Publication

Sep 2017

This publication contends that US grand strategy is at a crossroads. Washington may continue to pursue internationalism, as most of the country’s conservative national security establishment would prefer. However, Donald Trump’s election and his embrace of populist conservative nationalism could mean that the US will turn its back on the liberal world order. Either way, suggests this text´s author, the debates currently raging within the Trump administration will do much to determine which direction the US will eventually take, with significant consequences for the global order.

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Author Jack Thompson (Editor: Matthias Bieri)
Series CSS Analysis in Security Policy
Issue 212
Publisher Center for Security Studies (CSS)
Copyright © 2017 Center for Security Studies (CSS)
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