as a broad description of Trump\u2019s overall approach to the world, the concept falls short in not only precision but also direction.<\/p>\n

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Trump lectures the world at the U.N. last September. (Screenshot from Whitehouse.gov)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How Trump is Reshaping US Foreign Policy Trump\u2019s policies are shaping America\u2019s relationship with the world in major ways even if those policies don\u2019t exhibit a consistent strategy, observes Paul Pillar. The urge within the commentariat to describe every president\u2019s foreign policy in terms of some clearly defined doctrine is as strong as ever, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,7844,9547,827,1174],"class_list":["post-35909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-paul-pillar","tag-united-states","tag-us-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35910,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35909\/revisions\/35910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}