Alliances and Power Politics in the Trump Era

This volume examines the evolution of US foreign policy since Donald Trump's accession to the presidency and the strategic challenges confronting the United States in a changing geopolitical environment. Trump has delivered on his promises to break with past policies and this has, for the most part, revealed a policy of retrenchment that has jeopardized US alliances. The book focuses on the current state and future of transatlantic relations, on Washington's policy in the Middle East and Africa, on the administration's use of the economic weapon in international relations, but also on the American response to the return of great power competition in the face of an assertive China and resurgent Russia. The contributions gather the inputs of a transatlantic community of scholars combining academics, think-tank fellows, former policy-makers and administration officials from both sides of the Atlantic.

Provides a transatlantic perspective, including scholars from the US, Europe and Canada Analyses previously unexamined aspects of US foreign policy under the Trump administration Considers the nature of the US-China relationship through both a historical and a prospective prism Discusses the future of warfare and the Russian challenge in cyberspace

Autorentext

Maud Quessard is Associate Professor of US Foreign Policy and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Research at the Paris Military School (IRSEM), France.
Frédéric Heurtebize is Associate Professor of US History and Politics at the University of Paris Nanterre, France.

Frédérick Gagnon is Professor, holder of the Raoul Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies, and Director of the Center for United States Studies at the University of Québec, Canada.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. America's Surprisingly "Constrained" Presidency: Implications for Transatlantic Relations.- 3. The evolving transatlantic link: what European response? Disentangling the European security debate.- 4. Polish-US Relations in the Trump Era: from Worries to Honeymoon?.- 5. "If I forget thee O Jerusalem".- 6. The Two Faces of U.S Counterterrorism Under Trump.- 7. Hand in hand and eye to eye? U.S.-French Counterterrorism Cooperation in the Sahel in the Trump-Macron Era.- 8. The China Dream: America's, China's and the Resulting Competition.- 9. Deterrence and Dialogue: The US-South Korea Alliance in Search of a New Lease of Life in the Face of Kim Jong-Un's "Nuclear Diplomacy".- 10. Challenging America and the West: A Russian Cyberstrategy?.- 11. Business First: Trump's Economic Measures as Offensive Weaponry .- 12. Trump's US Foreign Policy and Latin American Multilateralism: An Assessment of Words and Deeds.- 13. Breakpoint in Time: Donald Trump's Trade Policy Towards Canada